Tribute To The Proud Coal Miners Of Creswell Colliery.
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- Subscribe to my you tube channel for 200+ more coal mine tributes and counting. Creswell Colliery expanded throughout the 20th century after a lease was obtained from the Duke of Portland in 1894 for the top hard seam of coal in the area and Creswell Colliery came into being. The Bolsover Colliery Company owned the pit until it was nationalised in 1947. Creswell Colliery was regarded as one of the most efficient pits in the East Midlands coalfield. The colliery was known for its sporting and social activities and Creswell Colliery Band was for a long time one of the country’s leading brass bands and had been broadcast several times on BBC Radio.
Creswell Model Village was built in 1895 to house the coal mining families. Expansion of housing continued throughout the 20th century. Creswell is in Derbyshire but close to the borders of Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire. Creswell has a Worksop postal address with a South Yorkshire postcode. Derbyshire can be used in the postal address. Creswell Colliery was in the North Nottinghamshire coalfield but miners holidayed at the Derbyshire Miners' Holiday Camp. Creswell Colliery mining disaster,
On Thursday the 26th September 1950 during the early hours of the morning a damaged conveyor belt caught in a machine at the colliery and caused the motor to overheat and catch fire trapping 80 men beyond the flames. They all perished as a result of the fumes and smoke. As word of the disaster spread, Creswell residents rushed to the pithead to offer assistance. One miner, who had broken his back several months before, went down the stricken pit, with a back brace on, to rescue his fellow workers.
Serious errors prevented the fire from being extinguished quickly and only 57 bodies were initially recovered and 23 remained underground for the best part of a year. The fire was finally put out after the entire colliery had been sealed to starve it of oxygen and it did not reopen until Easter 1951 when most of the remaining bodies were recovered. The last three victims were recovered on 11 August 1951 nearly eleven months after the fire.
The enquiry presided over by the Minister of Fuel and Power Geoffrey Lloyd, described a number of factors involved in the high death rate, including telephones being too far from the face, repair work being done on the "paddy" (the underground train used to convey the men to and from the lift shaft), inadequate air shafts and low water pressure in the fire hoses. Creswell Colliery sadly closed in 1991.
My Grandad, Graham Wood was a ripper at Creswell Pit. There is a photo of him in this video, which makes me very proud. He would of loved this, Bless his soul
I drove both the Eickhoff Shearer and the Trepanner here from youth to man. Now my knees and back are shattered. I shudder to think how many yards I crawled in that time and the amount of dust my mask didn't stop from going into my lungs which now, barely keep me alive. But I've just had 10p a week pay rise in my miners' pension so it was worth it all. Thank you.
All Miners Working In Any Colliery Risked Their Lives To Dig Coal ❤
mining gone but not forgotten. at least not forgotten by us miners
The miners will never be forgotten
I worked at Creswell for about 12 years if my memory serves me well. Great guys and good colliers. Working the threequarter seam at my time. Long faces 300m and very gassy. Ivan Bower was the Ventilation Officer I was the Dust Control Officer and Tommy Cooper was the Methane Drainage Officer. I did nearly 20 years in the mines. I worked in 12 mines, but Creswell was the best.
I remember you Les! I started in 85 as a mining craft apprentice and did my stint with Ivan and the vent lads (Wonfer, Wid, Phil Thorton, etc.) in 1986 and then the dust samplers (Hank and Chid) before I started my face training on 33s 😫. I managed to get 30 years under my belt and my time at Creswell was a happy one. It was a mine full of characters and hard working blokes. Hope you're keeping well old miner!
these men and others were and are the salt of the earth hard men with big hearts who built this country im 66 now and spent 25 underground I would trust my life with my mates and it was an absolute privilege 👍
Thanks for the memory of a great bunch of people and work mates,One big Family.
God bless all coal miners.
My grandad and two uncles worked there. Their surname was Nelson from Lo.nghirst Cairns Avenue
proud
Proud to have lived among those lads and lasses at Creswell ,the finest little village in England by a Country mile .
My 4th Cousin, Reginald Teasdale, was one of the miners that died in the 1950 accident
Wish I had pics of my grandad Horace Ward
RIP
Can't thank you enough for the MARKHAM VIDEO ME DAD IS IN IT 3.09 MIMS HE NEXT TO FATS BOWN FROM HOLMWOOD ME DAD SAID ITS MR BOWN TO U X
My grandad
NEVER SHOULD HAVE CLOSED THIS MINE:
Seems like yesterday but all so far away now ,awful ,no sense of community now ,that bit of the crack ,it’s awful what’s gone ,mining ,shipbuilding ,steel on the rocks again,, gosh it’s so depressing what we have lost ,replaced with a service economy and this rotten virus has brought to light the weakness of uk economy , the despair of lost life’s ,pain and misery ,oh for a government or an opposition party that would upon rebuilding uk economy with training ,apprenticeships ,re-equipping manufacturing in this country insisting on uk produced plant and equipment ,don’t tell me that has gone ,uk rebuilt after world war 2with a labour government focussed on producing an economy fit for purpose ,
@@greg5639 spot on pal ,we were world leaders in clean coal technology,but then privatisation loomed and it was dumped ,a national ,criminal act of vandalism ,I had a friend who worked at wearmouth colliery in Sunderland ,German mining engineers came in to examine the pits viability after the Hesaltine fiasco and stated that they wish they had a colliery with coal quality reserves like Wearmouth ,still got shut ,hopeless ,stupid you run out of words to describe the lunacy ,now look where we are!