Eliza's Child
“‘I’m going to the offices to see if they’ll put me on the screens. Next week. Then I’ll make the bread when I get back. You’ll watch Thomas for me, won’t you?’ It was a couple of days later and yet again there was bread to be baked in the communal baking oven in the pit yard. Mary Anne had to bake three or four times a week to keep her family going. If Eliza kneaded and worked it up ready, that being the main part of the work, Mary Anne would take it to the baking oven, where she would meet the... other women for a ‘bit of a gossip’, as she would say. The working of the dough gave her a pain across her chest and she was glad of Eliza doing it.
Eliza tied her shawl round her shoulders and set off towards the pithead that loomed over the short rows of cottages clustered round. She would go to the office first and she might catch the owner in. The men were paid every other Friday in the Blue Bell and the owner would be there later on but she couldn’t go in a public house.MoreLess
Eliza tied her shawl round her shoulders and set off towards the pithead that loomed over the short rows of cottages clustered round. She would go to the office first and she might catch the owner in. The men were paid every other Friday in the Blue Bell and the owner would be there later on but she couldn’t go in a public house.MoreLess
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