The House of Abraham Phillips is a fictitious interpretation of the effect the Lan disaster had on one family’s history. Our usual method of gathering in pumpkins was to force as many on a stick as one boy could carry on his shoulder and carry them home that way. Against the backdrop of the beautiful Garth Mountain, they live with the hell of Victorian industry devastating the valley floor. It needed work and I couldn't face it, having just lived through a renovation of a Victorian house that had become too large for us.

A number of them include the 1982 film Annie, the promotional video for the Duran Duran song The Wild Boys, the 2002 Commonwealth Games opening and closing ceremonies, and the ITV television serial Britannia High. It lists two horses, cattle, eleven sheep, pigs, three plows, three sets of plow gears, some carpenters tools and a wheat fan. I can still hear them tell about how dissatisfied and unhappy he was after that and that he always talked of going back to Tennessee but he died in a few years.Phillips, Abraham (1849–1910)', People Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://peopleaustralia.

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. WIKITREE PROTECTS MOST SENSITIVE INFORMATION BUT ONLY TO THE EXTENT STATED IN THE TERMS OF SERVICE AND PRIVACY POLICY.We have no family records from this time period, but we do know the trip was a difficult one with rivers to cross and hills to climb. Elizabeth (1863-1886) is recorded in the census as a student – it seems likely that she was a student teacher at the local school. Some years back I was looking at the old vellum deeds of our cottage with Jo Thorne; we noticed that Abraham Phillips, the first recorded owner, had been killed in a local coal pit explosion. It was an arduous journey from Cades Cove through all the mountains in eastern Tennessee and the Cumberland Mountains in southern Kentucky. Clara says I am wrong, but my memory was that Abraham's wife died either on the first trip they made, or else it was on this second trip.

When Thomas William Booker, the local coal and iron master, promoted Abraham to Overman and Underground Agent, he and Eliza moved into Ty’n-y-Coed – a detached cottage in the valley close to the Lan mine. Three daughters later, and a lot of water under the proverbial bridge, we now live in a cottage that once belonged to Abraham Phillips, Overman at the local drift mine, Lan Colliery. If you have seen the Chris Monger/ Hugh Grant Film, The Englishman who climbed a hill and came down a mountain, will know what I speak of! New ground was broken with a bar- shear plow with wooden mouldboard for a wing to turn the dirt under .Haunted by his father’s action, steeped in memories and the words of the Old Testament, Phillip Phillips muses his history to seek resolution.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. He passed away in 1923 at the age of 57 years old and buried in Andersons Bay Cemetery Block 61 Plot 51, Dunedin, Otago.Told through the voice of Phillip Phillips, the second son of Abraham, who is haunted by his father’s action. Includes the religion in which subjects were raised, have chosen themselves, attendance at religious schools and/or religious funeral rites; Atheism and Agnosticism have been included. I was born in a Norfolk village with a history that I did not discover until years later, when it became a source for my book, Love is the Fire. The well respected Overman, Abraham Phillips, is faced with a dilemma: it is nearly Christmas; the pit is in danger of closure if coal doesn’t come up.