My Grandad, Graham Wood was a ripper at Creswell Pit. There is a photo of him in this video, which makes me very proud. He would of loved this, Bless his soul
I drove both the Eickhoff Shearer and the Trepanner here from youth to man. Now my knees and back are shattered. I shudder to think how many yards I crawled in that time and the amount of dust my mask didn't stop from going into my lungs which now, barely keep me alive. But I've just had 10p a week pay rise in my miners' pension so it was worth it all. Thank you.
I worked at Creswell for about 12 years if my memory serves me well. Great guys and good colliers. Working the threequarter seam at my time. Long faces 300m and very gassy. Ivan Bower was the Ventilation Officer I was the Dust Control Officer and Tommy Cooper was the Methane Drainage Officer. I did nearly 20 years in the mines. I worked in 12 mines, but Creswell was the best.
I remember you Les! I started in 85 as a mining craft apprentice and did my stint with Ivan and the vent lads (Wonfer, Wid, Phil Thorton, etc.) in 1986 and then the dust samplers (Hank and Chid) before I started my face training on 33s 😫. I managed to get 30 years under my belt and my time at Creswell was a happy one. It was a mine full of characters and hard working blokes. Hope you're keeping well old miner!
these men and others were and are the salt of the earth hard men with big hearts who built this country im 66 now and spent 25 underground I would trust my life with my mates and it was an absolute privilege 👍
Seems like yesterday but all so far away now ,awful ,no sense of community now ,that bit of the crack ,it’s awful what’s gone ,mining ,shipbuilding ,steel on the rocks again,, gosh it’s so depressing what we have lost ,replaced with a service economy and this rotten virus has brought to light the weakness of uk economy , the despair of lost life’s ,pain and misery ,oh for a government or an opposition party that would upon rebuilding uk economy with training ,apprenticeships ,re-equipping manufacturing in this country insisting on uk produced plant and equipment ,don’t tell me that has gone ,uk rebuilt after world war 2with a labour government focussed on producing an economy fit for purpose ,
@@greg5639 spot on pal ,we were world leaders in clean coal technology,but then privatisation loomed and it was dumped ,a national ,criminal act of vandalism ,I had a friend who worked at wearmouth colliery in Sunderland ,German mining engineers came in to examine the pits viability after the Hesaltine fiasco and stated that they wish they had a colliery with coal quality reserves like Wearmouth ,still got shut ,hopeless ,stupid you run out of words to describe the lunacy ,now look where we are!
All Miners Working In Any Colliery Risked Their Lives To Dig Coal ❤
My Grandad, Graham Wood was a ripper at Creswell Pit. There is a photo of him in this video, which makes me very proud. He would of loved this, Bless his soul
I drove both the Eickhoff Shearer and the Trepanner here from youth to man. Now my knees and back are shattered. I shudder to think how many yards I crawled in that time and the amount of dust my mask didn't stop from going into my lungs which now, barely keep me alive. But I've just had 10p a week pay rise in my miners' pension so it was worth it all. Thank you.
I worked at Creswell for about 12 years if my memory serves me well. Great guys and good colliers. Working the threequarter seam at my time. Long faces 300m and very gassy. Ivan Bower was the Ventilation Officer I was the Dust Control Officer and Tommy Cooper was the Methane Drainage Officer. I did nearly 20 years in the mines. I worked in 12 mines, but Creswell was the best.
I remember you Les! I started in 85 as a mining craft apprentice and did my stint with Ivan and the vent lads (Wonfer, Wid, Phil Thorton, etc.) in 1986 and then the dust samplers (Hank and Chid) before I started my face training on 33s 😫. I managed to get 30 years under my belt and my time at Creswell was a happy one. It was a mine full of characters and hard working blokes. Hope you're keeping well old miner!
these men and others were and are the salt of the earth hard men with big hearts who built this country im 66 now and spent 25 underground I would trust my life with my mates and it was an absolute privilege 👍
mining gone but not forgotten. at least not forgotten by us miners
The miners will never be forgotten
Thanks for the memory of a great bunch of people and work mates,One big Family.
My grandad and two uncles worked there. Their surname was Nelson from Lo.nghirst Cairns Avenue
Proud to have lived among those lads and lasses at Creswell ,the finest little village in England by a Country mile .
My 4th Cousin, Reginald Teasdale, was one of the miners that died in the 1950 accident
God bless all coal miners.
Wish I had pics of my grandad Horace Ward
proud
RIP
Can't thank you enough for the MARKHAM VIDEO ME DAD IS IN IT 3.09 MIMS HE NEXT TO FATS BOWN FROM HOLMWOOD ME DAD SAID ITS MR BOWN TO U X
NEVER SHOULD HAVE CLOSED THIS MINE:
My grandad
Seems like yesterday but all so far away now ,awful ,no sense of community now ,that bit of the crack ,it’s awful what’s gone ,mining ,shipbuilding ,steel on the rocks again,, gosh it’s so depressing what we have lost ,replaced with a service economy and this rotten virus has brought to light the weakness of uk economy , the despair of lost life’s ,pain and misery ,oh for a government or an opposition party that would upon rebuilding uk economy with training ,apprenticeships ,re-equipping manufacturing in this country insisting on uk produced plant and equipment ,don’t tell me that has gone ,uk rebuilt after world war 2with a labour government focussed on producing an economy fit for purpose ,
@@greg5639 spot on pal ,we were world leaders in clean coal technology,but then privatisation loomed and it was dumped ,a national ,criminal act of vandalism ,I had a friend who worked at wearmouth colliery in Sunderland ,German mining engineers came in to examine the pits viability after the Hesaltine fiasco and stated that they wish they had a colliery with coal quality reserves like Wearmouth ,still got shut ,hopeless ,stupid you run out of words to describe the lunacy ,now look where we are!