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Life in the early 20th-century coalmining communities changed very little for the women who dedicated their lives to their coal miner husbands. Their working hours continued to be longer than the eight-hour days spent down the pit by the miners. Living conditions continued to deteriorate and further challenges to their home-making skills were presented by lack of investment by the coal owners in failing to provide the basics of clean water and sewerage systems which still evaded many mining communities. Health services were slow to develop and women's health was just beginning to be of some importance to the medical profession. The women also had to cope with demands put upon their families by the First World War which highlighted the importance of solidarity, a feature of mining communities which had proved itself to be the at the heart of colliery village life. AUTHOR: Margaret has an MA in History and taught at secondary school. She is now a family history researched in East Durham. Margaret is passionate about Duram's coal-mining history, and much of her research is related to this. She lives in Wheatley Hill.

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Margaret Hedley's account of her great-grandmother's married life in the first decades of the 20th century illuminates the conditions faced by women in pit villages.

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MARGARET HEDLEY has an MA in History and taught at secondary school. She is now a family history researcher in East Durham. Margaret is passionate about Durham's coal-mining history, and much of her research is related to this. She lives in Wheatley Hill.

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