Mostyn Memories: Miners from Point of Ayr Colliery
THE Mostyn History Preservation Society was pleased to receive a photograph showing men from The Squares Mostyn on their way home from the Point of Ayr Colliery in 1900.
The round trip from Talacre to Mostyn was seven miles and each man paid 2d per day to the owner of the trap William Davies of the Squares.
The men would have course all be looking forward to a wash in front of the fire, there were no pithead baths then, a meal, a rest and possibly the odd pint!
The picture shows Mostyn miners on their way home from the Point of Ayr Colliery. From left, Thomas Whitley, Edward Whitley, Peers Jones, Edward Price, Daniel Hughes, William Davies, owner and driver, Ernest Parry and William Roberts, all of Mostyn.
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just like to see anyone i know at the pit where i once worked