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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: [WW1] Salt Mines?
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 22:56:58 +0000
In-Reply-To: <39.404b5a44.2ce22b8c@aol.com>

In message <>,
writes
>Hello -
>My Grandmother tells me that in 1915 "the Government" sent her father and her
>eldest brother "up North" (they were Londoners!) to work in something akin
>to salt mines. She knows very little of what they did and where it was -
>although she has a suspicion it may have been in Cumbria.
Could it be Cheshire or Derbyshire? There were salt mines (or pans)
there for many centruies

--
Eve McLaughlin

Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

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