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History What is a Collier? from Colliers and I This month we featre an exact om the book Colliers and I, 30 Years Working Among Derbyshire Colliers by F.J. Metcalfe, Rector of Killamarsh, published in 1903. Metcalfe Avenue in Killamarsh is named aſter him. “ Having lived and worked unceasingly day and night among colliers for thirty years, I feel I need offer no apology for making posive statements about their characters, their manners and their customs as a whole, and as divided into classes, and as individuals. The general idea of colliers as expressed by those who know nothing about them is absolutely wrong. I have oen been asked how I can live among such a rough, unculvated, half savage lot as colliers? There could not be a more false judgement. The rough, unculvated, half savage element is to be found among all classes of society. The aristocracy are not free from scandals, and there have been many revelaons of such scandals in the public press that thousands of colliers would be ashamed of. There is no class of men more interesng, no class among whom are to be found more of Nature’s gentlemen, than among the colliers, and it is among them that I am proud to reckon my best and truest friends. They have their faults and in these pages I shall not hide them. They have their virtues, and it is one intenon of this work to proclaim them. opponents of his ‘favourite team’. All colliers have a very great opinion of their own importance, neither will they admit that anyone knows anything about what ‘a day’s work’ is but themselves. As to anyone knowing what work is, if they don’t go to the pit, why it’s absurd. It is quite one of the faceous remarks if they see anyone, not a collier, gardening a bit to say, “I see yer do a bit o’ wark somemes”. No one is so easily offended as a collier, and he takes precious good care to let you know it, although it will very likely be months before you will find what he imagines you have done to him, and then, as likely as not, it has been caused by the idle tale of some gossiping woman. One of the worst features of a collier is that he finds its very hard to forgive, and he never forgets even an imaginary injury, and if at any future me a quarrel is renewed, he brings up all the past with as much vigour as the new offence. On the other hand they do not easily forget a kindness done to them or their families. As a whole colliers are, as they pride themselves in being, ‘rough and ready’. They are not parcularly choice in their manner of speech, and when talking together use much language that would shock the ears of the most fasdious, but is thought nothing by them, and they would deeply resent it if you gently suggested to them that they were swearing.” The collier almost always has a hobby, a dog, a pigeon, some kind of flower, a bike; a collier’s hobby must be something that will bring about compeon. You never find a collier with a ‘dead’ hobby, he must be able to say to his companion “I bet thee I can win thee” to his companion. If colliers are free of speech they are also free with their money. A collier hates to be thought mean by the companions among whom he moves, he will spend his last penny treang his mate, if he has to pawn his shirt next morning to buy a loaf of bread. He shews up best in me of trouble and danger, and worst at a football match where his feelings are so excited and uncontrollable that he can shew no pleasure or even toleraon for the good play of the Another great fault of our colliers is that they are so very suspicious, and always ready to impart unworthy moves to the acons of other, and then shape their course accordingly. They cannot divest themselves of the idea that in everything you do you have some ulterior design of ‘geng something out of it. They have a standard of jusce of their own, by which they judge everything and everybody, and it is the standard of ‘eye for eye, tooth for tooth.” Wrien 120 years ago – diconary definion of collier is a coal miner. The grammar and spelling used in the book have been kept to in this arcle. PB 22 Doorsteppa Magazines www.thedoorsteppa.com | 0114 418 5359
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