His grandfather was a coalminer who kept a few pigs. |
Take Otgonbayar, an unemployed coalminer in the town of Nalaikh. |
An Appalachian coalminer happily poses next to a cherry-red truck, bought with compensation for his black lung disease. |
His father was a local man who had been a coalminer before being invalided in the First World War, his mother came from Yorkshire. |
The supporters of the arms were a coalminer and a steel worker. |
Before I set off for Yorkshire, I email her to request an interview with him, citing the fact that my own grandfather was a coalminer and union activist, and many of my close relatives were actively involved in the strike. |