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CHAPTER ITHE EARLY MARRIED LIFE OF THEMORELS
‘THE BOTTOMS’ succeeded to ‘Hell Row". HellRow was a block of thatched, bulging cottages that stoodby the brookside on Greenhill Lane. There lived thecolliers who worked in the little gin-pits two fields away.The brook ran under the alder trees, scarcely soiled bythese small mines, whose coal was drawn to the surface bydonkeys that plodded wearily in a circle round a gin. Andall over the countryside were these same pits, some of which had been worked in the time of Charles II, the fewcolliers and the donkeys burrowing down like ants intothe earth, making queer mounds and little black placesamong the corn-fields and the meadows. And the cottagesof these coal-miners, in blocks and pairs here and there,together with odd farms and homes of the stockingers,straying over the parish, formed the village of Bestwood.Then, some sixty years ago, a sudden change tookplace. The gin-pits were elbowed aside by the large minesof the financiers. The coal and iron field of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire was discovered. Carston,
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