Black Diamonds (73 page)

‘The ponies knew …’: Bullock,
Bowers Row
, p. 197.

‘I could write …’: ibid., p. 201.

‘I know that …’: Smith, ‘We asked them for bread’.

p. 247 ‘
The worst accidents
…’: Bullock,
Bowers Row
, p. 197.

‘In 1925 …’:
Mexborough and Swinton Times
, 26 March 1926.

‘You would …’: Bullock,
Bowers Row
, p. 198.

‘Fortunately …’: ibid., p. 195.

‘The older lads …’: ibid., p. 197.

p. 248 ‘
I remember
…’: Frank Johnson, interviewed by Brian Elliott,
Yorkshire Mining Veterans
, Wharncliffe Books, 2005, p. 85.

‘I should not be living …’: Arthur Clayton, interviewed by Brian Elliott, ibid., p. 21.

‘Lord Fitzwilliam’s …’: author’s interview with Joyce Smith, April 2004.

p. 249 ‘
There used to be
…’: author’s interview with Ralph Boreham, August 2005.

‘We’d play cricket …’: author’s interview with Ernest Whit-worth, August 2005.

‘He said …’: author’s interview with Geoffrey Steer, August 2005.

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR

p. 250 ‘
SECRET
…’: Public Records Office, Kew, WO 30/143.

p. 251 ‘
Most people
…’: Lady Bentinck to Lady Halifax, 10 June 1926, Hickleton Papers, Borthwick Institute for Archives, University of York, A2.280.2.

p. 252 ‘
Lord Portarlington
…’: Lady Sybil Middleton to Lady Halifax, 24 May 1926, ibid.

‘The Horse Guards …’: Mabel, Countess Grey, to Lady Halifax, 12 May 1926, ibid.

‘Rex is …’: Lady Sybil Middleton to Lady Halifax, 24 May 1926, ibid.

‘I was in despair …’: Lady Bentinck to Lady Halifax, 10 June 1926, ibid.

p. 253 ‘
Instead of me
…’: Lady Mary Clive,
Brought Up and Brought Out
, Cobden-Sanderson, 1938, p. 162.

‘When they …’: ibid., p. 165.

‘It was of course …’: ibid., p. 163.

‘Our triumph …’: ibid., p. 167.

p. 254 ‘
The washing water
…’: ibid.

‘As soon as …’: Lady Sybil Middleton to Lady Halifax, 24 May 1926, Hickleton Papers, Borthwick Institute for Archives, University of York, A2.280.2.

p. 255 ‘
The shop girls
…’: Lady Mary Clive,
Brought Up and Brought Out
, p. 169.

‘As Thomas Jones …’: Keith Jeffrey and Peter Hennessy,
States of Emergency
, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983, p. 122.

p. 256 ‘
A total of 4,000
…’: A. J. P. Taylor,
English History 1914–1945
, Oxford University Press, paperback edition, 1992, p. 245.

‘An MI5 report …’: Public Records Office, Kew, HO 144/6116.

‘The result of the GS …’: Lord Birkenhead to Lord Irwin, 30 May 1926, cited in John Campbell,
F. E. Smith
, Jonathan Cape, 1983, p. 775.

p. 257 ‘
This coal trouble
…’: Lady Bentinck to Lady Halifax, 10 June 1926, Hickleton Papers, Borthwick Institute for Archives, University of York, A2.280.2.

‘Britain’s colliers …’: George Hall, created Viscount Hall in 1946, Emergency House of Commons debate, 3 May 1926.

p. 258 ‘
Writing to
…’: Miss Brodigan to Stanley Baldwin, 19 June 1926, Public Records Office, Kew, CAB 21/296.

‘Blaina …’: report attached to letter above, ibid.

p. 259 ‘
In 1870
…’: R. Page Arnot,
The Miners: Years of Struggle
, George Allen & Unwin, 1953, p. 526.

p. 260 ‘
By the mid-1920s
…’: ibid., p. 354.

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

p. 262 ‘
I hawe gotta
…’: Roger Dataller (pseud.),
From a Pitman’s Notebook
, Jonathan Cape, 1925, pp. 208–9.

p. 263 ‘
The Fitzwilliams were liked
…’: author’s interview with May Bailey, June 2004.

‘If anyone went without …’: author’s interview with Gracie Woodcock, June 2004.

‘I’ll slay …’:
Mexborough and Swinton Times
, 28 May 1926.

‘We called her Lady Bountiful …’: author’s interview with Bert May, September 2004.

‘When the Vicar …’: Roy Young,
The Big House and the Little Village
, Wentworth Garden Centre, 2000, p. 137.

p. 264 ‘
All the mothers
…’: author’s interview with May Bailey, June 2004.

‘Lady Maud …’: author’s interview with Rita King, August 2005.

‘The calves’ foot …’: family recipe book. Private Collection.

p. 265 ‘
They had these huge set pots
…’: author’s interview with May Bailey, June 2004.

‘Acting upon …’:
The Times
, 13 September 1911.

p. 266 ‘
Most people ran out
…’: Luke Evans, unpublished memoir, Doncaster Library, Local Studies Section.

‘It was clog and boot …’: Ernest Kaye, interviewed by Brian Elliott,
Yorkshire Mining Veterans
, Wharncliffe Books, 2005, p. 55.

‘I can remember …’: Jack Parkin, ibid.

p. 267 ‘
The owners
…’: Lord Londonderry to Winston Churchill, Churchill Papers, Churchill College, Cambridge, Char 18/28.

‘It would be possible …’: Lord Birkenhead to Lord Irwin, 30 May 1926, cited in John Campbell,
F. E. Smith
, Jonathan Cape, 1983, p. 775.

p. 268 ‘
Coal, iron and steel
…’: Quentin Outram,
Class Warriors: The Coalowners, Industrial Relations and the 1926 Mining Lockout: The Struggle for Dignity
, ed. J. McIlroy, A. Campbell and K. Gildart, University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 2004, pp. 107–35.

‘With the exception of one …’: ibid.

p. 269 ‘
Evan Williams
…’: cited in Martin Gilbert,
Winston S. Churchill
, Heinemann, 1976, vol. 5, p. 185.

p. 270 ‘
I spent
…’: Miss Brodigan to Stanley Baldwin, 19 June 1926, Public Records Office, Kew, CAB 21/296.

‘You say that …’: Winston Churchill to Lord Londonderry, 3 November 1926, Churchill Papers, Churchill College, Cambridge, Char 18/28.

p. 271 ‘
It would seem
…’: Churchill to Stanley Baldwin, 10 September 1926, quoted in Gilbert,
Winston S. Churchill
, p. 202.

‘I am not happy …’: telegram from Lord Birkenhead to Winston Churchill, ibid., p. 203.

‘The Moscow …’: ibid., p. 220.

p. 272 ‘
The whole machinery
…’: Stanley Baldwin, Emergency Debate in the House of Commons, 3 May 1926.

‘If wages are …’: ibid.

p. 273 ‘
Well?
…’: Roger Dataller (pseud.), ‘From a miner’s journal’,
Adelphi
magazine, vol. 11, No. 2, July 1924.

p. 274 ‘
Through forces
…’: cited in R. Page Arnot,
The Miners: Years of Struggle
, George Allen & Unwin, 1953, p. 533.

‘We never forgot …’: conversation with Jack Steer, recorded by John Wrigley in 1966.

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX

p. 275 ‘
Morning Prayers were a chance
…’: author’s interview with May Bailey, February 2004.

p. 276 ‘
By golly
…’: author’s interview with Bert May, March 2004.

p. 277 ‘
I was a choir boy
…’: author’s interview with Charles Booth, February 2006.

‘He was a grand fellow …’: author’s interview with Walker Scales, May 2004.

p. 278 ‘
He were a friend
…’: author’s interview with Walt Hammond, August 2005.

‘We could have …’: ibid.

‘He’d mix around …’: author’s interview with May Bailey, February 2004.

‘Everyone used to come …’: author’s interview with Walker Scales, May 2004.

p. 279 ‘
He never went anywhere
…’: author’s interview with Peter Diggle, June 2004.

‘God lived in’t big house …’: author’s interview with Jim McGuinness, July 2004.

‘There were a lot of talk …’: author’s interview with Walt Hammond, August 2006.

‘There was a boy …’: author’s interview with Bert May, March 2004.

‘His Lordship …’: ibid.

p. 280 ‘
My grandmother
…’: author’s interview with David Sylvester, January 2006.

‘Lord Milton …’: ibid.

p. 281 ‘
Ooh, Lord Milton
…’: author’s interview with May Bailey, June 2004.

‘I started down the mine …’: author’s interview with Jim McGuinness, July 2004.

‘She was a notable girl …’: author’s interview with Walker Scales, September 2004.

p. 282 ‘
All the boys in the village
…’: author’s interview with May Bailey, June 2004.

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN

p. 286 ‘
Dear Jim
…’: Billy Fitzwilliam to Jim Landon, 8 May 1931. Private Collection.

‘It were his father …’: author’s interview with Walt Hammond, August 2005.

p. 287 ‘
Aside from
…’:
The Times
, 10 June 1931.

p. 288 ‘
There are
…’: minutes of Milton Committee Meeting, 10 June 1931. Private Collection.

‘Once a year …’: author’s interview with Roy Young, May 2004.

p. 289 ‘
Captain North began
…’: minutes of Milton Committee Meeting, 10 June 1931. Private Collection.

p. 290 ‘
Admiral Hugh Douglas
…’: ibid.

‘
Tout passe
…’: Duke of Portland,
Men, Women and Things
, Faber and Faber, 1937, pp. 1 and 2.

‘in the years immediately …’: David Cannadine,
The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy
, Yale University Press, 1990.

p. 291 ‘
A silent revolution
…’: cited ibid., p. 111.

‘One, Sudbrooke Holme …’: cited ibid., p. 119.

‘If I close …’: Frances, Countess of Warwick,
Afterthoughts
, Cassell and Co., 1931, p. 247.