Hard But Happy Days
A Memory of Hamsterley.
I was working at Hamsterley colliery in 1963 to 1967, pony driving and putting tubs. Putting was sometimes hard work. All the pitmen were honest and good workers, pit ponies were our friends as they made the money for you, they say hard work never killed anybody, but go and look at any graveyard in northwest Durham and see the ages that they died - all for coal. The lads that hewed the coal are now short of breath and can hardly walk 20 yards. Hamsterly was a happy pit and I enjoyed the comradeship that was there.
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