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There was also a Notts coal company family who's pits were nicknamed after them, "Shonkey's or Shonkies"? I don't think this particular one was though, as lots of Leen Valley pits were owned by the same family who sank Huncknall numbers 1&2.

The Newcastle area was formerly surrounded by collieries. IIRC, their Ellington Colliery (backdrop for 'Billy Elliott'!) remains operational. Certainly many of their redundant colliers came down to work in the Notts coalfield during the 60's, particularly Cotgrave, Bevercotes and Thoresby - which were our newer mines. Our local owners were the Dukes of Newcastle. Perhaps they never even went to St James's Park! Cheers Robt P. Ellingtons closed Rob, equipment is being recovered at this moment. It was closed last year after over 90 years of coaling. Yep, Newcastle was a coal mining ce

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What did he die of???

I'd heard of that pit when I was serving my apprenticeship for Lord Robens in the 60's. There used to be a footpath from very close to the bus terminus at Bullwell that went all the way through to Hucknall number 1 pit, at that time our training centre. If my memory recalls correctly, someone told me it was off that footpath towards the Bullwell end. The reason I know of the footpath was to save money, just a short walk along it, save half our bus fare, all paid for by my benevolent employer the NCB!

My Late Dad worked at Chilwell Depot as a civilian driver during the latter part of WW2. He was unfit for military service, so learned to drive at the depot and worked as a driver for them. From there he worked as a bread delivery driver for Prices bakery and Co-op bakery, milk man for the Co-op and then went driving trucks for many years. Parazone of Colwick being one company and Gurney's of Carlton being another one, ending up driving for Bartons Transport of Chilwell!!

Me? I'm as fick as two short planks

PS, I used to have a crush on Agar's daughter Jennifer

Don't recall that street Den, then it was a big area.. I went to Blue Bell Hill infants and junior schools then on to Huntingdon Sec school. I was brought up in Kings Lynn Terrace off Turner Street, then when I was about 12, my Mum got the job as Manageress at the Lady Bay dry cleaners, which had just moved from the bottom of Blue Bell Hill, across the road to Alfred Street South, opposite Agars green grocer's shop. Many years later I worked with old man Agar at Cotgrave Colliery!!

No, but the support wire is still there though, note the single light fitting hanging over the road. Suggests after the trolly bus lines were removed.

Try this site Mick for more info on Nottm and the enclosure act. http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/sitemap/c...and_education_2

The houses around Hawthorne and Briar Streets in the old Meadows were built by the Clifton Colliery Company to house their employess BTW.

Just as a pointer for you Mick, although coal had been mined in Notts and Nottm area for many centuries, we never really had a coal industry as such until the early to mid 19th century! So we never had coal communities like Durham, the South Wales Valley's or Northumberland and Yorkshire. The first "deep pit" in the Notts coalfield was probably Cinderhill/Babbington, then the Wollaton Collieries, ie Wollaton and Radford, then the Leen Valley pits around Eastwood and Hucknall. So The Notts coalfield didn't have the community roots of the earlier deep mined coalfields of South Wales and such.

I've never tried Mick, but essentially the enclosure act made land owners enclose their pasture with hedgegrows, thats why British countryside is like it is today. Large parts of what is now St Anns couldn't be subdivided due to the enclosure act. Nottm was surrounded by pasture and farmland and couldn't grow in the 1800's. The landowners being coal miners too, had nowhere to house their colliers and weren't allowed to build houses due to that act. Sure try a search, might clarify further what I've posted. On one of the old maps in that book about Nottm are superimposed the old bounderies, w

Your going to have to wait until I get the boxes out and sort my books out Mick. Plenty of maps of the "enclosure" system and how it kept Nottm from expanding until Parliament repealed the enclosure act.

Sorry to burst your bubble Den, but they couldn't have listened to live matches over the radio from the States them days. Takes me back to when I was a junior at Blue Bell Hill Junior school. The teachers would leave the Redifusion speakers in the halls at lunchtime so as we could listen to the Ashes matches "live" from Australia...Hmmmm yeh... they knew how to use "sound effects!! It wasn't until the 1970's that real live broadcast were possible across the globe. I watched a short, the first, live broadcast in the 70's from the USA to the UK and Europe. Eurovision song contest??? via Telst

There were many places in Nottingham built around a square Mick when my parents were growing up. Thank God they were long gone while I was growing up. Somewhere I have a book about Nottm showing some of them places, most were out on Manvers Street area and Lower Marsh area. Because there was so much disease among those dwellers out there, those places went in the late 20s into the 30's. I remember the streets in St Anns having gas lighting, even a couple of house's in the terrace I lived in off Turner Street having gas lights.

We had a bloke at British Gypsum, the mines resident comedian who told me once he lived in the same village as Jimmy Clitheroe at one time. He said he nearly smacked the conceted little dickhead in the village pub. He told me he had never met anyone so conceted as Jimmy Clitheroe. Don't say much for the little feller off stage does it?

Shame on yer Caz, they hailed from Carlton, he used to live near Prices Bakery. They were ten quid tourists in the 60's Caz. I migrated there in 1979, so they were well set when I arrived, and I had to pay full air fare, they got the scenic cruise treatment.

I used to own 40 acres behind there, three gold mines and a hill.

Driven around most of those roads Den, my cousins winery is at Cassilus, just south of Omeo, in fact my cousins winery IS Cassilus

That takes me back a fair few years Rob, just up the road a little was my old pit. The bus is just about level with the entrance to the Embankment and looks like the feller who was shooting the bus was standing at the entrance to the toll bridge.

Isn't that Frankie Vaughn???

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