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Radio Somerset,4 mins

"I had to wash my dad's blood off me"

Charlie Taylor

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Selwyn Rees tells Charlie what it was like working in Somerset's mines. Selwyn spent 11 years at the Writhlington Collieries near Radstock, before they closed in 1973.

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