My Grandfather worked in the Freehold Pit for a few years before transfering to the Granville. He was involved in the driving of the road from the Granville to the Grange.
@@jonnyaddles I left in about 1968. My first job was packing the minecar wheels with grease. Then I became an electrical apprentice. I would have been 17 at the time. It is possible I worked with him.
@@stevemorse5052 Very possibly, his name was Enoch Jones. I imagine he was a surface worker in his latter years. He also had a brother Bill Jones who worked on the crossing of the mineral railway at School Road and the Coal Wharf.
where is that pub that is shown at 4:30? my great grandad x3 was a miner in Dawley, before moving to blackheath/rowley in the black county around 1857.
Oh it isn't in Telford just an example of how Craven Dunhill tiles were used in pubs. It's actually The Old Queens Head in Islington. More locally good examples would include The Horse and Jockey in Wednesbury, Elephant and Castle pub in Wolverhampton. There has to be examples in Birmingham, maybe Blackheath, even Telford, or at least were but I cannot think of any. A little further afield the Golden Cross in Cardiff, The Zetland, Middlesbrough, are also great examples.
@@javaintheraw2705 the elephant and castle was pulled down years ago - its been recently been rebuilt as a replica in the black country museum, the craven arms in brum has a tiled exterior, cheers
Interesting and informative video. 👍
Thank you so much Neil.
My Grandfather worked in the Freehold Pit for a few years before transfering to the Granville. He was involved in the driving of the road from the Granville to the Grange.
Where was the Freehold? Oakengates?
Did your Grandfather work at Granville until it closed?
@@stevemorse5052 No, he took voluntary redundancy in '72 when he was 62
@@jonnyaddles I left in about 1968. My first job was packing the minecar wheels with grease. Then I became an electrical apprentice. I would have been 17 at the time. It is possible I worked with him.
@@stevemorse5052 Very possibly, his name was Enoch Jones. I imagine he was a surface worker in his latter years. He also had a brother Bill Jones who worked on the crossing of the mineral railway at School Road and the Coal Wharf.
Good History. Thank you.
Appreciated Terry.
where is that pub that is shown at 4:30? my great grandad x3 was a miner in Dawley, before moving to blackheath/rowley in the black county around 1857.
Oh it isn't in Telford just an example of how Craven Dunhill tiles were used in pubs. It's actually The Old Queens Head in Islington. More locally good examples would include The Horse and Jockey in Wednesbury, Elephant and Castle pub in Wolverhampton. There has to be examples in Birmingham, maybe Blackheath, even Telford, or at least were but I cannot think of any. A little further afield the Golden Cross in Cardiff, The Zetland, Middlesbrough, are also great examples.
@@javaintheraw2705 the elephant and castle was pulled down years ago - its been recently been rebuilt as a replica in the black country museum, the craven arms in brum has a tiled exterior, cheers