Ned is only eleven when he starts work in the ironstone mine. His job as a trappy lad is to open the wooden door for the pit ponies as they haul their wagon loads of stone through the tunnel. The work is hard and dangerous, and like all miners, Ned knows that a rockfall could spell disaster.
- ISBN10 0713647299
- ISBN13 9780713647297
- Publish Date 30 October 1998
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 11 October 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Imprint A & C Black (Childrens books)
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 80
- Language English