Local Appeal Tribunal case file for Sidney Thomas Mottram, aged 46, Packer at "A" Winning Date of birth: Marital status: Not given Address: 26 Blackwell Colliery Row, Blackwell Type of benefit claimed: Special Hardship Allowance Type of injury: Injuries - back and ribs Further information: Pencil letter written on 1 January 1959 from Secretary of Blackwell No 1 Branch of the NUM stated: Mottram […] asks if you can help him in any way as he has […] a statement from Dr. Chappel stating his loss of faculty and cannot understand the wording [...] He has 8 children'. Surgery for prolapsed intervertebral disc was in June 1958 and at the time of the appeal Mottram was a Trainee Supervisor 1959