Blackleg Miner

Using the Steeleye Span song to illustrate attitudes in Coal Mining villages

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Music

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• Foxburg
• miner
• coal
• shp

[viking1au]

You got the artists wrong.! This is early (pre Martin Carthy) days of STEELEYE SPAN, either from Hark; The Village Wait, or Please to See The King album. --- Sounds like Tim Hart singing. --- PS--- Dont make me look out my original albums.

[Foxburg]

I ripped this off 'A Stack of Steeleye Span' you are correct it is pre Carthy. Line up : Hart,Prior, Hutchings, Woods and Woods

[WEEDYJ1994]

mr eliot talks a lot of crap

[Foxburg]

Who is Mr Eliot?

[katherine232]

"So you are against "Black legs" what are immigrants"

You obviously do not know what the term 'blackleg' means in this song!!!!

[Paul1834]

The song dates from the 19th century - conditions were deadly: fire, explosion, pit collapses or more slowly by the workforce breathing coal dust.

Instances of picket line violence were tiny compared to the people/families devastated by workers spines (and other bones) broken at work, lungs clogged up or those just dismissed for having the effrontery of joining a trade union or taking any progressive political stance. Life is (and was) rarely as black and white as you have pitched it here.

[padraigpurseal]

Terry and Gay woods you never lost it God theres a memory thank you for the post

[Anekantavad]

Love the shots of the kids and the miners at work. Solid, solid people.

[petertownend]

@yetiflicker i agree mate if it was not for the scabby cunts the pits would still be open,hope thatcher suffers a painfull death.

[edsternet]

A good production, well done.

Thanks for posting it.

[Welshman2008]

most scabs and blacklegs still live in nottingham

[Welshman2008]

most scabs come from Nottingham.

[Welshman2008]

most scabs come from nottingham

[TheMightOfTheEnglish]

@atfatw a good thing ? you say, tell that to the victims of agent orange and every other country were you stuck your nose in,,get off your high horse , bloody hell , you only have to look at your govenments involvement in breaking strikes, your countries treatment of the blacks , your the biggest imperialists of the lot , you use your banks when you dont use your army. have you seen detriot lately , the motor city without a motor industry ,like us all your industry has gone abroad for profit

[TheMightOfTheEnglish]

@atfatw what a stupid comment, i see your an american,,without our empire ,you wouldnt have america mate, and be speaking either french or spanish, and why did america want an end to our empire, so america could move in with their influence , it took you 2 years to get involved in ww2,cowardly lot haha , look at americas invovement in civilisation, since ww2 , korea,vietnam their obsession in defeating communisim, interferring in south america, propping up right wing juntas ,a good thing???

[23018484]

@3tangle3 Hi,  " blackleg" is an older word for a scab.