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"By the breaking in the water at Kingswood Lodge Coal Pit nr Bristol,
these five boys were shut in for six nights and days entirely destitute of food.
They entered on Friday evening, April 18th 1833, and were rescued on the following
Thursday evening. The circumstances of their preservation and of their deliverance,
call for peculiar acknowledgments.

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George Garland a relation of my ancestor Ann Garland who married Thomas Banfield

George is wearing a chain tugger around his waist to pull coal trucks and a candle holder in his hat. George Garland from Kingswood, almost certainly a member of the Garland family of Kingswood from which I have two descents. I haven't as yet identified how this George relates to my extensive Garland clan

This rough sketch of the lads in their pit costumes, is intended as a memorial; and by the sale of the impressions, with charitable donations, they will be apprenticed to some plain trade.

The monies received for this purpose are deposited with Mr. Hall, Lower Castle Street. Bristol

The parents pray'd above,
The children pray'd below,
The mothers frantic love,
The fathers manly woe,
With wrestling strife, shook earth & air,
And moved the very stones to pray'r.

Behold the captive free,
The mourners now rejoice,
With grateful ecstasy,
Let Kingswood raise her voice;
And all her deep, dark pits resound,
"The dead are raised, the lost are found ".