Pitmatic: Stories and the Talk of the North East Coalfield

by Bill Griffiths

Overview

The last major mine in the North East region closed in 2005 and with it went a way of life. Through dialect words, humor, stories and songs Pitmatic will help you to understand the everyday lives and work of miners. Miners who provided fuel, helped sustain an economy, consolidated communities and created a unique and rich regional culture. This book is a joyous celebration of the history of the North East bringing together the words spoken by miners and their families and how they related to the wider languages of the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780857162724
Publisher:	McNidder and Grace
Publication date:	09/30/2025
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.80(h) x (d)

About the Author

Before his untimely death in 2007, Bill Griffiths was an unlikely champion of the North East, its people and heritage. Born in Middlesex, he read history at UCL before graduating in 1969. A former Hell’s Angel, Bill was at the center of the British poetry revival. He published out of his own small press, writing political pamphlets and essays on the arts in society, poetry and translating Gilgamesh, Romany, Welsh and Anglo-Saxon works. After gaining a PhD in Old English he fled ‘Thatcherite London’ and settled in Seaham where he embraced the northern way of life.