Local Folk Songs (General)

by slowhands , proud of his ancient Dean Forest roots, Monday, July 12, 2010, 09:52 (5325 days ago) @ unknown

http://www.bobsmithmusic.co.uk/music.htm

Forest-Americana "roots rock rebel with a country twang" singer-songwriter Bob Smith
plays the Bailey Inn in Yorkley tomorrow, and the Royal Oak in Whitecroft on Saturday.
Ex-Demob punk singer Bob's politically charged album This Is The Story, which features
a song about the 1902 Union mine disaster in the Forest, was released earlier this year.

..... the Union Mine where 4 miners were drowned in Sept 1902. Water broke into the Union from the old Hopewell Colliery in Fetter Hill (Note: Not the Hopewell Colliery a mile or so away that is now open as a museum). Despite much valiant effort the men could not be saved. The Union had been a reasonably productive pit with main roadways stretching almost 2 miles away from pit bottom however although it did reopen after the flooding it was closed by approx 1916. The site is now cleared and a monument to the dead miners is mounted on the concrete cap over the old shaft.

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Ἀριστοτέλης A Gloster & Hereford Boy in the Forest of Dean ><((((*>