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| Supacat Member Since: 16 Oct 2012 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 11018   
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I don't believe there are, the last privately owned ones have closed I think(?).
Easington is that pit in the North East. You mentioning Northumberland made me think of it again. Did he ever tell you about them going out with a horse and cart and fishing with nets for coal? There's even a Defender connection: 
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28th Aug 2020 6:17pm |
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| blackwolf Member Since: 03 Nov 2009 Location: South West England Posts: 17603 
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There are no deep coal mines in the UK as far as I know but there are at least 13 active open cast mines, and plans were approved last year to open a new deep mine in West Cumbria.
The UK coal industry is still clinging on, just, and it is interesting that the posts above show the strength of the feelings that persist even after all this time. Does anyone remember who David James Wilkie was? |
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28th Aug 2020 6:53pm |
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| Rashers Member Since: 21 Jun 2015 Location: Norfolk Posts: 3566 
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My Uncle is not a Geordie (although he has lived in the North East longer than he lived in Norfolk). My Aunt is native to the area. I remember being told about picking coal from the beach. In fact, I may have taken as a child. I’ve been down the drift mine at Beamish which is a real mine unlike the one the Black Country Museum but still scary enough to realise how the Victorians operated.
Nice shot of the Defender 👍 I used to have to do confined space entry in a past life. The first Guy who trained me was trained in the mines (can’t think of anything more confined?) I think his name was Ray Wiles or something like that. He had a miners lamp which he showed and explained to us. It was a thing of beauty. I am going to Google David James Wilkie. I have no idea? Thanks for the mine info. Are there any British car manufacturers? Oh, I think we have already been there a few weeks ago  |
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28th Aug 2020 7:11pm |
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| Rashers Member Since: 21 Jun 2015 Location: Norfolk Posts: 3566
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I remember the news about the taxi driver. I couldn’t remember his name.
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28th Aug 2020 7:14pm |
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| Rashers Member Since: 21 Jun 2015 Location: Norfolk Posts: 3566
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Bradley open cast coal mine. It was only on the BBC News a few weeks ago.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-53805648 |
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28th Aug 2020 7:17pm |
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| 90 Dreamer Member Since: 13 Jul 2019 Location: Oop North Posts: 2188 
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It'll be Westoe coal mine your meaning Rashers I would think down at South Shields right on the coast.......
https://www.nmrs.org.uk/mines-map/coal-min...land-area/ Had a few (older) friends that worked down the pit - terrible times |
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28th Aug 2020 7:32pm |
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| Rashers Member Since: 21 Jun 2015 Location: Norfolk Posts: 3566
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That was the one, 90 Dreamer
It always amazed me that mines went out under the sea. To be honest, it still amazes me  |
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28th Aug 2020 7:49pm |
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| blackwolf Member Since: 03 Nov 2009 Location: South West England Posts: 17603
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It is said that in the sub-sea levels of Botallack and Levant mines in Cornwall you could hear the crashing of the waves above your head. That must have been terrifying.
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28th Aug 2020 8:00pm |
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| Rashers Member Since: 21 Jun 2015 Location: Norfolk Posts: 3566
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That’s a brilliant Website, 90 Dreamer.
I have used it to find that my Aunt and Uncles estate was built on the site of the Phoenix Colliery Crawcrook. The sealed shaft is in an area of no mans land between the houses. I apologise as this has gone completely off topic. To bring it back sort of back to the topic, my Uncle when he lived in Norwich worked for Mann Egerton (even then owned by Inchcape) who were the main BL agent for Norwich. He has always purchased Fords  Not sure if his service to a BL dealer clouded his opinion of the marque? |
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28th Aug 2020 8:05pm |
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| Rashers Member Since: 21 Jun 2015 Location: Norfolk Posts: 3566
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I think the thought of having a lot of water over your head is frightening. Hearing the waves, as you say, must have been something else |
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28th Aug 2020 8:09pm |
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| Supacat Member Since: 16 Oct 2012 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 11018
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They must have been shallow mines?
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28th Aug 2020 8:15pm |
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| Supacat Member Since: 16 Oct 2012 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 11018
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It's a small world, my Dad used to work for them in Liverpool ~ no stereotyping but I still have one of their ladders in my workshop.  |
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28th Aug 2020 8:21pm |
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| Supacat Member Since: 16 Oct 2012 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 11018
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Dropped into my in box this morning and quite an interesting read:
https://www.theengineer.co.uk/generating-c...oal-mines/ “Mineshafts have always been a liability, but we look at them in a totally different way now,” Crooks told The Engineer. “When you look at the opportunities that sit around these mines this is no longer a liability: it’s an asset of strategic importance to the UK.” Indeed, the Coal Authority now has around 30 different projects aimed at tapping into the estimated 2.2 million GWh of annually renewing zero carbon geothermal energy held within the mines." Click image to enlarge |
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