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The family of a former pit worker has been reunited with his retirement lamp, thanks to a passionate restorer who chose sentiment over profit. Kev Pattison bought the lamp dedicated to Les Bausor, who ...

I grew up in South Wales and was surrounded by the coal mining industry. Journeys always had a back drop of pit heads and slag heaps. The work of the miners was arduous, dirty and some times fatal. In ...

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Kev Pattison, 73, bought the brass lamp dedicated to the late miner Les Bausor, who once worked Bolsover Colliery in Derbyshire, earlier this year on eBay. After cleaning it up, the grandad - who ...

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