MAN DIGS FOR A HOME
Enterprise is supposed to he a backnumber in these days. But maybe you have heard of Mr J. Blackmore, oi Crook, County Durham, who nas not had a job since 1921 (says the "Sunday Despatch”). Mr Blackmore used to lie a. miner. So that- when he knew that he would have to leave his house he began io dig. His wife began to dig too. For two years the exploration went on, and then reward was theirs, for exposed to the world . wn s t lie in objective— o_thi’ee-rqq\u.ed - fiols I.iere that they knew bad "been buried .for TO years under a slack heap. Imagine the state of the building. Constant scrubbing, many fires to dry the’ place, and a good deal of paint wore needed to make tho place habitable. \q water was near. Ro Mr Blackmore, who was a water diviner, found some, and constructed his own well. But Mr Blackmore still had to work. So he provided some. Be cultivated j for nine months the land round the cotta ire Refuse and pit slack wore replaced by soil, and ultimately an excellent garden was cultivated. AH Blackmore now has hi* own sin a holding business and grows produce for his own use.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11841, 24 January 1933, Page 3
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