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Bestwood Colliery Remembered. Coal miners are all heroes 💪

2024 - The coalman still delivers sacks on his back to our house.

How I would love to turn back time and live back in the 70s or before. I really despair at what we have now (2024) and can’t see life improving under this fast evolving totalitarian state.

The year I left school I got a job at a fuel station/garage. I was the petrol pump attendant and general mechanic workshop dog's body. The local coal trucks were serviced at the garage and I had the unenviable task of steam cleaning the coal trucks before the mechanics touched them. Well they didn't want to get their hands more dirty that necessary did they? 🙂 On the days when the coal trucks were serviced I also had to be steam cleaned when I got home. 🙂

Used to jump on back of lorry as kid and push bags off and everyone would grab scattered coal !!

World record holders for drinking steaming hot cups of tea. 😂.

Brilliant, more please, my dad was at Bettshanger.

SEPTEMBER 2024 Don't worry folks, soon we will all see the rise of ecoal man, once gas in our house becomes a thing of the past. Remember this they won't hold us to ransom over gas, or even electric too. 🇬🇧Ⓜ️🇬🇧🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗

Some 'modern' EV batteries weight about the same as 15 of those sacks!...which obviously ain't light!

Saw a coal man doing his round yesterday

Been there done that for Patterson Bros, Darlington, Dennis

My grandad was a coal man and my great uncle a coal miner

OMG they had it hard Just carrying those sacks full of coal but they never moaned .they got absolutely filfy with the coal dust .wish we had our coal days back .

I can remember the coal being delivered to my nans, when i was a kid in the 70s.

Coal man arriving me and brother hiding cause dad spent money on beer .

Used to love just how they dumped it at the gate if nobody was home. The old sack lorries never seemed to loose any bags of coal off the back of the lorry

My dad worked in pit When he was on afts and I was walking home from school I used to walk round corner and look up our street and see coal in front of house and think dads on afts that’s a ton of coal to shift into coal oyle for me Got me ready for later in life when I worked in pit 👍 Happy Days great memories

I worked for Western fuel company based at whopping wharf Bristol for about three years back in the 60s, loved the job although dirty as you can imagine, I won a cash prize for naming a train used by us in our yard , the “ Western Pride” .

My ex workplace from November 1987 until it closed August 1989. Transferred from Snowdown. Great video, well done.

Discussing wot snatcher MAGGIE did to hard working men she woz a nowter

Id did this job for charringtons in cambridge was a good job sure kept you fit.

Another good one , thank you 👍👍

Keep em coming Mick 👍🏻

Brilliant film footage

Remember the Coal man arriving..

Great memories of being 7yrs old in Liverpool in 1956....0ur coal was pulled along the streets of Toxteth by a giant of a Shire horse!...I’m sure it’s head was higher than our house roof!!...😂 I loved the sound of its giant hooves CLIP, CLOPPIN’ on the stone cobbles of our street....it must’ve been a back breakin’ job with those heavy sacks of coal....

The last stand of British SURFACE COAL serving Drax B power station: Talking of HYPOCRISY: Aided by HUGE UK government subsidies, the switch from coal to wood (biomass) at the Drax Power Station (built near surface coal deposits) took place when biomass was cheaper than other renewable sources of energy, but the strike price of wind and solar has since fallen far below that of biomass. Since burning wood creates 4x more carbon dioxide than burning fossil fuels, further subsidies for this industry are controversial. In the UK Taxpayer subsidies for Biomass are to be continued until 2027, part of the 24% renewables tax, plus 5%VAT of course, on your domestic fuel bills. International carbon accounting frameworks allow emissions from burnt wood to be included in the carbon budget of the country in which the trees are grown rather than the country in which the wood is burned. Smokestack emissions from UK biomass power plants are therefore 'not counted as UK emissions'. Although perfectly legal and in line with rules laid out by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change designed to prevent double-counting, critics have described this as an ‘accounting trick’ (Clark 2023, Lawson 2023). While it helps the UK reduce its official emissions, it does not reduce global emissions and, in practice, the UK is creating more greenhouse gases to produce electricity than it says it is. NO, SURELY NOT? Most biomass for the UK comes from the US and Canada in diesel powered ships and is transported on land by diesel powered trucks. The pollution of a round trip of these huge ships is estimated to be equivalent to 50Million Diesel cars doing the same mileage Again, the DRAX, converted from a coal burning power plant, is built adjacent to UK surface coal deposits. Our greatest exponent of biomass even on his Royal Estates is our 'king' who lectures us regularly on Climate Change, Net Zero, Atmospheric CO2 blah, blah, blah.

I helped out my father and two uncles (McCracken Brothers) bag and deliver coal for a 4/5 month spell when I was around 17. I was an apprentice electrician, and there was a building strike, so it gave me a few extra £s. Boy, was I glad to get back to electrical work. Mind you, it made the man of me at the time! Great video.

They use to go by me when I was walking to school back in the 70’s. Never forget that nice smell of coal. Loved it.

Stupid Music Man risking His life so you can have yours

I miss that era I really do.

This brings back k memories as a kid, seeing the coalman delivering and we had a coal bunker in garden, still remember the smell of coal, happy days ❤

Used to go out loaded 7:30am .Back midday for another load then back and loaded for next morning (on your own)

Our coal man was Mr Butler, despite being covered in coal dust from head to foot with only his eyes visible, he was a jolly soul & always had a smile from under his flat cap. He used to back his Bedford flatbed truck down the track at the back of our houses with his trusty Alsatian riding shotgun, then when he drove back out we would hang off the back for a ride. No health & safety then! I miss those days.

Same here .Hand loaded wagons two high

Nothing like coal for comfort and warmth . People kept coal for a long time after things were modernised - I can still remember as a child our Coalman Ray with his studded leather shoulder-pad, his peaked cap, and his gleaming white teeth and rings around his eyes!

Grew up on the Isle of Sheppey in the 60’s. We lived in a prefab that had little to no insulation, steel framed single glazed windows, the floors were all Lino covered. Apart from a paraffin stove the only other heating was a coal fire in the living room. Was only five or six but I remember the coal man coming to fill up the concrete bunker we had at the back of the house. The coal lorry only had three wheels which always fascinated me as a youngster !! Great vid, brought back a lot of happy memories 👍

A very good video and footage well put together, and nice to here the great David Alexander singing the "Miners Anthem"

Ahhh what memories, as kids me and my brother used to ride on back of the coal lorry, the coal men use to throw the empty bags at us and we'd stack them up and pick up any lose coal that fell out of the bags, no health and saftey back then, great days 😊😊😊

When I was young I remember my mum paying seven shillings and sixpence for a hundredweight bag of coal. Happy days and what grafters the coal-men were.

Sent me right back. My brother fell off the top of our coal bunker in the garden and knocked himself out.

We had a " coal bunker" in the outhouse. 10 shillings a sack. I had to set the fire in our living room. Clear out the cinders, old newspaper, few sticks and then the coal. Once going it was great - especially for toast on a toasting fork.

These were 112lbs or 1 CWT (One Hundred Weight)…51kg in new money… Not like the mamby pamby 20kg bag that are available today Try shifting that day after day Respect 👍

In the future this world will be scrambling to open up the seams again.

I used to love the patterns in the coal when it was delivered like gold

Bin man milkman doctor dedt collector death never stopped by the weather.

My late Father was a coalman for a few years, something you rarely see now.

I was a coalman in the 70s I really enjoyed lt.

And there was the smell of coal.

There are generations who don't even know about them