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Richard Fynes |
by Shauna Mackay |
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Richard Fynes - mine worker, lecturer, author, businessman, theatre owner, social and industrial Reformer.
It was not some effortless quantum leap that saw Richard Fynes from pit trapper boy to owner of Blyth's Theatre Royal.
He was a man of great character and intelligence. Survival was his forté.
Improving the lot of the miner was always his priority. He became interested in the formation of Building Societies, established the Miners Provident and was instrumental in setting up the first Co-operative store in Cramlington. He wrote The History of the Northumberland and Durham Miners. He loved literature and music and people - though when he encountered the odd Iago, it hit him hard for villainy was anathema to him. |
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Us writers were sat in BRIC sometime last summer discussing Richard
and were really getting tuned into the vicissitudes of his life (because us writers are weird like that) when the lights began to flicker
dramatically. We had just reached a pivotal point on his personal timeline.
A younger man, a man who Richard had mentored, got the Pitman in Parliament gig we think Richard himself wanted and deserved.
To Richard's credit, despite the hurt he must have felt, he remained a life long friend with the man, Thomas Burt MP.
Anyhow, getting back to the strange flickerings, on further investigation it was found that this electrical anomaly had not occurred in any of the other rooms in BRIC. Dodgy wire or, as we prefer, a sign that the spirit of Dicky Fynes is still alive and well in Blyth! |
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