Local Appeal Tribunal case file for Eric Gascoigne, aged 46, Runner-on (surface) at Shirebrook Date of birth: Marital status: Not given Address: 5 East View, Langwith Junction, Mansfield Type of benefit claimed: Special Hardship Allowance Type of injury: Injuries - ankle and foot Further information: Previous Local Appeals: 22 May 1959, 30 December 1960, 31 January 1961, 21 March 1961. Letter to Mr Parkin at NUM March 1960: 'Recently the Colliery advertised for 2 Sink and Float testers for testing samples of coal'. Letter from GP included: ' There has been no sign [...] of systemic disease resulting in arthritis elsewhere in the body, therefore it is quite definite that the arthritis in the injured foot is due to the original trauma in 1958'. 1962