FM Conway - Going the Extra Mile

Work at Angel Hill in 1975. This job nearly destroyed the company. As soon as we started to dig, it began to rain. It rained for three weeks, and the houses began to slide forward. It cost a fortune to put right.

and putting everything right cost a fortune; money that Dad could not afford. On top of this, for reasons of his own, Dad had decided to bring in a new gang from Liverpool. He had them living in a caravan next to the cemetery. They were a rough lot, both at work and at play. At one point, the foreman tried to get Peter Donnelly (a Conway man) to use the digger to lift a cable out of the ground. One of the Liverpool men had already failed to cut through the cable, which was as thick as

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