{"id":6892,"date":"2015-06-05T15:02:35","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T15:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/?p=6892"},"modified":"2015-06-05T15:02:47","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T15:02:47","slug":"hopewell-colliery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/2015\/06\/hopewell-colliery\/","title":{"rendered":"Hopewell Colliery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"yiv6238227274yui_3_16_0_1_1433235969511_18381\" class=\"\"><span id=\"yiv6238227274yui_3_16_0_1_1433235969511_18380\" class=\"\">Some of you might remember Rich Daniels and Robin Morgan, the\u00a0<span id=\"yiv6238227274yui_3_16_0_1_1433235969511_18383\" class=\"\"><\/span>Free Miners who led the tour of Hopewell Colliery on our Warren James day in the Forest of Dean several years ago. Robin started work at the age of fourteen and remembers being lowered down a pit shaft in a bucket on his first day of work. Now nearly eighty years old he has decided to retire!<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv6238227274yui_3_16_0_1_1433235969511_18361\" class=\"\"><span class=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv6238227274yui_3_16_0_1_1433235969511_18354\" class=\"\"><span id=\"yiv6238227274yui_3_16_0_1_1433235969511_18353\" class=\"\">Rich has now taken over the lease of Hopewell Colliery. Rich is planning to develop the mine as a museum and heritage centre and is keen to publicise the mine tour, exhibits, cafe, etc. We would like to support this project and would encourage you to visit and pass this information on to friends and family.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Mine-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6893\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Mine-3-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Hopewell Coliery\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Mine-3-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Mine-3-1536x1020.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Mine-3-2048x1360.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Mine-3-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Mine-3-604x401.jpg 604w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Mine-3-100x66.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Mine-3-270x179.jpg 270w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Mine-3-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span class=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv6238227274yui_3_16_0_1_1433235969511_18355\" class=\"\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1433443509235_5809\" class=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hopewellcolliery.com\/\">http:\/\/www.hopewellcolliery.com\/<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you might remember Rich Daniels and Robin Morgan, the\u00a0Free Miners who led the tour of Hopewell Colliery on our Warren James day in the Forest of Dean several years ago. Robin started work at the age of fourteen and remembers being lowered down a pit shaft in a bucket on his first day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[294,305],"class_list":["post-6892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commons-customary-rights-enclosures","tag-forest-of-dean","tag-hopewell-colliery"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hopewell Colliery - Bristol Radical History Group<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/2015\/06\/hopewell-colliery\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hopewell Colliery - Bristol Radical History Group\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Some of you might remember Rich Daniels and Robin Morgan, the\u00a0Free Miners who led the tour of Hopewell Colliery on our Warren James day in the Forest of Dean several years ago. 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