Colour traditional style tattoos on a person's thighs and hand, showing a tiger head, a red rose, a framed portrait and a pocket watch, photographed in a car.

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Traditional tattoo sleeve on legs and hand

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The photograph shows bare legs and a hand resting in a car interior. On the left thigh is a tiger head in orange, grey and black, and on the right thigh a large red rose with green leaves sits above a framed portrait with roses. The hand displays a peace sign with small marks on the fingers, and a pocket watch is visible lower down the forearm.

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Dunmoor pit had run on Harold Pryce's watch for thirty-one years, a silver hunter he wound each morning at the lamp room door before the cage went down. The men set their own time by it, and when it stopped on the Tuesday of the flood, nobody on the surface knew how long the night shift had been underground.

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His daughter Edie came up the hill with the spare key in her apron pocket. She found him sitting on the lamp room step with the case open on his knee, a tiny tiger scratched into the back of the lid from some fairground he had gone to as a boy, its paint worn to grey. "It's not broken," he said. "It's waiting for something to start it."

She sat beside him. Below them the rain had turned the colliery yard to brown soup, and the rose trellis Mrs Hollins grew against the wash-house wall lay flattened, its red heads drowned in the gutter. Edie had framed a photograph of her mother the summer before and hung it in the hall, the glass gone cloudy at one corner where the damp got in.

She took the watch and held it to her ear. Nothing. Then she pressed the crown and felt the spring catch, a tick like a dropped pin, and the second hand began to move. "Right," she said, standing up with the wet coming through her skirt. "Now they'll know what time it is."

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