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You'd love Sydney Den, it's like a sauna in the summer months, hot and sweaty. But come winter it's great! Mind you, Darling harbour would be your favourite spot, brew pubs by the dozen!

Huntingdon St was two over to the right, Mansfield road to the left, I forget what the one on the top of the tunnel was.

The wife and I used to have lunch at Touch of Britain in Sacramento California, we would have fish, chips and mushy peas.

Jeeze Den! I was chasing money and gaining experience in my trade, worked at GT Ranby, then the NCB at Clifton and Cotgrave Collieries. Then J Jones Rewinds, Arco Rewinds down Beeston, then Wilson Ford Rewinds in Basford. Beeston Boiler Company, British Gypsum at East Leake. Cleveland Potash in North Yorks. Renison Bell in Tassie, A.I and S wongawilli Colliery near Wollongong then my last employer was the Electricity Commision of NSW at Angus Place Colliery.

No problems Tone, I'd hate to see you posting in a couple of years saying your house was sinking and loads of serious damage when i knew it could have been prevented. It can take years before ground settles above a longwall face. There was a whole street in Hucknall where one side of all the houses sunk one night! Underground they had had a large amount of convergence that closed a whole road up, this is rare but it can happen.

From what I understand by a poster on another site, NO. He left a message on the NUM site appears his solicitor put him on to finding out where Cotgraves workings were and to get the info before committing himself. He's safe though, Cotgrave never went under Bingham.

The Coal Authority is at Berry hill, you can make an appointment to view the abandonement plans for any of the local pits to where you intend to buy. They will show where all workings were and the dates last worked. They are superimposed on a surface street map. You will need at least 300 yards clearance to avoid subsidence. Thats 300 yard circle around the house at least! Don't forget to ask to see all the seam sections worked! most of the pits would have worked several seams within their bounderies.

Just make sure you don't buy a house where there is a liability of subsidence, there were plenty of Collieries in that area!

It's a good browser Mick, but I've found some things it doesn't do around the internet, then i open Explorer and do them from that one.

No don't worry about it Rob..

Hope it's nothing serious Rob, as you know, I'm still recovering from a long nasty illness. Take care!

Took me a fair while, but here it is!

He also restored two cars, a wolsley, i'm sure it had a wooden body, or at least most of it was, can't recall the other car he restored. Static engines are his forte though.

Sounds like you were as bad as me Rog..

The elec engineer I had at Angus Place Colliery in NSW does that Rog, he comes to the States every couple of years or so to static engine meets. He used to have a web page showing his latest rebuilds. I'll have to put you in touch with him!

I don't know how many times I've read James Herriot books Frank, but I still get pleasure picking them up and reading them all over again..

Got me streets mixed up, thanks Mick, Pym street was the one at the top of Turner street. Thats it, my other Gran lived on Raglan Street. Now that was pretty steep!

Now that would have been funny Roger..

Didn't Peas Hill Road change to another name on the north side of St Anns Well Road??? I had a Gran who lived on Dane Street, that ran between Alfred Street Central and that road, then my other Gran lived on one of the steep hills to the right heading away from St Anns Well Road. Can't for the life of me recall it's name.

HI MICK ITS BULLIVANT STREET ST ANNS IM LOOKING FOR, IF YOU HAVE IT MANY THANKS JOHN John, where abouts was Bullivant Street?? I was brought up in a terraced house off Turner Street, that was between Peas Hill Road and Alfred Street South.

Oddly enough, our forecasters are pretty accurate..

I've collected a nice library of books over the years, everything from American civil war, to a 1000 years of British history, and many other topics. I'm also starting to collect old tube ham equipment, which i want to restore and put on air eventually.

When I came out of my time, my "top line" was 18 quid a week for 37 1/4 hours on shifts with face allowance, dirt money, water money and grease money. I left Cotgrave to work at J Jones Rewinds for 40 hours at 18 quid a week, no shifts and no crawling along a low coal face with a tool bag!

Hmm, dunno then Mick!

And what about "shurrup now! or I'll purra flea in yer ear"!