Annesley Red
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Bad news for me. Missus just told me we on a cruise on May 25th and that is Cup Final day (Reds are still in the cup).
I never wanted to cruise in the first place.
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ppl wiv no mannuz an bad spellin
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I remember the bad one in the early 60's In Annesley we sledged down the Church Hill and made slides on the school hill. Bad winter ? it was brilliant as a kid. Power cuts , roaring coal fires, and the skin on the rice puddings made in the coal fire oven. Oh and the 'hot-aches'
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We were in the Newmarket having a quick one before the Tom Jones concert and across the road they were queuing like mad to get in the Pryzm ([Palais). Told the young barman we were waiting for the queue to go down. He looked bemused and gave a nervous laugh,
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Big thanks to Stevie Cooper . Got us from the bottom of the Championship to the Premier League and survived the first season.
Great time at Wembley in between.
He will always be a legend in the history of Forest for me (a supporter for over 60 years).
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I' ve heard the fountains on the Square will not be switched back on.... Oh no what shall we do ?
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My Missus and Sister in Law visited Emmerdale recently and they loved every minute. Julie got her picture took with Cain Dingle, I don't think she loves me any more
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£500 and I don't even feel like a pensioner (age 68) but don't tell the government
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I see the tree has gone up in the Market Square. October 30th is this a record.
Time to get the Easter Eggs in now.
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5 hours ago, Oztalgian said:
Yes Beekay, everyone is in shock over England's whupping by the Kiwi's in the world cup.
Yes I thought we'd got a reasonable score and took an early wicket. They looked good at the start then I got my Granddaughter from school got back home and bang its over. Hope the Reds can do the same tomorrow.
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I suppose J27 , M1 which is nearest to home if I was sad enough to reply to this thread
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20 hours ago, Oztalgian said:
They certainly were different seams from those mined in the North or South Notts Areas. In early days in Lancashire the name of the pit was often the name of the seam that was being worked
In the East Midlands some of the seams were known by the name of where they outcropped ie Tupton, m(Low Main ) and probably Brinsley .
Not sure how Waterloo and Hazle got their names . We were told that the coal went deeper to the east and there was coal measures to last a hundred or more years . The plan was to win the coal then sink new shaft and so on. That didn't happen and we were on the dole
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My baseball cap is a Sun Studios one
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In my humble opinion Boyes, Wilkos , B&M and all the other just buy cheap imports from China like the rest and push up the prices when the BBC causes panic. (plant pots are in shortage because the Brazilian petroleum workers are on an overtime ban etc etc etc LOL)
Seriuously.
I do feel sorry for the staff but when the pits closed I had to rethink about my career and life.
Friday morning rant over . Have a good weekend
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Love the NHS. Had a bit of a problem and rang 111 they told me to go straight to A & E. Waited 3 hours for the bloke to tell em to see my doctor in the morning.
I was a step ahead and took a sample of you know what and the Doctor said I should ride the problem out and ignored a rash I had. Missed out I had shingles as well which the missus spotted straight away.
So now I use my wife as my GP but she wont sign me a sick note !!!!!!
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Made money out of faking an orgasm
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Done a couple of Monday Clubs and always wonder how they started
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On 12/18/2015 at 3:35 PM, Ayupmeducks said:
I posted this, this morning elsewhere. To those who don't understand the "jargon" "Magic Carpet" Conveyor belt. "haulage chain" the 22mm heavy chain the coal cutting machine used to haul it's way through a face. Heavy, under spring tension and deadly when it broke....It was replaced eventually by rack and pinion haulage.
"Shearer" was the coal cutting machine.
"AFC" was the face conveyor, used chains in a race with flights of heavy steel to haul the coal off the face.
"Convergence" is when the strata closes up, usually takes months to years to close a road up, but can happen in minutes on a working face..SCARY!!
"Manriders" like trains, the ones I was used to were rail mounted, either hauled by endless rope haulage, diesel or electric battery locomotives.
In a few years time, when you're asked "what was it like "dahn pit" How will you answer them??
It was dark, so dark that when your caplamp failed, it was as close to being blind without being blind.
Noisy, very noisy on the face when the shearer was cutting coal, and yet so quiet that the silence hurt when away from machinery.
Cramped and tiring after crawling up and down a low face, getting cramps in the legs in the worst possible positions.
Wet from continuous drippers from the roof, hot in humid faces, cold in over ventilated faces.
Long walks to and from the coal face through weighted roadways to and from the manriders.
The fear at the back of the mind from fire or convergence all shift.
A ride on the "magic carpet" when there was less chance of being caught by a senior mine official.
That damned haulage chain breaking on the face, broken flight chain on the AFC in 36 inch high faces, or a shearer motor changeout mid face.
Ripping lip, get under it pretty fast in case you get caught in a fall of rock.
That long walk back to pit bottom when the man rider broke down after a hell of a shift.
The sweet smell of haymaking coming down the shaft in Autumn, or fogs and smogs in winter.
That grand ride up the shaft at the end of the shift.
Then that most glorious thing we all loved at the end of a tough shift, a shower, a hot shower!!
Then to the canteen for a hot cup of NCB tea, and a few moments to sort the worlds problems out with a couple of mates, then home.Thats what I was gonna say , well put.
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I'll say what a lot are thinking now in our great City and County
bring back the death penalty.
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I'd rather think it was better music and stands the test of time Cliff
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More or less stopped listening when Dennis MaCarthy died and only have it on for Sport. My Notts County workmate called it Radio Forest
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My first X Ray for the Coal Board was near Babbington Pit (1971) on my medical before starting at the Training Centre. Is that the one you refer to at Bulwell ?
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On 3/3/2023 at 4:42 PM, Beekay said:
A.R., when were you at Annesley pit? Could be possibly I X-rayed you.
I was there from 88 to closure under British Coal, I remember an X Ray in a mobile unit in the car park. My last one maybe in the early 90's. I was satisfactory and later had one for Pneumoconiosis ?? (dustlol) and they said I had lungs of a man ten years younger so 22 years underground I am lucky.
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Thanks Jill and Margie. The pain went for 90 minutes when the Reds won and secured Prem football but I've still got a feeling sunburn after over a week of it. You can't take anything for it but I id try beer at the weekend , that helped lol
Fish and Chip Shops
in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !
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There's a Georges opposite the Badger Box in Annesley, reckon it must be franchise.