Dinner given by Frances Marchioness of Londonderry to Pitmen, on Chilton Moor, 1856. A 'great festal meeting' at a coalmine between Sunderland and Seaham in the north of England. Chilton was '...the largest colliery property in England in the hands of one an average approaching one million tons of coal per finer body of men than those 3000 sturdy pitmen who turned out at the bidding of their noble mistress could not have been assembled in any agricultural or manufacturing district in the walls were hung with coloured were thirty ta
Dinner given by Frances Marchioness of Londonderry to Pitmen, on Chilton Moor, 1856. A 'great festal meeting' at a coalmine between Sunderland and Seaham in the north of England. Chilton was '...the largest colliery property in England in the hands of one an average approaching one million tons of coal per finer body of men than those 3000 sturdy pitmen who turned out at the bidding of their noble mistress could not have been assembled in any agricultural or manufacturing district in the walls were hung with coloured were thirty affording seats for ninety men [who sat beneath] banners inscribed with the names of their respective Marchioness proceeded with emphasis and marked feeling to address the '. From "Illustrated London News", 1856.
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