Thousands of black miners worked in Britain’s pits from the 1950s onward – and a modern project has discovered that while racism was accepted above ground,deep underground there was no divideOne of the things that attracted Fitzalbert Taylor to becoming a coal miner was the warmth. “It was like Id emigrated to a different country down there, says the 88-year-old. “It was so warm. When I was in the building trade, and I couldn’t feel my arms or my legs – donkey jacket,two pairs of trousers and you were still cold.”Taylor moved to the UK from Jamaica in 1954 when he was 26, and spent 25 years working as a miner. Now he has joined approximately 20 men who are involved in a project that aims to record the experiences of black miners in the UK – Coal Miners of African Heritage: Narratives from Nottinghamshire.
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Source: theguardian.com