Tommy Turnbull

Joe Robinson's grandfather was a Durham miner. Growing up in the gritty North East, only two miles from Durham city, he headed down t'pit when fourteen and retired through ill-health and died in 1982. He survived the Depression years and this earthy biography tells his story underground working in the dangerous Durham coalfield. With a foreword by the Rt Hon. Tony Benn MP, Tomy Turnbull's story is told with passion. Mining has always been a dangerous activity and Tommy Turnbull's story is similar to that of almost half a million men who once worked in Britain's coalfields.

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My name is Tommy Turnbull. I've been a coalminer all my life. My father was a miner, so was my grandfather, my uncles, my cousins and my brother. Wherever there's a pit, you can bet there'll be a Turnbull somewhere down there.