Many memories 8 under 10 over , I still remember clearing the shaft cables/ pipes & fittings then removing the cages b4 the shaft filling . To those that know I was the last Ollerton Colliery Winding Engine Man
Thankfully one NEW Pit was created a year ago and I hope more pits will will follow suit - grafting is always the best job there is: I miss grafting to this day:
My first pit as a contractor in 1993 on 36s changing a valve on every chock, it was red hot on the face. A bit of a coal factory and the face team were a nice set of lads.
The practicalities of an overly expensive fuel, increasingly unwanted by customers, with dubious environmental concerns never got in the way of an evil ideology then...? It's still there in the ground, but 40 years on no-one has yet to resume digging it out...
@_Ben4810 not strictly true in this instance as if I remember right around 04 Thoresby re-enetred ollerton workings. And then all imported coal, just because somebody can do it cheaper doesn't make it morally right. That is a lesson the UK has yet to learn. Maybe when it hits finance HR and solicitors the penny will drop.
Many memories 8 under 10 over , I still remember clearing the shaft cables/ pipes & fittings then removing the cages b4 the shaft filling . To those that know I was the last Ollerton Colliery Winding Engine Man
Worked here from school 1982 until 1992, great times and some fantastic lads
Thankfully one NEW Pit was created a year ago and I hope more pits will will follow suit - grafting is always the best job there is: I miss grafting to this day:
My first pit as a contractor in 1993 on 36s changing a valve on every chock, it was red hot on the face. A bit of a coal factory and the face team were a nice set of lads.
My father slaved there underground for 25 years until he died in 1972 during the miners' strike.....aged 55
Sad ending for an industry, destroyed for political gain, by an evil ideology.
3 years only down there, but an education every day
The practicalities of an overly expensive fuel, increasingly unwanted by customers, with dubious environmental concerns never got in the way of an evil ideology then...? It's still there in the ground, but 40 years on no-one has yet to resume digging it out...
@_Ben4810 not strictly true in this instance as if I remember right around 04 Thoresby re-enetred ollerton workings. And then all imported coal, just because somebody can do it cheaper doesn't make it morally right. That is a lesson the UK has yet to learn. Maybe when it hits finance HR and solicitors the penny will drop.