High Row
United Kingdom | 1973
In Cumbria near Alston, a small drift mine was licensed from the Coal Board and worked by seven men, who had given up a variety of better paid jobs in exchange for a more independent working life. Burrowed deep into a hillside, with some of the seams only two feet high, the enterprise was commercially shaky, yet the men who endured physically hard and long working days, viewed their lives with ce…