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Radio Shropshire,22 mins

The Granville Boys join Jim Hawkins in the Cool Seat.

Jim Hawkins

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Cliff Hewitt and Stewart Braddock are known as the Granville Boys as they both spent many years working in the Granville Colliery – Shropshire’s last working mine which closed in 1979. Cliff and Stewart paint a picture of a world involving dangerous, heavy work but great comaraderie amongst the miners.

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