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Monday, 28 December 2009 15:18 Alex Hartley Culture

A poem by talented local poet John J Nutter, who will be have a book out to buy at local shops sometime in the new year (some of the cover price is being donated to charity). I'll update this post as soon as I find out more details.

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A Story of the Pretoria Pit Disaster

Monday, 28 September 2009 09:54 Alex Hartley Culture

Realeased on the 7th September, this book about the Pretoria Pit disaster has just been brought to out attention. The author Andrea Finney describes it as:

"a true story based on the life of my Gt Gt Grandmother Elizabeth Gore who lost her son in the disaster in 1910 - and how the pit disaster effected the lives of the communities. I have also liaised with the Editor in Chief at Bolton News and included in the book is the reports on the days following the disaster by a reporter at the scene nearly 100 years ago."

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