Like as the brand doth flame and burn
So we from death to life should turn
The Brandling's burning brand was a symbol of a ruthless greedy family who treated the ordinary pit men much as they treated the pit ponies. Just things they needed to generate them riches. On the other hand, people have said "without the mine owners, there would be no work" But I would say Hugh Lee Pattinson owned a chemical plant and he provided work and he got rich. But here's the school for the workers' bairns provided by Pattinson set side by side with the one by Brandling
Pattinson's (left) Brandling's (right)
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Back to the burning brand, The Felling Urban District Council, The Felling Male Voice Choir, The Felling Rotary Club and others, used it as a symbol and they have made it a symbol of The ordinary, nay extraordinary Felling Folk. Indeed The Felling Heritage Group now use it
Read more about the Brandling Family
and about Hugh Lee Pattinson
and about the Burning Brand
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