m**c 发帖数: 7349 | 1 He discovered that in 1879, Hillary's great-grandfather Jonathan Rodham was
working in the mines that ran like veins through the County Durham
countryside.
The 36-year-old was an overman, the third in rank of the officers down the
pit.
He would have been in charge of safety by looking at air currents, and
responsible for deploying the miners so they got as much coal out of the
seam as possible.
Things were not easy.
"In the late 19th Century life in this area was very hard," Mr Hair said. |
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