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In 1970 i was 18 yr old plant operator from weardale my boss sent me to dawdon driving loading shovels going there was an eye opener to a young lad during the week we loaded road wagons making stock piles up the field wknds we would spend time with the yard gang usually cleaning coal spillage on the lines we would have our bait with the lads billy pig was in charge of them had his work cut out two lads i worked with were johnny and ernie weller from seaham and two hornsby brothers from easington getting time sheets signed was fun any breakdown time we had was usually different to billys i must say i enjoyed working there helped my working

Brilliant documentary on a lost way of life respect to the miner's who worked in these collierys my Dad was a miner and my grandfather and family members on my dad's side and on my mum's side of the family. Both governments Labour and Tory couldn't give a monkey's about the miner's they got sh-t on in the 1960s the labour government shut more pits down more than the Tory lot. The North East area closed hundreds of pits that could of gone on for 30 plus year's FFS 🧐🤨

Somewhere in this video will be both my grandads and bunch of me uncles….me dad was about 11 during this

The out door pool needs to be built agian bring the feel good factor back for families. Loved see ing these beatifull photos of by gone days ,seemed is on the up and the people are the salt of the earth.wounderfull podge cast thank you brought back many memories. Love it😚😚😚

Ernie Taylor, Dawdon Colliery's Union Man was definitely a man ahead of his time, fantastic man 👍

My grandfather was a miner in Durham the Chapman family I have lots of family I have never meet in the North East.

Ernie Taylor was ahead of his time, he was a brilliant bloke 👍

Love from West Yorkshire 👍👍

This is brilliant - Thankyou for making it available - im going to watch more - I like it because Ive always wondered what the pits looked like around NOSE Point - since discovering the place in 2019 - This video shows it all

I lived in the Noahs Ark pub 1965 -68

@0:55 "The miners know the labour party has let them down" christ what would they think now - too bothered about "what is a woman" and lgbtq stuff. "drive the rats back into their holes" - this is how all politicians view the working classes - all of them. They are not like us - they are unlike us.

proper working people - them and their like have been the backbone of this country for a thousand years. They'd weep now at the state of the political party they helped to found. Horrible work, but it was good honest work.

Frank Tempest. Am l related the the Tempest’s why did they call the colliery Vain Tempest ?!?

34 quid a week i can get more than than that working for an hour

I remember seahaam as my uncle Georgeeused to live there and we would visit with my parents I was about 8 or 9 last time I was there there used to be a toy shop neaar rhe beach as well cant remember the name and prob not there anymore but loved finding seaglasss xxx

I remember working on School st in the 90s when they were all refurbished, it was a shadow of its former self!

What a great set of photos thanks 🙏 😊

Hello samv77. I am journalist for the French TV channel France 24, I work on a show about climate and environment called Down to Earth. We are filming a documentary on the old UK coal mines this week and we are looking some archive footage. Would you authorize us to take a few shots from "Dawdon A Life Underground 1974" ? That would be very helpful to us... Thank you very much, kind regards.

Thank you for sharing this my dad is one of the miners carrying the banner I remember matching with me dad through the streets of Durham so vivid and its so nice to see it on video

Thanks for this video I haven’t got any videos of my grandad when he was young and now I have and me and the family get a good laugh out of it

It's sad how some people have the wrong idea of what a miner look,d like, b,cos my dad + uncle Ted ,Saturday night look,d like film stars going to Dawdon club

Sad to see the pit pond in such a state

All.went.topit

Nice

Great footage

I was a winderman on the Theresa winder, loved my job

Certainly trying to talk to you :)

Are the cottages at 7:10 Aged Miners Homes?

i was a shaftsman at the best colliery in the universe dawdon & i wish i could go back there the likes of chimper reid & humphry

...been there...got the tee-shirt !!

I will never forget the smell and sense of anticipation when the shout "THERE'S FIRE" is shouted just before blasting!!

what a tough Agent Manager this guy was....but very committed...and effective!

Anybody with history of Seaham post more vids.

Incredibly enlightening for a viewer born at the end of the coal industry, especially with regards to the miners attitudes to governments and capitalism. Also, what was striking was the contrast to modern TV documentaries, especially without a "celebrity" voiceover all the way through - the people's voices and story was heard...

cheers for posting. a rare gem indeed.

i had no idea this even existed - thanks for posting. looking forward to parts 2-4.

I lived in Dawdon when I was a kid back in the early 70s and I loved it. It might be a lot cleaner now (since the pit shut and everywhere is no longer covered in coal dust), but there are some horrible shits living there these days, which is a shame for the many decent people who are also there. The Dawdon Welfare Club seems be doing okay, though.

I worked with this bloke on here edwin bates

i never worked down the pit but i grew up during the miners strike and my dad and most people were miners

..worked as Mine Surveyor/Engineer '58 to'65....nearer to 4 miles under sea...big hitch separated us from Vane Tempest where there was a permanent [controlled] goaf fire.....two roads lead to the Nick Nack pit. We lost two men killed every year 'cept one...we lost FOUR the next year. These deaths include an Under-manager Bill Miller killed at Zone 13 Main Coal..top of the Retarder Drift. None-the-less for me it was all part of growing up, and now are part of my many happy memories.

Excellent posting,a time long gone.Dawdon pit opened oct 1907 and closed in july 1991.During this time there were no disasters but 100 men lost their lives in accidents at the pit.In the 1960s just before this film was made 10 men lost their lives in seperate accidents.In the last decade before closure in 1991 4 men lost their lives in accidents.The true cost of coal,and to think that wicked woman called them the enemies within.

mint

that pic at 44 seconds is the sort of sight i loved to see from the top road! Better than any tv programme, unique and mesmerising! I worked on the streets of seaham for 8 years with young people, and the town gradually grew on me and I absolutely love the place! Give me a job back in seaham any day!

very well done lovely trip down memory lane , when i was a kid i lived in the docks on summer hols different days . thank you

Great piece of History- thanks for finding it

Ok sorry, got it. Thanks!

Great find, thanks for putting them up. Do you have a Part 2?