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Men who spent their working lives underground found a new world of freedom in racing birds. In Ron Berry’s 1982 story ‘Time Spent’, Lewis Rimmer, a 57-year-old Welsh miner, decides to die among his pigeons. After ‘nigh on 30 years’ hewing coal in the Fawr pit, his lungs are full of dust and, since he can no longer work, the mine is forced to make him redundant. He is entitled to compensation and, as he is reminded, the union should help out, too. But the thought terrifies him. His whole sense of meaning – his value as a ‘man’ – comes from being a collier. Unable to talk to his wife, he slouches out to his pigeon loft in the garden. It is the only other place he feels ‘himself’. He is closer to the birds than to anyone. Opening the hatch, he shoos them out gently. Then, as they swoop low over the valley, he curses quietly, puts a shotgun in his mouth and pulls the trigger. 

United kingdomTower hamletsRhondda cynon taffEnglish channelUnited kingdom generalCity ofJeff bellRon berryLewis rimmerMartin johnesAlexander leeWilliam andersonJulius caesarGeorge orwellCentre for the study of renaissanceUniversity of warwick