As a son of a miner, this is so moving and emotional My late father lost his sight in a Colliery accident at the age of just 22 years old After being totally blind for 7 years, dad had pioneering surgery at St Thomas’s hospital in Cardiff, where 30 per cent vision was restored in one eye Having joined a local brass band at six years old, he went on to play in total for 67 years Such wonderful music x
No matter how many times I play this I always get goosebumps. This we played at my funeral as I enter the church. I may not have mining blood in my veins, like some, but I do have gratitude, admiration, compassion and total respect for all who who do. I live in the north east now and feel that this is where I belong. It took me a long time to get here but I love the area so much.
I'm from a family of steelworkers, engineers and carpenters but I still feel a huge connection to the miners being a socialist from Sheffield, former home of the NUM. We need a real return to working class politics in this country. Austerity is a political choice and has purposely failed the working class.
Im a great hyme singer. This is one of my favourites, along with "Thetford" and Amazing Grace. Spirituals both black and white. God bless and protect all miners, those in honesty Labour and those that are oppressed. Greetings from Yorkshire.
Nice to hear this again - played this many times whilst in the Gresford Colliery Band in the early 70's before moving on to Fairey's. Brings back some nice memories!
... and for those who appreciate the dedication, courage and comradeship of all those involved and the debt of gratitude we owe them all. Gresford is a wonderful tribute.
I'm ashamed to say I had never heard of this or your great-great uncle until I caught it featured in the BBC Radio 4 series 'Soul Music' recently. It's a good programme, but the one thing they never seem to do is play the entire featured piece all the way through without someone talking over it at some point - so I came here to listen to it properly. Lovely.
A beautiful piece of music which I first heard at Durham's Big Meetings in the 90s, and which has remained a poignant reminder of long gone pitmen I have known during my time spent living in County Durham. Salt of the earth lads! This Yorkshire lass salutes you.
God almighty, what a piece of music. I first heard it whilst stood right next to Knottingley Silver Band, who played it at the march to commemorate the closure of Kellingley Colliery, on 19 December 2015. I was riveted to the spot then, and it brings tears to my eyes now, in a way no other piece of music can. I'm listening to it today in memory of the 38 miners killed at Oxclose Colliery near Sunderland on 29 November 1805.
Just the best, the very best. Heard it at the 'Big Meeting' otherwise known as 'The Miner's Gala' beginning of July in Durham. I love going, it's an amazing day of celebration of what was, but also optimism of what is. A great reminder of solidarity and sharing together. To hear it in Durham Cathedral is magnificent. Very, very moving. When I went to see Ton Benn's film 'Last Will & Testament' in the cathedral last year, they played this just before the film. Everyone stood and there were many a tear, especially from me. Wonderful
When I was a boy , during the 1940s and 50s , there seemed to be a mining disaster every few months . I've never forgotten those days , terrible times for the people involved , whether it was in Yorkshire , Nottingshire , North East or Wales , it had a profound effect upon me , and this sort of memorial music always moves me .
My great great great Uncle, Boaz Griffiths was a Coal Miner in Chirk. Sadly he lost his life during the First World War. His Mum was born in Wrexham who were also a mining family, they emigrated from Ireland in the mid 1800s. Today we take life too for granted especially my generation where some of them are work shy, now days the government looks after them, but back then you had to work to provide for your family! It was either work long hours in the coal mine day in day out or end up in the workhouse.
Very reminiscent of the gravity of Beethoven's and Brahms slow symphonic movements. The counterpoint is masterful orchestration. This has tremendous impact on the emotions and soul. Such sadness and melancholy. An outstanding tribute to those stricken miners who died.
I WAS ONLY 4YRS OLD WHEN THIS HAPPENED BUT AS THE YEARS GO BY THE STORY CONTINUES TO HAUNT ME I LOST AN UNCLE IN THIS DISASTER THE STORIES AND PICTURES SEEN ON UTUBE TELL HOW CATASTROFIC THIS PERIOD WAS R.I.P. THOSE EMBEDED IN THE T
Gresford Lyrics Creator, who with marvellous design The world and all that is within did make; The lofty mountain, and the mine: Hear now our prayer for Jesu's sake. Lord of the oceans and the sky above, Whose wondrous grace has blessed us from our birth, Look with compassion, and with love On all who toil beneath the earth. They spend their lives in dark, with danger fraught, Remote from nature's beauties, far below, Winning the coal, oft dearly bought To drive the wheel, the hearth make glow. Now we remember miners who have died Trapped in the darkness of the earth's cold womb; Brave men to free them, vainly tried, Still their work-place remained their tomb. All who were shattered in explosion's blast Or overcome with fatal gas have slept, Or crushed neath stone, have breathed their last; And the bereaved, who for them wept. O Saviour Christ, who on the cruel tree For all mankind thy precious blood has shed; In Life Eternal trusting, we To thy safe keeping leave our dead.
Incredible. busy working on a short film for Elba Park and the end sequence will be ariel shots of the site and this is the perfect under bed to accompany the wonderful poem by Mavis Farrell The Soul of A Man
The image which appears at approximately 2:29 was taken by Denis Thorpe, the great English photographer. He was born in 1932 and his first photographic assignment was the Cresswell Disaster of 1950. I've had the pleasure of meeting him and we exchange occasional emails.
My dad worked at Gresford in the 30's. He left to join the army. l didn't know him personally, so l unfortunately l didn't get to hear about it first hand.
are you sure, andrew? i mean, illiteracy is the scourge of most people who live in coun cil houses. you never heard of a middle class illiterate, did you? to liberate th e working classes, you have to educate them. no government, including labour, would ever do that. yhou see, if you educate these people, you would soon have a nation of EDUCATED CRIMINALS. white collar and gold collar crime is the most insidious crime there is. a blue collar criminal will break into your house and rob your stereo and tellly. but a gold collar criminal will destroy YOU by misusing a computer. and with the loss of trade unionism, just look at all the poverty there is out there. crap wages and the like. no wonder people with blue collars have to turn to crime. the gold collar does not need to. he just does it out of greed. nothing else. toryism.
Is there aught we hold in common with the greedy parasite? Who would lash us into serfdom and would crush us with his might Is there anything left but to organise and fight? For the Union makes us strong Solidarity forever.... "Victory in the proletarian revolution cannot be achieved, and that revolution cannot be safeguarded, while there are reformists and Mensheviks in one’s ranks." -- Lenin.
does anyone know of that other unioin song which is sung to tannembaum? it goes something like ..... the red flag, the red flag, we'll keep the red flag flying. I would love to get the whole words, if possible. and johnny cash sang a lovely song which all trade unionists should also sing. i think it is called I wont go down,or something like that. it is on you tube.
it is called I WON'T BACK DOWN. pleaselisten to it a few times. i think it was composed by tom petty who passed away recently. but DO give it a spin on you tube. honestly, it is a lovely pro labour song.
As a son of a miner, this is so moving and emotional
My late father lost his sight in a Colliery accident at the age of just 22 years old
After being totally blind for 7 years, dad had pioneering surgery at St Thomas’s hospital in Cardiff, where 30 per cent vision was restored in one eye
Having joined a local brass band at six years old, he went on to play in total for 67 years
Such wonderful music x
May these hardworking family men rest in peace. Proper lads they are.
No matter how many times I play this I always get goosebumps. This we played at my funeral as I enter the church. I may not have mining blood in my veins, like some, but I do have gratitude, admiration, compassion and total respect for all who who do. I live in the north east now and feel that this is where I belong. It took me a long time to get here but I love the area so much.
Welcome Marra !
United we bargain, divided we beg.
going to an old chap’s funeral next week… this will be played… sad to see that age in history gone by… full of emotion, substance and meaning…
RIP all the 266 that lost their lives at Gresford 83 years ago today.
I'm from a family of steelworkers, engineers and carpenters but I still feel a huge connection to the miners being a socialist from Sheffield, former home of the NUM. We need a real return to working class politics in this country. Austerity is a political choice and has purposely failed the working class.
Sheffield! me too
Im a great hyme singer. This is one of my favourites, along with "Thetford" and Amazing Grace. Spirituals both black and white. God bless and protect all miners, those in honesty Labour and those that are oppressed. Greetings from Yorkshire.
Nice to hear this again - played this many times whilst in the Gresford Colliery Band in the early 70's before moving on to Fairey's. Brings back some nice memories!
Very powerful for any of us who grew up in mining families. Thanks for posting
... and for those who appreciate the dedication, courage and comradeship of all those involved and the debt of gratitude we owe them all. Gresford is a wonderful tribute.
Andy Cap I totally agree. It is really special for me too because my great great uncle Robert Saint was the person who composed it
You should be very proud - wonderful music treasured by all of us from mining communities.
I'm ashamed to say I had never heard of this or your great-great uncle until I caught it featured in the BBC Radio 4 series 'Soul Music' recently. It's a good programme, but the one thing they never seem to do is play the entire featured piece all the way through without someone talking over it at some point - so I came here to listen to it properly. Lovely.
A beautiful piece of music which I first heard at Durham's Big Meetings in the 90s, and which has remained a poignant reminder of long gone pitmen I have known during my time spent living in County Durham. Salt of the earth lads! This Yorkshire lass salutes you.
Love it put hairs on my neck stand up. R.i.p.lions of miners respect 😢
God almighty, what a piece of music. I first heard it whilst stood right next to Knottingley Silver Band, who played it at the march to commemorate the closure of Kellingley Colliery, on 19 December 2015. I was riveted to the spot then, and it brings tears to my eyes now, in a way no other piece of music can. I'm listening to it today in memory of the 38 miners killed at Oxclose Colliery near Sunderland on 29 November 1805.
Beautiful. Just beautiful.
Just the best, the very best. Heard it at the 'Big Meeting' otherwise known as 'The Miner's Gala' beginning of July in Durham. I love going, it's an amazing day of celebration of what was, but also optimism of what is. A great reminder of solidarity and sharing together. To hear it in Durham Cathedral is magnificent. Very, very moving. When I went to see Ton Benn's film 'Last Will & Testament' in the cathedral last year, they played this just before the film. Everyone stood and there were many a tear, especially from me. Wonderful
Kris Spencer Thank you for your lovely comment Kris, my father and my late husband were miners and Gresford never fails to move me to tears.
You must be very proud. x
I don't usually listen this type of music but when I heard this I stood up with tears in my eyes.it's a very moving piece .thank you.
One of the most beautiful pieces of music I have ever heard, stirs up so much emotion
Like aberfan better known for the wrong reasons I’m a former miner rest in peace boys
When I was a boy , during the 1940s and 50s , there seemed to be a mining disaster every few months . I've never forgotten those days , terrible times for the people involved , whether it was in Yorkshire , Nottingshire , North East or Wales , it had a profound effect upon me , and this sort of memorial music always moves me .
Belgium idem (Borinage, Pays Noir...)
@@e.c.9468 Thank you !
Best version that I have heard with striking photography, particularly the black and white one of the miner
My great great great Uncle, Boaz Griffiths was a Coal Miner in Chirk. Sadly he lost his life during the First World War. His Mum was born in Wrexham who were also a mining family, they emigrated from Ireland in the mid 1800s.
Today we take life too for granted especially my generation where some of them are work shy, now days the government looks after them, but back then you had to work to provide for your family! It was either work long hours in the coal mine day in day out or end up in the workhouse.
Thinking of you, your loss and your great great uncle. The exploited men that hued the power of this country.
Very reminiscent of the gravity of Beethoven's and Brahms slow symphonic movements. The counterpoint is masterful orchestration. This has tremendous impact on the emotions and soul. Such sadness and melancholy. An outstanding tribute to those stricken miners who died.
The past we inherit. The future we build.
Humbling and breathtaking all at once.
I WAS ONLY 4YRS OLD WHEN THIS HAPPENED BUT AS THE YEARS GO BY THE STORY CONTINUES TO HAUNT ME I LOST AN UNCLE IN THIS DISASTER THE STORIES AND PICTURES SEEN ON UTUBE TELL HOW CATASTROFIC THIS PERIOD WAS R.I.P. THOSE EMBEDED IN THE T
best version I've heard on here. I'm hoping one day a local brass band will post their version of this up here too. Thanks for posting.
Gresford Lyrics
Creator, who with marvellous design
The world and all that is within did make;
The lofty mountain, and the mine:
Hear now our prayer for Jesu's sake.
Lord of the oceans and the sky above,
Whose wondrous grace has blessed us from our birth,
Look with compassion, and with love
On all who toil beneath the earth.
They spend their lives in dark, with danger fraught,
Remote from nature's beauties, far below,
Winning the coal, oft dearly bought
To drive the wheel, the hearth make glow.
Now we remember miners who have died
Trapped in the darkness of the earth's cold womb;
Brave men to free them, vainly tried,
Still their work-place remained their tomb.
All who were shattered in explosion's blast
Or overcome with fatal gas have slept,
Or crushed neath stone, have breathed their last;
And the bereaved, who for them wept.
O Saviour Christ, who on the cruel tree
For all mankind thy precious blood has shed;
In Life Eternal trusting, we
To thy safe keeping leave our dead.
Thank you for putting up the words, I had neither seen nor heard
them 'till now.
thanks for this. but I think it wokrs best just as the the music
What a moving rendition!!
So beautiful...
WOW .simply amazing.
Bleddy ansome. All our mines have gone down here too!
Incredible. busy working on a short film for Elba Park and the end sequence will be ariel shots of the site and this is the perfect under bed to accompany the wonderful poem by Mavis Farrell The Soul of A Man
PLAYED BEAUTIFULLY AND ELIGENT.......GREAT EMOTION.....:-).......................................SOUN D EPIC !!!!!!
The image which appears at approximately 2:29 was taken by Denis Thorpe, the great English photographer. He was born in 1932 and his first photographic assignment was the Cresswell Disaster of 1950. I've had the pleasure of meeting him and we exchange occasional emails.
Composed for the gresford Mining disaster which happened only a 2 miles from where I live
I'm the son of a Miner, nowadays we tolerate the so called 'gig economy'. What have we become???
Haven't "become" anything. Slaves then, still slaves today.
My dad worked at Gresford in the 30's. He left to join the army. l didn't know him personally, so l unfortunately l didn't get to hear about it first hand.
On the day of the Durham Big Meeting it seems appropriate to hear this again.
The cornet, magical.
The expression on the face of the miner at 2 minutes 30 seconds speaks volumes.
Thank You my dear.
Like a organ!
unity and strength for the working class ¡¡ class brothers forever
Whoops should read 'will be played at my funeral'.
Every mining community knows the price of coal.
Good.tune
Very moving.
My paternal grandfather was a miner in the Yorkshire Coalfield and in my imagination, any of the men at 0:55 could be him.
i meant beat
andrewrd2002 - if you go to the right-hand end of your comment, you can edit it i.e. change bear > beat HTH
Top.tune
I like the picture at 0.56 but cannot make out the colliery from the sign. Is it Eppleton? and is the photograph available to have a copy?
you cant bear working class culture
are you sure, andrew? i mean, illiteracy is the scourge of most people who live in coun cil houses. you never heard of a middle class illiterate, did you? to liberate th e working classes, you have to educate them. no government, including labour, would ever do that. yhou see, if you educate these people, you would soon have a nation of EDUCATED CRIMINALS. white collar and gold collar crime is the most insidious crime there is. a blue collar criminal will break into your house and rob your stereo and tellly. but a gold collar criminal will destroy YOU by misusing a computer. and with the loss of trade unionism, just look at all the poverty there is out there. crap wages and the like. no wonder people with blue collars have to turn to crime. the gold collar does not need to. he just does it out of greed. nothing else. toryism.
Thanks for my grammars wheat
Is there aught we hold in common with the greedy parasite?
Who would lash us into serfdom and would crush us with his might
Is there anything left but to organise and fight?
For the Union makes us strong
Solidarity forever....
"Victory in the proletarian revolution cannot be achieved, and that revolution cannot be safeguarded, while there are reformists and Mensheviks in one’s ranks." -- Lenin.
does anyone know of that other unioin song which is sung to tannembaum?
it goes something like ..... the red flag, the red flag, we'll keep the red flag flying. I would love to get the whole words, if possible. and johnny cash sang a lovely song which all trade unionists should also sing. i think it is called I wont go down,or something like that. it is on you tube.
it is called I WON'T BACK DOWN. pleaselisten to it a few times.
i think it was composed by tom petty who passed away recently.
but DO give it a spin on you tube. honestly, it is a lovely pro labour song.
RIP all of those miners. Do we know who is responsible for this?
Cause not determined
@@james9311 yes, but, what do people think?
@@benibrahimtopal not sure mate, try and find some information from people who have involvement in the incident
Get those pits up and running again. The technology is there for the clean consumption of coal.
markey4000 To be fair'I could also get on board witj that aswell
I think you may have missed the reason for this tune..'Good Old Days' they were not.
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