He was the son of William Garside Phillips, an early managing director of Ansley Hall Colliery, a role that Joe had assumed from 1905 until nationalisation in 1947.

[9] She died in September 1973 in Wiltshire, and was buried alongside her husband in the family vault at St Laurence Church, Ansley.

[12] Phillips was involved with many local and national organisations, including: In 1924 she led the Duke of York, the future George VI, on a tour of the newly opened Warwickshire Miners’ Convalescent Home at Higham Grange.

[25] In 1942 she “hit upon a novel idea in order that she might raise money for the provision of emergency kits for men serving on destroyers” by selling flowers from her garden at the weekly market in Nuneaton.

[27] When her husband died in 1951, Phillips took his place on the Atherstone Rural Council as the representative of Oldbury Parish, a position she held for seven years.