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father and his judgement.
Finally, John had transferred to another pit
and he was offered a nice house and they were
glad of the move. Travelling in their aunt’s car
made the children remember Mr Simmons and
their mother, as they looked out of the window
and down the street leaving the house that
they had lived at. April remembered waving at
her mother’s sister from Mr Simmons’ sweet
smelling car.
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The area that the family was moving to was
lovely, they could see farms and corn fields, there
were large houses, and then a row of pit houses,
one of them being their new home. Further up
was a lane leading to the pit, the railway was
close by, and the opposite direction about a mile
down the road were shops and a village hall and
a nice little church. The families new house was
large enough for the children. There was a large
family room, a kitchen and enough bedrooms
for the older children to sleep separate from the
younger ones and for John and Betty to have
their own room.
All through this time Daisy was still searching
for both John and her children.
Now that John, Betty and the children had
moved to a little village with a small population
and the strong smell of fresh farmland travelling