There are no mining villages in Scotland these days, sorry, there is one at Dalmally, where they are opening a gold mine but Cairndhu is a coal mining village that has a long history. That will come out as the archaeologists dig and they can set up a kind of museum. It won't be anything elaborate but it will give me the opportunity to add background to the various characters. We know Miss Kirkwood had a fiance killed in the last days of WW1 as it forms the basis of A Land Fit for Heroes, but what about the others and what was going on in the past? What happened in 1820 when the workers revolt spread from Peterloo and people took up arms? A story within a story and room for all kinds of drama.
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