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Old 29th June 2017, 10:10
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Two fathers each with a son. Terrible and always prompts the question as to why the pit communities fought so hard to keep such a ghastly business.

Surely not coal gas but methane or 'fire damp'. Coal gas is largely H2 and CO mixture produced by heating coal (usually by man but I suppose it might result from an underground fire) AKA 'town gas'.
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Lord Finchley tried to mend the electric light
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