Slighty off topic but, having grown up in leeds (indeed on the sight of an old mill) I'm aware that the heart of industry was ripped out of the area, yet I've never once heard anyone say I'm a tailor, or I've always worked in textiles. People just seemed to get on with it and change to working in service orientated roles. Whereas I now live near mansfield and everyone around me still classes themselves as miners - even the one's who've never worked down the pit and seem to have been unemployed their whole lives. There seems to be a much larger reliance on the state to sort out their problems, and a blame culture of it's the government's fault.does sheffield constantly bemoan it's loss of steel and the related industries?
Are miners a special case? Or are they just lazy workshy bastards around me?
