My Di worked in seafeild the stories he told are so valuable miss him everyday

It was some of the happiest times of my life working in seafield colliery with men you could trust 100 percent

Hello Iain I’m wondering if you can help, A few years ago I was on a family tree site and someone gave me a link to my late aunt getting interviewed about the fife coal mining ,I guess what it was like in its coal mining heyday. Unfortunately I have lost the KZbin video link of this which I guess was probably made in the 1980s ,thought you may be able to help , My aunts name was aunt lexy , Many thanks

Going by the teenagers jersey, that must have been filmed around 1975.

Can anyone please tell me the name of this song and the artist?

Beatiful kiricaldy

Brings back memories 70’s and 80’s new year parties at my dads. I was just a bairn but the excitement seeing folk put their hand in the pocket giving me a £1 note for pouring them a drink or getting them a can of Tennants/Mcewans , I was rich for a night! 😂

My dad did this job. Ilkeston Miners rescue service, Derbyshire till 1977,then went to mine coal for DNC natal South Africa.

Thanks!! The strike of the mineworkers will be "unvergessen", as we say in Germany. See alsokzbin.info/www/bejne/ravai5mklM-hbNU

pure music

Busy road, even back then!

That's it Jim, don't you let any Townies destroy your garden

If it hadn’t been for mines rescue I would not exist. ❤️

Why the fuck wear kilts for appearing on the programme

I have lived in Belfast all my life in ,1960 my uncle took me on to the shanklll on a Saturday afternoon.It was a hive of humanity.I shall never forget what he said about it.You can live all your life on the shanklll and die and never have left it.

Excellent piece of film well done👌👍

AWESOME I WANT TO MOVE THERE

Remember this as a nipper. Used to go to work sometimes at seafield with my maw that worked in the office, sure she was at dysart as well. I got to see the lifts and all the men going up and down, hanging up or lifting their checks from the board. And saw seafield demolished in 1980 something, too young to remember exactly when.

check out the happy lands.amazing movie about fifes struggles in 1926(all Scottish)lol

Which mine was it where the men were travelling in the mine vehicles with the breathing apparatus on. PS My father had worked at the Michael Colliery. I wish I could have asked him since watching this film.

I had an uncle who was there that day underground. He couldn't come to terms with the fact that he had to leave a colleague and save himself (he had three young children) and he eventually took his own life. These are things that are not known or recorded his name was Alan Scott.

Thank you for a very good remembrance video of the disaster that happened at the pit my father Henry Morrison was unfortunately one of the men that died that day my thoughts and prayers go out to the other families that lost loved ones in the disaster my name is Alan Henry Morrison God bless

at 407. Dave Murdoch in the back row great man

53 secs Geordie bennet on the far right wi scargill

G-LILA did not belong to Jenson Button, K-ATG did.

Nice job guys

god bless jimmy starrs,sacked for lifting coal off the bing at polkemmet colliery,jimmy had 5 kids and came fae harthill,scabs hing ure heeds in shame,reckon the gates were open when you went up to heaven jimmy

a scabs a scab forever,sacked miner polkemmet colliery

My father who was in the Fife mines rescue got called out to the Michael via the alarm box ringing above the front door in the house to attend.The 1st rescue vehicle broke down at Randolph in Kirkcaldy, he was in the 2nd or 3rd crew as he recalls.

Agree Scotland trance just look at their throphy room, 4-1 to the Kings of Fife.

And a few criminals among them tainted the neighborhood.

Iain Chalmers (at 10 seconds) my sister in laws husband; he took us both down the pit when it had been mothballed; we went down in the cage and walked back up; a bloody long trek too. Saw some of the old seams that were worked on; glad I had the experience as my Dad and his family were miners; showed me the bloody awful conditions these guys worked in for a "living"? wage. Re the comment from BollockBrain - you named your self well!!

My Father was the local constable when this happened.We lived up the road at the police station.His job was to put the name tags on the dead miners toes.

RIP Maggie. Fuck these peasants.

Nice ol video proud to be a minerescue member.

Love the man with the feg at 44-47 seconds

what an utterly cruel and nasty comment. Did you know anybody seen here or are you just excercising your mean little sectarian mind?

Such fabulous faces to be seen in this stunning film that forever captures a day of ordinary life on the Shankill

Fantastic video blown away by the quality for 1973 its out of this world would love to find something like this from my City.

and his cousin was one of the 3 who were never recovered

my grandad was Phil Thomson and my family will never forget this day

Amen.

I do remember getting a free sugar cube to suck on in 'Spiers Place'. Was there a mother's club or something up there?

No one wanted the coal?? Then why would you freeze exactly??

It was good to see the auld pit brought back to lfe once again, i was just a lad when the disaster happened, but my uncle was one of the volunteers who went down the pit to try and save his mates, i also remember auld jock mcarther who managed to walk out the pit through the auld workings.i miss the way it used to be in the minning communities, that is long gone, just like all our pits. remembering the men who didn,t come home from there shift.

Surprise surprise, got a bite. What a loser. 2-0.

ur describing urself m8

any relation to jimmy Gandy,I working sea field with him Jim Mcgarry

Fife miners during the strike were lazy fucking bastards even when they did have work. Cunts.

come on ye pars