Monday, 23 January 2017

Halesowen colliery, Worcestershire

A Miners' Superstition.

The colliery at Halesowen, Worcestershire, has been idle for two days through a superstitious fear that ill-luck would befall the miners who failed to cease work as a mark of respect for a comrade who had been killed. This has caused the large ironworks to be closed for three days.

Yorkshire Evening Post, 1st March 1920.

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