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The Ride to Burgersdorp
The Gallant D.M.T
The Coronation Crowd
The Volunteers
The Briton
Written while visiting relatives
Wrote this in a friend’s birthday book
A Fair Maiden
Sweethearts of Old
Two Lives
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Before William’s Birth
William’s Early Life
William’s Move to South Africa
The Missing Years and Mary Sarah Bevington
Background to William’s ‘Poems’
William’s Cycle Journey to the North East
Later Years
After William’s Death
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William’s family history 1820s to 1890s
Henry English 1854 – 1908
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Pitmen, Sinkers and Miners
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JOURNAL
POEMS
The Ride to Burgersdorp
The Gallant D.M.T
The Coronation Crowd
The Volunteers
The Briton
Written while visiting relatives
Wrote this in a friend’s birthday book
A Fair Maiden
Sweethearts of Old
Two Lives
COMMENTARY
Before William’s Birth
William’s Early Life
William’s Move to South Africa
The Missing Years and Mary Sarah Bevington
Background to William’s ‘Poems’
William’s Cycle Journey to the North East
Later Years
After William’s Death
CONTEXT
William’s family history 1820s to 1890s
Henry English 1854 – 1908
English Family Tree
Lawson Family Tree
Bevington Family Tree
Pitmen, Sinkers and Miners
Transcribing the Journal and Poems
MORE
Bibliography
Visual material, quotations and acknowledgements
Contact
Privacy Policy
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Starting top right corner and going clockwise – Mary Sarah Bevington; William Ridley English and Elizabeth Bevington; 23 Dawlish Drive; gold miners in South Africa; Henry Bevington English; Highfield College; miners cottages in North East England; Mary Sarah Bevington with children Connie and Jack English. In the centre is William English and to his left is Park Station, Johannesburg.