Roberts was born in Springfield, Illinois, the son of an immigrant Welsh coal miner. Jones was born in Nottinghamshire and is the son of a coal miner. He is the son of a coal miner and a nurse. He later disembarked at San Francisco, and found work as a reporter and coal miner. He was encouraged to play snooker by his father Dilwyn, who was a coal miner. His parents were Italian immigrants, with his father working as a coal miner. David had previously worked as a coal miner. Ted was a coal miner and subsistence farmer. Ball's maternal grandfather was a coal miner. Blanda was the son of a Slovak-born Pittsburgh-area coal miner. His father was a coal miner and businessman. Gas explosions were a serious problem, and Belgium had high coal miner fatality rates. It features Eric Clarke, a Welsh coal miner, on saxophone. He was the son of coal miner David Bevan and Phoebe ( Prothero), a seamstress. He also had stints as a coal miner and with the British Army's Coldstream Guards.