possibly, Coventry Mine was salvaged, I work there until nearly salvaged, The last manager was simply awful.

They are going to need coal agin I think sooner rather than later. Oil is getting too expensive. Plenty left under out feet. Trouble is the skills are all gone and most men are too old to go back. I still miss going underground even now.

Same here I keep looking for them but all gone

Right, one normally on either end, tail and gate and the overman back by the switch watching the coal coming out.

We had access to masks but most didn't wear them then. Eventually towards the end of mining in UK it would me mandatory.

Get that panzer over, tek middle out after😊

i guess I'm kinda randomly asking but does anyone know a good website to stream new tv shows online ?

@Brock Callan i use flixzone. Just search on google for it =)

@Jude Gibson Yup, been watching on flixzone for years myself =)

@Jude Gibson thank you, signed up and it seems like a nice service =) I really appreciate it !!

@Brock Callan Glad I could help xD

Ironically, the more efficient and productive a mine is, the sooner it exhausts its reserves and has to be shut down.

anthracite

@@44Celt so this coal was steam coal then?

@@eliotreader8220 anthracite is harder than steam coal -cleaner burning

@@44Celt so the coal from this coal mine could not be used in the fire box of a heritage steam locomotive or traction engine or was this Welsh steam which i understand is a kind of Anthracite?

@@eliotreader8220 maybe it could but its a lot more expensive than steam coal which would normally be used for steam application

Yes, Labour did close more mines than Thatcher, but the closures were in agreement with NUM under Harold Wilson's 1974 Plan For Coal. Redundancy's were minimised through natural wastage, older uneconomical pits were closed and the workforce redistributed to more viable operations. Investment was in newer pits which were developed in order to exploit new resources. Off the top of my head I think the NCB were allowed to write off around £400million. The government also investing a further £200million. Thatcher ripped up the plan for coal and destroyed the industry completely.

​@@nickclarke587 destroyed the industry, with a lot of help from Scargill.

Bonny lad, a think ye must be a Thatcher supporter.. ya reet aboot shutting mair pits.. but tha was aalwis anutha pit ti gaan ti.. in the Sixties... but a doubt if ye were even born then... thatcher destroyed the whole industry and killed the mining communities. Thousands of other jobs were lost in the supply industries..... in the 1950's..in Northumbria, there were 76 Collieries alone... aye.. Labour closed aal the little tettie pits that were worked oot... the bigger pits were like Bates, and Ellington were teeming coal oot... aal thatcher wanted was power owa aal thi working class. Full Stop. So get your facts reet bonny laddie!

Who let grandad on the computer

Labour shut worked out mines, where there were no Reserves left to be Economically mined, Maggie shut mines that were Economic with VAST reserves, like Garw?FFaldau 100 Million Ton Reserve, Abernant 80 Million Ton Reserve Taff Merthyr 50 Million Ton and so on !