Ayupmeducks
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Wow, some of them used to be bad, many a time busses stopped running and had to walk home from work!
Also we had those thick fogs that hung around the Trent and other small rivers around the city.
One night shift, several of our staff on their way to the pit got "stuck" on the traffic island at Dunkirk where the fire station used to be/still is??
They found the island and couldn't find their way to get off it !!! Took them a while to live that one down, I can tell you!
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I remember Fullagers chip shop on the corner of Sutton street during the early sixties.. one delicacy I partuicularly remember is munching through a delicious hot Sanderson meat pie only to discover underneath a squashed blackclock embedded in the crust..
mmmm.. all that extra protein.. yes we were certainly spoilt in those days !
Do you realise there aren't many youngsters would know what a blackclock is or was these days, and it's mainly a Notts expression??
I know live in the cockroach capital of the world, southern Missouri, and we have the big American browns, plus our old black Nottinham favourite!!
Just a little trivia....I found out recently doing a search that "Blackclock" came from a German word and spread through miners terms.....
Still can't abide the littel critters...Yuckkkkkkkkkk
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Bloody 'ell, gerrin away from subject a bit, I finks Dennis said he was an electrician , then you and me, a bloody nest of us!!! Could be shocking for the other members!
John
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mick2me
Posted on Nov 27 2004, 06:29 PM
Talking of the Trip, Can you remember Stevie the Gay Barman?
He was a real Character. I wonder what ever happened to him?
:D Lot of them about in those days :D Remember Quintin Crisp
I also used to drink at the pub on Kirke-White Street between Ryehill Cottages and London Road, can't for the life of me remember what it was called.Sunk a few pints in the "Stute" too.
B) Would it be one of these >>>>
Cricketers rest Poets Corner The Rifleman The Duke of NewcastleMight have been the Rifleman......Only used to drop by the pubs in town on a pub crawl, so no idea about any of the barmen or maids
Wasn't the pub on the corner of Kirke-White Street and London Road called the Duke of Newcastle????
I used to walk past both pubs everyday when I worked at J Jones rewinds on Daleside Road!! Picked my Daily Mirror and twenty fags up from Kens papershop opposite the school.
Now the "Stute" was another story, more coal mined there than dahn pit! I gave it up as a regular when I saw two pitmen under a table demonstrating to their relatives how a Dowty prop was set!
I did visit other Miners Institutes, some good ones, but Sunday night was always bingo night and was to be avoided at all costs!!!
Talking about the Stute, anyone remember Annie Keelings Beeroff on Briar Street corner of Bosworth Road??? She was a charactor!!
John
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Now here's a topic I think we can all appreciate :o
When I lived down Kirke-White Street East, mine was the Sir Richard Arkwright, near the corner of Kirke-White Street and Arkwright Street.
I also used to drink at the pub on Kirke-White Street between Ryehill Cottages and London Road, can't for the life of me remember what it was called.
Sunk a few pints in the "Stute" too.
TBI and also at the Cricket Grounds pub too.
And lets not forget the Salutation where I once took my girlfriend who was a nurse at the City Hospital, only to be refused service for my girlfriend who was 20 yrs old, because she looke younger. He'd already poured mine, so I told him to stick it where the sun don't shine and walked out!
Trip to Jeruselem Inn!! sandy beer!!
The there was that pub on Green Lane in Clifton near the traffic island.
I was going to type memories, but how many of us can remember the night before
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John Email on way.
I am hoping we get more pit lads on here for you as well.
Ya never know :D
I wuz gonna go dahn pit, but glad i never did.
Me mam would'nt let me join the marines neither :o
Should have heard what Dad said when I asked him if I could go down pit Mick!!!
Gave me a good living and a training that was recognised around the world.....Most tradesmen from the old NCB were some of the best trained skilled men in the world!!
The only thing about the NCB, it made us friggin lazy :o
Will be checking domain names out today Mick!!
John
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I lived next to Hucknall collery back in the 70s does that count :D
Sadley not their any more, the collery not me :lol:I did my basic training up at the old no1 pit, surface, underground and basic workshop stuff for the first year and went to the college near the Linby turnoff.
Sister lives in Huchnall, she used to live down the road from where the Linby pit once stood.
After the first years basic stuff I went to Arnold and Carlton near Gedling Colliery.
Closest I came to Hucknall no2 was the Miners Welfare, used to be a great place in the 60's!
John
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I think its a great idea
Minersreunited :D
I was involved in the sad affairs of 1984 from the outside.
Alan "Archie" Andrews owns a three year old site called "The Miners Reunited" He's an ex pit fitter with his own IT business in New York State.
Mines for information, history etc....
Mick, give me a run down on what your offering please, not interested in smilies and half of what is on the proboards site..
Email me mate..
John
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I am an ex Gedling pit man's ex if that's any help!
I have been down the cage in Gedling pit what an experience that was, made a right mess of my hair it did
Caz
Weren't you wearing your helmet??? Boulby Mine in North Yorks, the upcast shaft was pretty windy when we were descending. It had two 1350 horspower fans situated not far from pit bottom. In the main returns, one would get sandblasted with the force of the air!
John
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My Advice to you, If you are gonna do it properly
Get yerself a domain name before the forums get busy.
Migrating forums later on that system, could prove impossible
If you need help with Domain, I can help.
I have some spare web hosting I can donate for your domain.
This would be 'as is' as it would be free. You could move it on later.
I can also help with Forum setup and software if you wanted the same system
as we use here.
Mick
I knew a couple of Guys at Gedling.
Where were you ?
Thanks for the offer Mick, might take you up on it later.
I served my electrical apprenticeship at Clifton and Cotgrave pits in the 1960's.
John
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No CB when I left the UK in 79 Mick, but I am a licensed ham, call is KM6MB, been licensed now about 13 years. Last time I was over in the UK I did look up a ham mate in Kirkby in Ashfield.
John
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I started a mining forum, if there are any old pit workers as members here its called Coalmine and the URL is http://coalmine.proboards23.com/
If you use an AOL email addy, I would suggest you get a Yahoo of MSN Hotmail account as for some reason AOL email subscribers have been having difficulty obtaining their passwords.
John
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Parts were filmed at the Castle, Old Radford and of course Raliegh Industries when my cousin worked there.
Love to see the movie again, been years since I saw it.
Didn't they have scenes at the Goose Fair on the Forest too??
John
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Were they all small Girls then? :o
My late Mother was, she worked on the "trackless's" as she used to call the trolley buses during the last years of the war.
She used to say when a pole came off the overhead lines that she would refuse to put it back.She had a bad experience being elevated several feet off the ground and had to have the driver help her back down :D
John
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I'm not that old as to be the only one who recalls the corner shop, am I???? :o
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Don't want to upset you but I must be younger than you Ayupmeducks, I don't remember any of them!!
Caz
Won't hold it agin yers Caz :D :D
I'm 1947vintage BTW
John
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I've just set the map as my "wallpaper" on my desk top.
Caz where was Ryehill Street, rings a bell but can't even find it on the map...
I did live in Ryehill Cottages shortly after getting married the first time around..That was off Kirke White Street East, there was a bookies at the top of the Cottages and a pub around the corner towards London Road where a lot of lorry drivers used to go to from out of town.
Before that I lived with Mum and Dad just round the corner on Kirked White Street, next door on the corner of the Cottages, lived an elderly bloke and his wife, she was a bit nutty!!! She would bang on the wall when he was at work and shout "will you stop pushing daiseys through the wall" Wouldn't have bothered me much, but when I was on night shifts trying to get some kip during the day time, got a bit annoying...LOL
John
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When I first got licensed as a ham radio operator in 1991 I got involved in Packet Radio and set up a digipeater with mailbox for use by other hams, 28kbs if I recall All sent and received on the two metre band.(144mhz) Seems the internet has just about killed off packet radio on VHF now.
John
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Dint 'ave to go far to do shopping in the "old days" lol, nearly every corner had it's own grocery shop and just about every third corner was a beer off or green grocers!
And worrabout the local butchers shops! I think every butcher must have been called Reg!!
When me Mam managed the Lady Bay Cleaners on Alfred Street South near the corner of Blue Bell Hill Road, we live opposite Agars green grocers. Little did I know I'd be working with old Harold at Cotgrave pit where he was an electrician. I used to have a crush on his daughter Jennifer, often wondered how she went on.......Many years have passed since then :D
John
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"Err" can you remember in the early 50's after sugar rationing had ceased, me Mam would tek me all over looking for Fry's Crunchies. As soon as shops stocked up on 'em they'd sell out!!
Then there were some confectionary that Lyons brought out, they were in about three different flavours, in the late 50's I don't recall the name of them, but they melted in your mouth, soft and in mint, strawberry and another flavour, something like large Bon Bons. For some reason they weren't on the market very long.
John
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There used to be a small bakery on Woodborough Road just around the corner from Huntingdon Street in the late 50's early 60's that had hot fresh bread. The owner was an Irishman and his missus. We used to spend out daily spending money on a laof of crust bread, or hot buttered mini Hovis's on the way to school!!! Hmmmmm I think it was called O'Shea's bakery, "bin" many years now!
John
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Yep and it were'nt nowt to do with uneconomic pits either!
I was reading an article a short time back by the UK governments advisor on energy, and he was advising the government to rethink opening up many of the close pits. It appears the government is neglecting to plan ahead and North Sea oil and gas are running out!!!
Pray tell me as an ex pitman how one can reopen pits that have been close twenty years or more and flooded with water? The simple answer is, you can't! The coal reserves are sterilized for ever! I spent over 25 years of my life underground and know the problems associated with old workings.
Not to mention the longer the government waits, the less skilled miners are available. Those that were made redundant in the 80's are all nearing retirement age or are retired.
They have a lot to answer for, them damned politicians.
Just as an example, it costs somewhere in the region of $60million to install a new coal face with equipment, not taking into account the cost of roadway drivage's. If someone doesn't make a decision soon on Selby, it will be lost forever, billions of tonnes of high quality coal!
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Ayupmeducks
My dad was at Clifton, Patrick Lunn is his name, although his nick name was Sol, it started out as Sally (as in Sally Lunn) but eventually turned into Sol. After Clifton closed he went to work at Gedling. Hated every minute of it, always said that Clifton was 'best little pit in town' !!!
I see if I can pry a few memories out of him.
It sure was, stayed just a few months at Cotgrave just to finish me apprenticeship then left the industry.
Don't recall your Dad, what was his job, might help me to shake the cobwebs from the loft!
I was an electrical apprentice there, started in 1964 and was in the second lot to be "moved out", Did a bit of drawing off and on to Cotgrave in May 1968.
Was a a real shame after the NCB had spent so much money on the drift develepments from 51's main gate area, ready for the driving of the two drifts down to the next seam, which they told us would last 50 years!!!!
I do have some JPEG photos of the pit Mick, including some from the 1890's taken underground, also I'm sure it was Jean who sent me one of the pit after closure. Also managed to get Wollaton Hall to send me some they had, including the diarama photos the feller took for me and emailed me. Managed to get some pland of the underground workings off the Coal Authority a couple of years back of the Deep hard, Tupton and Piper seams.
John
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Here's one for you! Who were the most recorded group in recording history, surpassing the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Abba, Elvis and The BeachBoys all rolled into one!!!!!
Bet no one gets it!!!
Clue .... Motown....
John
Why Did You Decide To Live Overseas?
in Our Caz's Nottingham Ex-Pats Forum
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Ayup Caz, Dennis, Mick and all..Been a while and I see the membership's grown since I was last here.
Hey Caz, are you a member of FR's new chatroom?? If so did you ask Elvis about his chat site????
Just clutching at straws.
Anyroads where did I settle, well first I went to Tassie, then Wollongong, then "over the hill" to Bathurst all in Oz. Then in 89 I brought my bride back to her home country, the USA. Lived in California for a number of years and been down here in Missouri, her home State, for over five years now....Gods own country!
John in sunny cold windy southern Missouri......