{"id":723,"date":"2021-09-02T23:45:14","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T23:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.entercic.org\/wywy\/?page_id=723"},"modified":"2021-09-02T23:46:26","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T23:46:26","slug":"michael-wilson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.entercic.org\/wywy\/michael-wilson\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

 I’m originally from Deafhill. I lived there until I moved to Peterlee with my wife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, living in Deafhill, my dad and a few of his friends started a small community centre with a dartboard, a pool table and dominoes; that kind of thing. In the summertime, they decided to play a game of quoits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They dug a hole in the grounds of the building where the centre was and they dug up a Deafhill Miners pit token. They couldn’t decide who would keep it so they played nearest the bullseye and my dad won it. He showed it to me and explained what it was. He said I could have it and I was hooked from there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please see below for a collection of pit tokens from Michael’s collection. Images \u00a9 Michael Wilson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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