Lovely video 📽 great part of history. Was the pit where the new school is built in oakdale thanks 👍

Nice one 👍🏻

Very good thank you.

Thanks for sharing Mick

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Danke geteilt. ❤️👍💪

My uncle Roy worked there for years Roy Wright one amazing man

My father worked down there live video

My dad and brother and uncles and grandad worked at Babbington

My dad worked there: Ron Stewart

My dad worked there, Ron Stewart

1 minute 52 is a photo of me on 11s face top hard seam

I was in the last 20 intake at wearmouth 1987 And worked on the 1570 i think For Colin Fowler 6 o clock men What an easy job

How come they only was one A frame when all the other pits had two shafts with two head frames

Takes me back jesus were have the years gone

Brilliant video Mick. Cheers for sharing 😊

In the early 70s the company i worked for had the ncb contract for loading shovels dumtrucks etc my first week am sure it was thursday around 11 am i was loading lorries next to gates at the road lots of house wives with prams kids came along then lads would come out handing wages over as i was single i thought strange until i got married

Thanks for another one Mick, keep em coming 👍🏻

Millions.of.tons.of.coal.under.ground.in.england.closed.all.pits.down.n..now.buy.it.from.another.country.thats.how.fuckin.stupid.the.pollys.r..

Worked the coal trains between Too and from Didcot Power Station and Daw Mill Coal Mine time in the 90's up to it's closure.

Wonderful, my greatgrandfather help sink the shaft to Pleasley Colliery, my father and grandfather worked at Glapwell, Pleasley and Shirebrook.

Hello I am a ex miner and I did work at Calverton pit

In 1970 i was 18 yr old working for a plant hire company who had ncb contract coming from weardale to dawdon was an eye open i drove loading shovels in the yard and up the field on stock piles on wknds worked with the yard gang mostly cleaning coal off the rail lines we would have our bait with the yard gang i learnt a lot about life ther pay day the lads would hand money over to the wives at the gate billy pig was in charge of them he had a tough time getting time sheets signed was a struggle any breakdown time was knocked off two local lads were johnny and ernie weller the hornsby bros were from easington as from 1973 onwards i spent 30 odd years in opencasts and quarries many times away from home but i will never forget time at dawdon

My late father was a coalman. Used to help him bag the coal and ride on the back of his lorry on his deliveries.

This absolutely moved me to tears.. brave, brave men to have gone down that shaft day in, day out... I salute you all. My Great Grandfather, Robert Spence Kirton worked in that mine until he went to fight in WW1. He didn't return. His name is on the remembrance plaque in Thompson Road Cricket Ground

All miners whichever colliery were a unique breed proud of what they did

Lovely video i used to cart coal out of Arkwright for WT Mountain

As much as the sights of industrial Britain are rapidly disappearing so are the sounds and smells of our industrial past ,tell me out there who doesn’t get a sense of loss when you smell a coal fire or at least the smell of the stuff that has replaced it ,

My dad worked at Bettshanger 48 years ❤️

2:12 that's my grandad in the second row on the left with the diamonds on his cardigan🥰my grandad Grainger😇❤️

At 1.10 it's Betteshanger

Much greener to ship coal from Poland????

Brave men

Whenever my mind is triggered by memories of Mansfield Brewery I almost want to weep. Oh what a jewel that was lost. The greatest people I had the honour to work with.

Danke geteilt.

Great video

My grandad spent 33 years working at Murton Colliery. He retired in 1984. So proud of him. He lived on the Wembley Estate. Thank you for this video.

I work at Matsuura Matsuura Machinery which is on the site today, I have overlay plans of the site as it was and now, also tunnels. Pit head stones still visible.

I was at Betteshanger - brought back a good few memories and saw a few faces. Picture of two of the fitters I was with during my apprenticeship. Brilliant video

photo 3.19 far left is the 750 ton bunker. this was quite new really , 10 years old or so before it was blown up . the steep gantry is the new ROM and the alpine chute from the bunker is the flow to outside when the bunker was full

3.00 this is the 2 belts from the winder / coal skip / and tub tippler. Left belt is dirt / spoil only / the right is the ROM, run of mine, going to the prep plant. It looks like it is rising where it runs over the road bridge, so the head height was restricted for a short while. it was possible from here to walk via this place all the way virtually to the lamp room then the baths without going outside. Quite a fair walk

Awesome again, where do you get all this material from?

awesome, i worked here for 8 years in the 80's , never seen this complete footage before

Who is singing this..??

Comment posted by Michael ,that was my hobby ,I would scramble away on former colliery sites and find bricks with colliery name on it ,had over 200 at one time but had to leave when I moved ,do you know what the more I look at these colliery workers and it’s almost if you could still meet them at the bus stop today ,gosh it’s just a generation gone ,so sad ,

I did my 4 year time at the Knack,worked everywhere from the wash plant loco shed and underground.As it was such an old pit it had some amazing areas that did not need roof supports but it was very quite and eerie.

The first photo of the painting my husband painted it, he is in the first photo of 3 miners he's on the right

Used to collect my wages from whitwick colliery when I was at coalville tech in the 70s. Also ,I still have one of the whitwick colliery house bricks.

Ps dry your washing in front of it!

These photos and news clips are so poignant,this was.a industry that disappeared in front of our eyes,yes when nothing left to mine or dangerous conditions then Unions with management generally worked together and there were good relationships between both sides ,watch Joe Gormley and Derek Ezra talking constructively ,Then 1974 plan for coal and the development of the Shelby coalfield is a classic example ,but then politicians came to power who had a planned vendetta for previous industrial disputes ,Result tonight the last coal fired power station officially closes ,Another generation will reap the rue ,when I left school at 16 in Sunderland there was a guaranteed apprenticeship at the Pit or Shipyard .cant do that ,university unheard of ,girls to get a good job at Woolies can’t even do that now ,we’ve thrown it away ,Coal ,we had a full coal fired range ,cook on it ,heat water on it ,back boiler gave you hot water ,see by eat ,relax in front of it keep warm in front of it and even get rid of your household rubbish on it ,ps try sea coal ,it was wonderful ,Thank you to our miners from generations passed,