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Northern Advocate, 19 December 1919, Page 8

Mrs Bridget M.Hugh, the oldest "pit-brow" woman in the Pemberton coal field, has just died at Wigan at the age of 80 years. For more than half a century she had worked at the mines. "Old Bridget," as Mrs McHugh was familiarly called, was a hale and hearty _ strongly built wo. man, who could use a shovel in filling mining cars as well as any man, and Was always looked upon as an expert pit-brow worker, few being her equal. The shorter working day was unknown to her, and summer and winter, rain or shine, she was accustomed to leave home at five o'clock every morning and was in her place at the coal hank before the whistle sounded at six. Her day continued until five or six at night. Mrs McHugh was a grandmother, and two 'of her sons are employed in the colliery where she worked so long.