An Oral History of a Pit Village

With the arrival of William Baird & Co. in the 1860s, a strong mining community was established in Twechar, and it continued for over two centuries until the pit closures that followed the miners’ strike of 1984-1985. 

This oral history of a pit village project has forever captured the unique, rich, sometimes difficult, sometimes sad, sometimes funny, always heart-warming, community heritage.