Company & trade
Blackdown Colliery Company
Also called Blackdown pit company · the office · the company
The company that owns Blackdown's ground and rows, employs every adult, runs the shop, pays the chapel and keeps the road; its office is landlord, employer and shop together.
A contractor working deep-mineral extraction let by Britannic Deepworks.
Ties
- subcontractor of the Britannic Deepworks Company
- opposed by Bet Marchant for the Colliers
At the table
A dismissed man loses his house within the month. Deals with Bet Marchant only because the alternative is nine hundred men. Its pumping dried the Combe Bourne.