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30 Dec 02 - 07:53 PM (#855612) Subject: nova scotia pit disaster From: GUEST,andy does anyone have the words to a song about a disaster at the Nova Scotia pit in Co. Durham which has a chorus.......
Dull black crepe over waving gold, Fifty dead is the yearly reconing, fifty killed ere they grow old. |
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30 Dec 02 - 08:01 PM (#855625) Subject: RE: nova scotia pit disaster From: John Routledge Andy Written by Jock Purdom who wrote several songs about Cosha pit. Sorry can't remember the words!! Great song. |
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31 Dec 02 - 09:46 AM (#855903) Subject: RE: nova scotia pit disaster From: GUEST,MCP Andy Jock Purdon was the writer of "Farewell to 'Cotia" (the song I mentioned to you last week) and also wrote a song called "The Cotia Banner" (not the song you want), both of which are in Lloyd's "Come All Ye Bold Miners". There's a book of his songs (Songs of The Durham Coalfield, or something similar) which may contain the song you want. (That's available from Mally's online if you want it. I thought I had a copy, but, as I can't find it, apparently I don't, so I can't check). Mick |
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02 Jan 03 - 01:30 PM (#857341) Subject: RE: nova scotia pit disaster From: John Routledge Andy - I have seen Jock Purdon's book and I am pretty sure 'Cotia Banner is not in it. Worth confirming if you don't otherwise need the book. Good Luck |
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13 Dec 17 - 02:17 AM (#3893642) Subject: RE: nova scotia pit disaster From: GUEST Jim Foster. I too remember this moving song. The first verse was; Johnny was chosen to carry the banner, through to Durham that Saturday. Men go marching,his mother's grieving. She has given his claes away. I also recall a slightly different chorus. |
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13 Dec 17 - 03:33 AM (#3893648) Subject: RE: nova scotia pit disaster From: Dave Sutherland It was written by a former miner and Birtley Folk Club resident Ned Booth. Ned died around 1975; I used to have the words on a Xeroxed songbook published by the club sometime in the early sixties but it got lost in one of the South Tyne Folk and Blues moves. Possibly some of the remaining members of Birtley from those days, Doreen and Brian maybe, could have the words somewhere. |
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13 Dec 17 - 10:50 AM (#3893747) Subject: RE: nova scotia pit disaster From: GUEST No Co. Durham in Nova Scotia ??? |
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13 Dec 17 - 11:07 AM (#3893751) Subject: RE: nova scotia pit disaster From: Dave Hanson Springhill Mine Disaster was in Nova Scotia. [ MacColl/ Seeger ] Dave H |
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13 Dec 17 - 11:52 AM (#3893760) Subject: RE: nova scotia pit disaster From: Tattie Bogle Try Jim Bainbridge who sometimes posts on here? |
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13 Dec 17 - 02:22 PM (#3893780) Subject: RE: nova scotia pit disaster From: Joe Offer This page (click) gives information about the 1817 disaster at the Nova Scotia Pit in County Durham. |
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13 Dec 17 - 04:25 PM (#3893819) Subject: RE: nova scotia pit disaster From: GUEST None of those place names exist in Nova Scotia except Durham which ias a community, not a county. |
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14 Dec 17 - 12:53 AM (#3893881) Subject: RE: nova scotia pit disaster From: Joe Offer This Nova Scotia Pit is/was in England. |
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14 Dec 17 - 03:13 AM (#3893888) Subject: RE: nova scotia pit disaster From: Dave Sutherland The "Cosia" pit was Harraton Colliery - Pete Wood has a chapter dedicated to it in his book "The Elliotts of Birtley" |