The House of Abraham Phillips

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KlappentextThe House of Abraham Phillips is a fictitious interpretation of the 1875 Lan Mine disaster in Gwaelod y Garth, South Wales. All structured data from the main, Property, Lexeme, and EntitySchema namespaces is available under the Creative Commons CC0 License; text in the other namespaces is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. This story is a memorial to those who lost their lives in the winning of coal; it is also a tribute to the strong women who worked tirelessly to make ends meet while bringing up children, who also worked in the coal mine. Haunted by his father’s action, steeped in memories and the words of the Old Testament, Phillip Phillips muses his history to seek resolution.

Three daughters later, and a lot of water under the proverbial bridge, we now live in a cottage that once belonged to Abraham Phillips, Overman at the local drift mine, Lan Colliery. I was born in a Norfolk village with a history that I did not discover until years later, when it became a source for my book, Love is the Fire. Their eldest son Evan (1848-72) died aged 24, their youngest Elizabeth aged 23, and a daughter Deborah (1857) at just five months, her name passed on to the next daughter. The flames spread quickly through the coal dust in the air so that men far from the initial blast were burned to death. We have no family records from this time period, but we do know the trip was a difficult one with rivers to cross and hills to climb.

Eli Faber, Jews, Slaves and the Slave Trade: Setting the Story Straight (New York University Press, 1998), p.

Decades later, I still look out at the Taff Gorge, ancient beech forests clinging to the hill opposite us and the Garth mountain rising up behind us. The John Phillips family from Virginia had been there since the early 1820s and Charles Phillips and family from Monroe Co. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. The Captains were selected, the heap was divided and the captains took their respective positions with their men to the right or left, as the case may be. The Buff Bay plantation was a sugar estate next to the Buff Bay River, south of Charlestown in Jamaica.The lenient verdict reflected the power of the mine owners – some of the jurors were Booker employees and they feared for their jobs. Even the red man, who despised the white intruder, was obliged to respect his adaptability to the wilderness. The House of Abraham Phillips is a fictitious interpretation of the 1875 Lan Mine disaster in Gwaelod y Garth, South Wales. for a short period of time, for Benjamin Madison fell in love, and did not move on with the rest of the family.

there were often accidents and many became ill on the trail causing some families to drop out of a caravan until the sick became better or died. All that was left was the large flat rock used for the front door step and a pile of rocks of what remained of the fireplace.The House of Abraham Phillips is a fictitious interpretation of the effect the Lan disaster had on one family’s history. Arlene Phillips is a professional choreographer, talent scout, and TV personality, known for being a judge on the TV talent shows Strictly Come Dancing and So You Think You Can Dance. If you have seen the Chris Monger/ Hugh Grant Film, The Englishman who climbed a hill and came down a mountain, will know what I speak of! The Dallas County, Missouri Story" states: they traveled on Indian and buffalo trails, crossed the many streams by fording or by crude rafts they made by felling trees and lashing them together to cross the larger rivers including the wide Mississippi.