Chester-le-Street - Solution

CHESTER-LE-STREET – SOLUTION

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SOURCE OF QUOTATION

Although born and raised in the vicinity of Glasgow, George ‘Jock’ Purdon, as one of the Bevin Boys who were conscripted to work in the coal mines of the United Kingdom from December 1943 until 1948, started working in the coal pits in Chester-le-Street, marrying and remaining there after the Second World War ended in 1945. With firsthand experience of both the hardships and the cameraderie that develop in such communities, he became known as “the miners’ poet” due to the large number of poems and songs that he wrote revealing the spirit of those plucky souls who man the coal face (“Jock Purdon”, [s.d.]). Purdon also poignantly described many of the mining disasters of the time, including the following: “Black rosette on the ’Scotia banner, Dull black crepe over waving gold, Fifty dead is the ... reckoning” (GUEST.Andy, 2008).     

REFERENCES

“Chester-le-Street”. [s.d.]. Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester-le-Street [2012, June 27].

GUEST.andy. 2008. “Nova Scotia pit disaster”. http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=55142 [2012, June 11].

“Jock Purdon”. [s.d.] Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jock_Purdon [2012, June 11].