Easington Colliery - John Wood 'Hollowed Ground - The People of the Durham Coalfield'

Former Easington Colliery miner John Wood talking about the pit, his family and the place he loves. An extract from 'Hollowed Ground - The People of the Durham Coalfield' a documentary film coming 2020 from Lonely Tower Film & Media

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Solidarity comrades.

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I know John wood, and his family and he is a keen pigeon man who has flew pigeons in easington colliery and is now down in horden the next village still flying with his son who is also called john who I went to school with, would love to see this documentary as my father worked at easington colliery as a deputy in the high main as well as all my uncle's and grandfathers, it is very sad too see the way easington colliery has gone since the pit closed down it was as if the people disappeared over night when the closure of the colliery came and many of the colliery streets were left empty and abandoned as well as the main street as we would call it which was seaside lane where all the shops were, there was banks, building society's. hardware stores, fruit shops, shoe shops as well as barber shops and the fish and chip shops which my mother now owns one of them, I saw all of this as a kid growing up in and around the area of easington colliery as my family is from this area and it has not got any better and I am writing this in 2021! the pit closed in 1993! . so Mr wood is right the government do need to come and see what they have left us with which is very little.