There is living in the township of Butterworth a man named Joseph Taylor, aged seventy five years, who at the age of five years began to work in a coal pit.
At the age of ten he began working as a regular miner and has continued to work in a low mine in the pit up to the present time, a period of seventy years.
He is in the employ of Messrs. Butterworth & Co., Haugh Hey Colliery, Butterworth and although he is so far advanced in years he can manage to get eight loads of coal at 6d per load, in one day.
26th of May 1846, extracted from the Manchester Guardian.
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