Tributes have been paid to Danderhall’s oldest miner who passed away last month.
Born in Edinburgh, Jack Smythe played on the streets with Sean Connery as a child and his own life could have taken a very different path after he was offered a trial with Stoke City football club.
However a call up for National Service put that dream on hold and when he returned he found work in the mines as a mechanical engineer until retiring in the early Eighties.
