Quote by Barbara Castle
He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining

He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit. – Barbara Castle

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