This is to remember the Coal Miners who made the industrial revolution possible with their blood and tears digging their way in the deep dark coal faces. It created finely knit communities of people helping each other under enormous hardship and was the foundation of the steel industry which later followed. The amount of rock an coal they moved is hard to imagine, to say the ground of the North East stands on pillars is not far from the truth, they even when from many miles under the North Sea. Yet they estimate there is still enough coal left for 200 years energy.

The work costed many lives and they the wages were poor, often the pit pony's had a higher value that the people though that changed after 1900 quickly. By the time the safety, wages and living conditions improved, the Government made them all non-employed causing bloody protests. Even today communities are still suffering from the backlash in the eighties.