Life in a County Durham Pit Village in the early Twentieth Century

For those of you not familiar with the pit villages of County Durham in which the Bagnalls and Higginsons lived and worked, here is a video from Beamish Museum showing a typical pit cottage and explaining what life was like for those who worked at the local colliery. The actual cottage shown in the video is from a row which was moved from Hetton-le-Hole (where many of the family lived at one time) and re-erected at the Beamish Open Air Museum.