What excellent foresight to capture these images on camera before it all disappeared forever.....you can't beat a bit of British working banter. Thanks for sharing.
My grandad was a miner at sharlston colliery Charlie livingstone I was born round about the time this was filmed a couple of weeks before it closed for good. I have a picture of me as a baby in my pram with my grandad at the top of the shafts after it had closed a picture I will treasure forever the security on the site didn’t want to give my grandad access to the site but they didn’t have a choice lol has my grandad said you will not stop me from coming on here I worked here 20 od years lol brilliant
I left school in 1979 and went straight to the pit. I was working on the coalface in 84 when the strike started . Did 12 months on strike, but look i wonder why after watching this
Great video. I like the guys in what seems to be an engineering workshop and looks very Victorian with the windows. I would have liked the o have worked in the fitters workshop. Wonder what those guys did when this place closed. I love the accents and the speech, the, the, thee, thou, just like in the programme from 1975 called "Sam" that I'm watching. That winding house and motor/engine is seriously impressive
hi i worked in the workshop for 24 years ,yes the building was very victorian but all the machinery was very functional and some very impressive project was built in there ,usually not for the pit
John Tolson. Hi thanks for your reply. I love Victorian/old workshops as they always seem to be the best and the guys in them make the best stuff. Looking at the equipment on the video I bet there was nothing you guys couldn't make! Shame it all had to end after all them years you were there, did u manage to find something after it closed? Bet you missed all the guys, when I Left a big commercial workshop I Used to work at the only thing I missed was the chaps and the equipment and time to Make stuff for ourselves lol
There seems to be an awful lot of people lounging about drinking tea and reading tabloids with idle machinery nearby. Is that why Maggie shut them all?
your not far from the truth, 1980's coalminers got free coal, free transport, free showers, free workwear, nearly free meals, nearly free soap and toiletries, only 7 1/4 hour shift, many underground jobs were sitting around, yes there was some incredibly dangerous and intensive works but when you are only at the actual work place for 4 1/2 hours a day, you'd walk in and have some snap before starting so an hour gone each end of the shift ... yep it is unsustainable. Also pension, endless compensation claims, cheap housing, cheap loans, free medical care, sick notes and early notes galore, free tools and equipment. Noone ever mentions that the deluded/greedy unions killed all the industries.
What excellent foresight to capture these images on camera before it all disappeared forever.....you can't beat a bit of British working banter. Thanks for sharing.
My grandad was a miner at sharlston colliery Charlie livingstone I was born round about the time this was filmed a couple of weeks before it closed for good. I have a picture of me as a baby in my pram with my grandad at the top of the shafts after it had closed a picture I will treasure forever the security on the site didn’t want to give my grandad access to the site but they didn’t have a choice lol has my grandad said you will not stop me from coming on here I worked here 20 od years lol brilliant
Haha, I was a shaftman but never had a television in the cabin, we only had a dartboard to while away the hours when the shaft was on coal work.
Fab vid mate, brought back lots of good memories
Great blokes too.
I left school in 1979 and went straight to the pit. I was working on the coalface in 84 when the strike started . Did 12 months on strike, but look i wonder why after watching this
Thanks for sharing John.
Brilliant I'm s miners kid Dave Clark (nobby) 33yrs parkhill, Walton sharlston, Alerton bywater
Great video. I like the guys in what seems to be an engineering workshop and looks very Victorian with the windows. I would have liked the o have worked in the fitters workshop. Wonder what those guys did when this place closed. I love the accents and the speech, the, the, thee, thou, just like in the programme from 1975 called "Sam" that I'm watching. That winding house and motor/engine is seriously impressive
hi i worked in the workshop for 24 years ,yes the building was very victorian but all the machinery was very functional and some very impressive project was built in there ,usually not for the pit
John Tolson. Hi thanks for your reply. I love Victorian/old workshops as they always seem to be the best and the guys in them make the best stuff. Looking at the equipment on the video I bet there was nothing you guys couldn't make! Shame it all had to end after all them years you were there, did u manage to find something after it closed? Bet you missed all the guys, when I
Left a big commercial workshop I
Used to work at the only thing I missed was the chaps and the equipment and time to
Make stuff for ourselves lol
My mum still got the wrought iron banister decorative frame dad had you all make for him (Ron Oakley)
Brilliant
Life's characters good ol tea supping lads
Someone had a Shyte in me snap box once
There seems to be an awful lot of people lounging about drinking tea and reading tabloids with idle machinery nearby. Is that why Maggie shut them all?
Did you not read the heading.....the last 3 months....do you think anyone give'd a flying fcuk ..the place was shutting down.
your not far from the truth, 1980's coalminers got free coal, free transport, free showers, free workwear, nearly free meals, nearly free soap and toiletries, only 7 1/4 hour shift, many underground jobs were sitting around, yes there was some incredibly dangerous and intensive works but when you are only at the actual work place for 4 1/2 hours a day, you'd walk in and have some snap before starting so an hour gone each end of the shift ... yep it is unsustainable. Also pension, endless compensation claims, cheap housing, cheap loans, free medical care, sick notes and early notes galore, free tools and equipment. Noone ever mentions that the deluded/greedy unions killed all the industries.
Jack Hobson top bloke
16:59
Longrow New Sharlo :)
No wonder it shut. Were you paid to watch TV
So Sorry Thatcher Killed all This .😢😢. Never trust a Tory! .
What was the boiler house for?
the boiler house was for heating all around the colliery
Early on steam for the winding engine too
Not t pit though I remember it being warm down mine though
No good fer cheese sarnies