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"My Little Bit of Mining History"(By Betty Stewart nee Bertha Ward) Recently in The Blackcountryman magazine you mention that you are interested in other mines. I enclose my little bit of mining history - I was born in Daisy Bank and I will be last in my family to remember it personally. "During the coal strike of 1926 local works were having difficulty staying open because of coal shortage. My widowed grandmother* owned the ground opposite "The Old Bush" and she was urged by locals to open up a pit to supply locals with coal. Striking South Wales miners (two I think) came to sink and run the pit. I remember very well that when no-one was around on a Sunday, my cousin (who was a little older than me)and I would go over and look down. Coal went by barge from Darlaston or Moxley basin. Also later my father drove a lorry. This continued into the time of the Coal Strike in 1931. After they finished mining a coal boat was sliced into two and upended, it made a very nice sun-shade seat near to the bowling green. There were possibly two or more pits locally near to the Ship and Rainbow, only a short distance away. *My grandmother was Sarah Jane Ward - The Old Bush, Skidmore Road, Daisy Bank. She had 4 sons and 4 daughters and was widowed in 1909. The Old Bush was later sold to Joseph Adams in the 1930s.
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