• About Swadlincote

This interview was conducted as part of the National Forest Company's LANDshapes project, that ran from 2003 to 2006. The project team worked with local people to record and celebrate their culture and the heritage of the National Forest.

Older female - LANt025

In this extract our interviewee talks about her childhood in Swadlincote, near to the Moira Colliery and Barrett Mill, where she could see the pit ponies carrying the powder from the powder house to the pit.