| Name: Carol Blackwood | Pit worked: Snowdown , | Pit Job: | Year left: |
| Country: United Kingdom | City: Canterbury | Email: B@zilbrush.com | Website: |
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| Comments: Hello, I have been asked by an old mining community to create a monumental sculpture to be placed in the centre of their town. I have looked at various sculptures which represent miners, and personally I find them lacking energy and vitality, something very evident in old photographs of miners I have seen. Having found your site I realised this is a great opportunity for me to get some feedback from the miners who are listed on this site to tell me what they would like to see in a sculpture that will represent them well. I am particularly interested in hearing from anyone who worked in the Snowdown Colliery know as Dante's Inferno. | |||
| Name: phil green | Pit worked: cronton , lancs | Pit Job: fitter | Year left: 1984 |
| Country: United Kingdom | City: st helens | Email: pmgreen@fsmail.net | Website: none |
| New Occupation: retierd | |||
| Comments: how are all you old crontonians doing ? pmgreen@fsmail.net | |||
| Name: Les Trueman | Pit worked: Dodworth , Dodworth | Pit Job: Forman | Year left: 1989 |
| Country: United Kingdom | City: Barnsley | Email: lese4rsi2000@yahoo.com | Website: |
| New Occupation: Retired | |||
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| Name: Albert Welford | Pit worked: Wooley Colliery , | Pit Job: Forman | Year left: 1974 |
| Country: Select Country | City: Barnsley | Email: lese4rsi2000@yahoo.com | Website: |
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| Name: Malcolm Roebuck | Pit worked: Calverton , Nottinghamshire | Pit Job: Safety Officer | Year left: 1999 |
| Country: United Kingdom | City: Skegby | Email: malcolm.roebuck@ntlworld.com | Website: |
| New Occupation: Retired | |||
| Comments: First colliery I worked at was Teversal (deputy),then Sherwood, Bevercotes and Calverton as Safety Officer. | |||
| Name: DAVID BARTLAM | Pit worked: BADDESLEY , WARWICKSHIRE | Pit Job: CONVEYOR BELTS | Year left: 1970 |
| Country: United Kingdom | City: LEICESTER | Email: N/A | Website: |
| New Occupation: DISABLED | |||
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| Name: Richard Walker | Pit worked: Hatfield Main , South Yorkshire | Pit Job: Back-up | Year left: 2008 |
| Country: United Kingdom | City: Staffordshire | Email: N/A | Website: N/A |
| New Occupation: Refuse collector | |||
| Comments: Completed training course at Hatfield Colliery, but decided to return to former employment. Glad I tried it, but I don't think the privatised industry will ever be like the nationalised one which my family used to work in. | |||
| Name: steve adnett | Pit worked: Daw Mill , Warwickshire | Pit Job: Belt Patrol | Year left: 1997 |
| Country: United Kingdom | City: Atherstone | Email: steveadnett@yahoo.co.uk | Website: |
| New Occupation: Laminator | |||
| Comments: Loved the pit, tried to go back but U.K Coal only set on Notts men and we dont get a chance, still there loss! good luck to all warwickshire men still there. | |||
| Name: Grahame Perry | Pit worked: Lady Windsor, Ynysybwl , South Wales | Pit Job: Supplies | Year left: 1978 |
| Country: United Kingdom | City: Port Talbot | Email: grahame.perry@virgin.net | Website: |
| New Occupation: Retired | |||
| Comments: I started at the National Colliery, Wattstown in 1955,repairing on the night shift with George Chapman.I then worked at the Maritime Colliery in Pontypridd in 63,64 and 41 districts before working in the Lady Windsor as a collier in 903 district in the Nine Feet,and later worked in P10 on supplies | |||
| Name: ANDY EDDLESTON | Pit worked: Agecroft , Lancs | Pit Job: Official | Year left: 1990 |
| Country: United Kingdom | City: Burnley | Email: lordavron@hotmail.co.uk | Website: |
| New Occupation: Police Officer | |||
| Comments: The happiest days of my life,as regards the new job "IF YOU CAN'T BEAT EM, JOIN EM". | |||
| Name: percy pounder | Pit worked: hapton valley , | Pit Job: face worker | Year left: 1982 |
| Country: United Kingdom | City: burnley | Email: peter.pounder@sky.com | Website: |
| New Occupation: school caretaker | |||
| Comments: I started down pit from school at bank hall and worked with some great guys always ready for a laugh. It was a sad day when last pit closed. keep in touch.percy. | |||
| Name: david jack | Pit worked: polkemet , scottish | Pit Job: transport | Year left: 1985 |
| Country: United Kingdom | City: shotts | Email: daviecjack@talktalk.net | Website: |
| New Occupation: gravedigger | |||
| Comments: the strike killed the industry for everyone | |||
| Name: Ian Blyth | Pit worked: Betteshanger , Kent | Pit Job: coal face and advanced heading | Year left: 1973 |
| Country: United Kingdom | City: Stratford upon Avon | Email: ian@ianblyth.fslife.co.uk | Website: |
| New Occupation: Retired | |||
| Comments: Started at Chislet in 1966 on timber before joining Teddy Davy's team on the face. Transferred to Betteshanger when Chislet closed and left the industry in 1973. Best bunch of guys I ever worked with, such a crime that the industry was killed off. When I started at Chislet the training/recruiting official was leaving, saying that mining was a doomed job!!! | |||
| Name: Iain Turkington | Pit worked: Seafield , | Pit Job: Mine management trainee | Year left: 1979 |
| Country: Canada | City: Victoria | Email: iain@shaw.ca | Website: |
| New Occupation: Electronics Technician | |||
| Comments: Was the best job i ever had, i loved life underground and was sad i had to move to canada and leave it all behind, but in retrospect sounds like it was a good choice since the collapse of coal mining. | |||
| Name: ALAN SMITH | Pit worked: BARNBURGH FRICKLEY/SOUTH ELMSALL , SOUTH YORKSHIRE | Pit Job: ASSISTANT ELECTRICAL ENGINEER | Year left: 1995 |
| Country: United Kingdom | City: DONCASTER | Email: ALANSMITH787@AOL.COM | Website: |
| New Occupation: PPM ENGINEER | |||
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| Name: david cockburn | Pit worked: silksworth , | Pit Job: | Year left: not known |
| Country: United Kingdom | City: sundrland | Email: grfc10 | Website: @hotmail.co.uk |
| New Occupation: | |||
| Comments: i was looking for any one who worked with my farther those are his details above please get in touch many thanks | |||
| Name: ian smith | Pit worked: Tilmanstone , kent | Pit Job: Deputy | Year left: 1987 |
| Country: United Kingdom | City: Dover | Email: mel.smith16@btinternet.com | Website: |
| New Occupation: Own and run a pet shop with my wife | |||
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| Name: geoff (ozzie) knowles | Pit worked: agecroft , lancashire | Pit Job: face worker | Year left: 1990 |
| Country: United Kingdom | City: burnley | Email: knowlesmg@aol.com | Website: |
| New Occupation: retired | |||
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| Name: Mick Cunningham | Pit worked: Hapton Valley & Lea Hall , Lancs & Staffs | Pit Job: Face Fitter | Year left: |
| Country: United Kingdom | City: Stafford | Email: jm_cunningham@btinternet.com | Website: |
| New Occupation: Underground fitter at Gypsum mine | |||
| Comments: Served apprenticeship at Happy Valley Lancs, after closer transferred to Lea Hall in Staffordshire, went on the contract circuit like many after Lea Hall shut, then left industry to start new career in Health service. got fed up there & now back into mining working as a fitter at a Fauld gypsum mine in Staffordshire | |||
| Name: john kershaw | Pit worked: hapton valley.parkside , | Pit Job: faceworker | Year left: 1986 |
| Country: United Kingdom | City: burnley | Email: johntheminer@msn.com | Website: . |
| New Occupation: retired | |||
| Comments: hi john kershaw here anyone who knows me please get in touch..worked at parkside with sidey.[dave sidebottom] | |||
| Name: david sidebottom | Pit worked: parkside , | Pit Job: faceworker | Year left: 1988 |
| Country: United Kingdom | City: leigh | Email: madge43@hotmail.co.uk | Website: not got one |
| New Occupation: retired | |||
| Comments: hiya to all ex miners i still keep in touch with some of mates from pit...anyone who knows me get in touch..david sidebottom.i worked at huncoat& hapton valley& and parkside... | |||
| Name: Martin Needham | Pit worked: Markham , Doncaster | Pit Job: Electrician | Year left: 1995 |
| Country: United Kingdom | City: Conisbrough | Email: martinneedham1966@yahoo.co.uk | Website: |
| New Occupation: Sales Manager | |||
| Comments: Earlier Pit's were; Wath Main 82-86, Barnbrough 86-89, Bentley 89-93 | |||
| Name: steve lupton | Pit worked: Agecroft/Hapton Valley , | Pit Job: Haulage | Year left: 1992 |
| Country: United Kingdom | City: Burnley | Email: stelup64@ntlworld.com | Website: |
| New Occupation: Stores/TRW Automotive | |||
| Comments: I worked at Hapton valley from 1980/1982 then on to Agecroft, I worked with Terry Hindle on belt Maintainance for about 3 years then on to Haulage with Paul Heaton for most of my time there, when Agecroft closed in 1991 I did a bit of Salvage work firstly at Agecroft then at Bickershow Complex for about 8 Monthes | |||
| Name: JOHN MULGREW | Pit worked: polkemmet , lothians | Pit Job: transport | Year left: 1974 |
| Country: United Kingdom | City: burnley | Email: john.mulgrew5847@ntlworld.com | Website: |
| New Occupation: schoolcataker | |||
| Comments: i left 34 years ago i lived in the FORTH before moving south all the best | |||