Got The T-Shirt: Littleton Colliery Epitaph
Steph Spiers published this poem, which mourns the "death'' of a coal mine, in 1997.
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Arm in arm, we grieved today.
I’m glad my brothers are gone,
Never seeing such destruction.
Our shaft winding wheels are none,
Our brave menfolk all departed
No dirty faces blinking at the sun.
I’m glad my dad is dead.
I’m glad he never lived to see this day.
The whole of his life’s work gutted.
They’ve taken his soul away.
The Littleton Pit has gone,
Flattened back to clay.
