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Jim Slaughter's Narrative History: 'Dadding' the Pit Clothes
"On the way to work, down the colliery rows, the women were that proud, they wouldn't let their men go to work unless
their boots were polished, their pit hat was polished, even their knee-pads were polished. They didn't want anybody
saying, 'Oh look at that sloven.' And when you came in from work, sometimes your clothes were soaking wet, dusty,
a little bit of everything, and the woman's job now was to 'dad' the clothes. That means bash the clothes on the
wall of the house outside 'dadding the pit clothes', that's what they called it, 'dadding the pit clothes'."
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