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School Days
I remember moving from a one up one down back to back house in Hunslet at the age of approx 4 years to a brand new council house in Newhall Road, Belle Isle. I had a great time, my father borrowed a pony and trap, and we went back ...Read more
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Childhood In The 1950s In Caerau
I was born at 87 Victoria Street in 1945. My father was a miner and worked all his life in Caerau colliery. My mother came from London with her brothers and sisters, they were evacuated to Caerau after their house ...Read more
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Look For Pals
My father Arthur Wright was born at no 2 Waterside Cottages on 6 December 1938. He often reminisces about his childhood and his old pals at North Seaton Colliery. Sadly a few are no longer with us but he would like to hear of ...Read more
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Early Years In Park Road
Born in 1947 to Ted & Cred Fowles, I lived in 3 Park Road until 1955 when I moved down the hill to Southsea. I started Tanyfron primary school in 1951 and went on to Penygelli Secondary school, Coedpoeth, in 1958. ...Read more
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Going To Meet Dad
My favourite memory of living in Blackhall Colliery was of going to meet my dad from the pit baths, I used to sit on the top steps or swing on the hand rail waiting for him and listen to all the men sing, it was the ...Read more
A memory of Blackhall Colliery in 1972 by
1950s
I was born in the war years in the area where the Workmen’s Club was later built and later moved to Hall Lane Est ( 28) as the first intake. I remember well the coal loader at the end of Railway Terrace and the great times out and about around ...Read more
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The Past
I was born at Usworth colliery and lived at Old Row. I went to Usworth Colliery School and when I left there I went to work at Usworth pit.
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Stockdales Greengrocers Shop
Stockdales shop was owned by by grandma Winnie Stockdale and her husband Jim. She retired from the shop in 1965 and lived at Church Street, Cudworth. She opened the shop in about 1937. My grandad Jim worked at Monk ...Read more
A memory of Cudworth in 1956 by
Happy Days
My sister and I used to visit our grandparents, Harry and Lily Bliss, who lived on Sandringham Drive, West Monkseaton. We would come down from Scotland in late June and stay for two weeks. Favourite memories include the Spanish ...Read more
A memory of North Shields in 1958 by
Grandfather
My grandfather George Morgan was a colliery blacksmith, he died in an accident at work in October 1938. My grandmother's name was Hannah, she died in 1919. In the 1911 census they lived in 94 Margam Street, Cymmer. My grandfather ...Read more
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Captions
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The first sod was cut at Brodsworth Colliery in 1905 and at Hatfield Main in 1911. At Hatfield it took five years to reach the Barnsley bed at 852 yards below the surface.
To the right, an ancient lorry is just visible, loading coal from the Baggeridge Colliery yard.
'A thriving village with some collieries and extensive cotton factories' was how Bollington was described in 1848. Those factories were especially renowned for the quality of their Liberty cottons.
In 1964 the former colliery village became the hub of the newly created Washington New Town, the idea behind it being to attract commuters and overspill from both Tyneside and Wearside.
South Shields was not only a port with shipyards and ship repairers; it was also a colliery town, with a pit almost in the town centre.
An ancient village, Wolviston lies close to Wynyard Hall, historically the family home of the Londonderry dynasty, whose fortune came from the ownership of several collieries and a port in County Durham
To the right, a lorry is just visible, loading coal from the Baggeridge Colliery yard.
As the name of the colliery would indicate this pit is actually in the Ely Valley and at the time of the Frith photograph would be one of the few still in full production.
According to Pevsner, the architectural marvel at Bentley (which our man failed to photograph) was the pithead baths at the local colliery; these ranked alongside those at Frickley and Manvers Main.
This is one of a cluster of collieries which opened in east Kent just before the First World War. Villagers also found work at nearby Snowdown and Tilmanstone.
Below the barren and glaciated escarpment lie the dying collieries of the Glenrhondda district of Treherbert.
The old road follows the line of the ridge and the beach was once occasionally used to load coal onto boats at high tide from the nearby Trefân Cliff Colliery.
By the 1860s annual output had risen to about 500,000 tons, though 350,000 tons of this was being mined at ten large collieries.
By the early 1920s Bishop Auckland was one of only a handful of 18-hole courses in County Durham; many, such as Barnard Castle, Felling, Ravensworth, Fence Houses (Lambton Collieries), and Durham City
It was constructed after 1829, and it exported coal and iron from seven collieries in the vicinity which ceased production in the 1930s. Coal may have been extracted here since the 14th century.
Two miles south of Langold, Carlton in Lindrick is a village of two parts, the original village to the south and a large former colliery village with hard red brick semi-detached houses.
An entire colliery village was laid out east of the Tickhill to Blyth road after 1922, and named Bircotes.
The first sod was cut at Brodsworth Colliery in 1905 and at Hatfield Main in 1911. At Hatfield it took five years to reach the Barnsley bed at 852 yards below the surface.
This view was taken just east of the railway bridge over Burton Road, which led to the now-closed Arnold Colliery. The green now has five ash trees and a modern phone box.
The village was built to house the coalminers of nearby Costhorpe Colliery, now closed.
The population grew in the 19th century, especially after the opening of the colliery here in 1897. Today the town is most notable for its rows of terraces winding round the valley contours.
On the right is the colliery wharf of the Weardale Iron and Coal Company.
On the right is the colliery wharf of the Weardale Iron and Coal Company.
New Ollerton immediately north-east is a large mining village that grew up around Thoresby Colliery.
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