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Bag Muck
Young Tom Brocklesby starts work at the age of 12 as a trapper in Cadeby Colliery. He overcomes his terror of the pit and makes plans to get a better job by going to Night School. His self-improvement is noticed by Gertie Holdsworth, a Sunday School teacher, and soon they are walking out together – but their plans are set back by the Bag Muck Strike and its devastating consequences.
Note that this is a revised and enlarged edition of a book that was first published as Dahn't Pit (which is an incorrect punctuation of the Yorkshire dialect!). This edition corrects that, as well as a number of other dialect errors and some minor errors of historical detail.
The complete Dahn t' Pit trilogy is available as a paperback.
Note that this is a revised and enlarged edition of a book that was first published as Dahn't Pit (which is an incorrect punctuation of the Yorkshire dialect!). This edition corrects that, as well as a number of other dialect errors and some minor errors of historical detail.
The complete Dahn t' Pit trilogy is available as a paperback.
146 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 6, 2016
About the author
Christopher Webster
131 books2 followersI was brought up in Conisbrough, went to Station Road School, and have lived at various times on Daylands Avenue, Roberts Avenue and Castle Avenue. The town, with its rich history and magnificent castle, has been an important influence in my life and has inspired some of my best work. I read English at St David’s, Lampeter and Leeds University, and am now a teacher and writer.
I started by writing poetry, but nobody read it, so I tried another of my interests: Dark Age fiction: Anglo-Saxons, Vikings and so on. I know what you're thinking (get a life!) but it's a popular niche, and I found that people were actually reading my books. I also write Science Fiction, Jane Austen sequels, all sorts of other stuff... and more poetry (poetry is like a drug for me and I can't give it up). I also write education publications, mainly study notes, which sell far more than anything else I write. Every now and then I return to my major project which is a Dark Age Pentalogy intended to be 1000+ pages long (it's a prose version of my book, Angleland, which is available in etext and paperback). I'm up to page 25 at the moment (just kidding! I have a draft of the whole thing, but it's going to take a lot more long and lonely nights to make it readable).
I started by writing poetry, but nobody read it, so I tried another of my interests: Dark Age fiction: Anglo-Saxons, Vikings and so on. I know what you're thinking (get a life!) but it's a popular niche, and I found that people were actually reading my books. I also write Science Fiction, Jane Austen sequels, all sorts of other stuff... and more poetry (poetry is like a drug for me and I can't give it up). I also write education publications, mainly study notes, which sell far more than anything else I write. Every now and then I return to my major project which is a Dark Age Pentalogy intended to be 1000+ pages long (it's a prose version of my book, Angleland, which is available in etext and paperback). I'm up to page 25 at the moment (just kidding! I have a draft of the whole thing, but it's going to take a lot more long and lonely nights to make it readable).
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