harrycatcat1 Posted March 20, 2013 Report Share Posted March 20, 2013 I was a milkman at Ardsley from 1983 to 1987. You'll see my grandkids running about all over the place Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UKPoacher Posted March 20, 2013 Report Share Posted March 20, 2013 BTW:- Wifey is from Ward Green Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delburt0 Posted March 20, 2013 Report Share Posted March 20, 2013 Gets weirder here I must no you everyone knows me , did u go in dirty d I c k s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delburt0 Posted March 20, 2013 Report Share Posted March 20, 2013 I remember you did u no ms Armstrong lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddy Galore! Posted March 20, 2013 Report Share Posted March 20, 2013 Bilston or monktonhall. My dad worked in bilston for years. Small world.is he from near by?? not sure bud, he'd retired before i was born and died when i was 6 or 7. I'll find out... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddy Galore! Posted March 20, 2013 Report Share Posted March 20, 2013 Bilston or monktonhall. My dad worked in bilston for years. Small world.is he from near by?? does newton grange ring any bells cushie? that's where they lived, my mother & her 2nd husband bought one of the old houses after he was de mobbed, i remember her saying she'd gone back to her roots and was living just round the corner from where she grew up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennyboy30 Posted March 20, 2013 Report Share Posted March 20, 2013 hi davyo which colliery were you at i worked at kibblesworth, sacriston, and finished at vane tempest cheers kenny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crosshair Posted March 20, 2013 Report Share Posted March 20, 2013 Most of the Welsh villages around my way were built around the mining industry, and the men living with the constant danger involved with their work formed a close friendship, but also constantly taking the mickey out of their mates. Every village had a few rat packs, they would spend the weekends tramping the mountains and woodlands after foxes, or whatever. They had a friendship that I don't think you will see in other industries. And their dogs were a right mottley collection of terrier crosses, and it was not unusual for one of them to open his shirt and take a ferret out if the dogs marked a rabbit. They were a different generation of true hard working men, which I don't think we will see again. The only ex miner I know on here that spent a few years underground is garygreengrass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuddster Posted March 20, 2013 Report Share Posted March 20, 2013 Proud to say my grandad was a miner-working out of pits around Northumberland. Hard men doing a hard job. F. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brown Sauce Posted March 20, 2013 Report Share Posted March 20, 2013 Most of the Welsh villages around my way were built around the mining industry, and the men living with the constant danger involved with their work formed a close friendship, but also constantly taking the mickey out of their mates. Every village had a few rat packs, they would spend the weekends tramping the mountains and woodlands after foxes, or whatever. They had a friendship that I don't think you will see in other industries. And their dogs were a right mottley collection of terrier crosses, and it was not unusual for one of them to open his shirt and take a ferret out if the dogs marked a rabbit. They were a different generation of true hard working men, which I don't think we will see again. The only ex miner I know on here that spent a few years underground is garygreengrass. Well you learn something new everyday! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crosshair Posted March 20, 2013 Report Share Posted March 20, 2013 Well you learn something new everyday! So now you know, you spent them days shooting with an ex collier . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
novice cushie shooter Posted March 20, 2013 Report Share Posted March 20, 2013 does newton grange ring any bells cushie? that's where they lived, my mother & her 2nd husband bought one of the old houses after he was de mobbed, i remember her saying she'd gone back to her roots and was living just round the corner from where she grew up. I stay 2 minutes away. Its called the lady victoria pit and Is now the scottish mining museum and very interesting. Newtongrange is a village full off miners cottages and is your stereotypical miners village. Exciting stuff. All the best gordon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brown Sauce Posted March 20, 2013 Report Share Posted March 20, 2013 So now you know, you spent them days shooting with an ex collier . Did you get my email? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crosshair Posted March 20, 2013 Report Share Posted March 20, 2013 Only the one about the welsh tie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brown Sauce Posted March 20, 2013 Report Share Posted March 20, 2013 Only the one about the welsh tie. Ah, must've sent it to the old address, I'll resend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keg Posted March 20, 2013 Report Share Posted March 20, 2013 BTW:- Wifey is from Ward Green My mum was born and brought up in Ward Green ( B 1931, still with us). All my uncles and some cousins were miners. My dad and his family had a milk round in Denaby and the family are mentioned in the Cadeby pit disaster of 1912 when my Great Grandfather got out after the first explosion, went back to help and got killed in the second. The family still live in and around Hoyland. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davyo Posted March 21, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2013 hi davyo which colliery were you at i worked at kibblesworth, sacriston, and finished at vane tempest cheers kenny Hi Kenny, I worked at Easington Colliery,went into there straight from school & took redundancey at the 1st oppertunity once the closure was on the cards.Real pity as the crack was great & a proper set of lads. I was at work last week and once of the office ponses was even talking to the girls about whats the best hair straighteners. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keg Posted March 21, 2013 Report Share Posted March 21, 2013 Hi Kenny, I worked at Easington Colliery,went into there straight from school & took redundancey at the 1st oppertunity once the closure was on the cards.Real pity as the crack was great & a proper set of lads. I was at work last week and once of the office ponses was even talking to the girls about whats the best hair straighteners. What?? bloke using straighteners?.... no way! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davyo Posted March 21, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2013 What?? bloke using straighteners?.... no way! Yeah, he's one of these with the floppy fringe, he goes & gets a spray tan with one of the girls.I keep away from him as i just wana give him a slap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stu_young Posted March 21, 2013 Report Share Posted March 21, 2013 (edited) my father grandfather an ucles worked down pit ,Betteshanger pit near deal for most of it for my uncle as well as tilmanstone an snowdown Edited March 21, 2013 by stu_young Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pudbas Posted March 21, 2013 Report Share Posted March 21, 2013 grandad was a deputy at rossington, me, dad and uncles, father in law , bro in laws all at rufford notts, like they say you miss the crack, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE MEK Posted March 21, 2013 Report Share Posted March 21, 2013 Ye right about most of the younguns Davy , watched 3 roughnecks struggle to push pipe back on the rig last week should only take one.Sad really,one of them was moanin cos he had'nt had a tea break .told him to get their act together lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrycatcat1 Posted March 21, 2013 Report Share Posted March 21, 2013 I went to Grassmoor Training Centre when I was 16 did some work on the pit top at Shirebrook Colliery and Markham Colliery and did some underground training at Pleasley Colliery I transfered to Park Hill Colliery at Wakefield at 18 years old and did some training at a Colliery at Castleford (cant remember the name) Transferred back to Renishaw Park Colliery and after a while went back to Markham Colliery. I did 3 shifts on the coal face as a fitter from when I was 18 for about 14 years, we regularly used to work 12 and 14 hour shifts 7 days a week. We used to finish early on a Friday night at 5am Saturday morning so we could get back to the pit at 12.00 Saturday for a six hour shift till 18.00 at double time then out after for a skin full and back up next morning at 05.00 for 6 or 12 hours shift at double time. One Saturday morning shift a chap dropped dead in the middle of the coal face and we had to get him 150 metres on a stretcher off the face that was very low then walk about 2 miles back out as we dare not get on the belts with him. One face I worked on was so low that we used to have to take our belts off and push our respirator and lamp battery in front of us to get through and they were regularly 300 metres long. I came out relatively unscathed as I had 36 stitches and a broken finger on my left hand when it got trapped and in a separate accident 3 stitches in a head wound, oh and the "coal tattoos" = cuts that get coal in and heal up blue. I took redundancy in 1989 but would never have left if the pits were still working, although I could not do now what we used to do. I too, now work in a flippin office. Regards Hcc I think at one stage there were 540 men worked at Park Hill Colliery and 2000 plus at Markham Colliery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pegleg31 Posted March 21, 2013 Report Share Posted March 21, 2013 My family aren't miners but I know loads and worked with alot of ex miners coming from north notts there was loads of mines around us when I was growing up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keg Posted March 21, 2013 Report Share Posted March 21, 2013 Yeah, he's one of these with the floppy fringe, he goes & gets a spray tan with one of the girls.I keep away from him as i just wana give him a slap. Bloody hell, that is crazy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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