Trevor S 2,003 Posted November 23, 2014 Report Share Posted November 23, 2014 I have a book "Guide to the coalfields 1974" and the companies advertising mining equipment is quite interesting Bubblewrap....does your book mention the organisation called 'Safety In Mines' or SIM? Back in 62, my folks were friends with a fella called Beaumont and his family. They lived in Wollaton and he was the area representative for SIM. Just a question that came to mind with all this talk on mines..................Thanks Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted November 23, 2014 Report Share Posted November 23, 2014 Can't see any adverts & there is no mention in the list of advertisers But "IF" SIM were linked to COSA,NUM or NACODS then they certainly wouldn't be listed in this book. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NewBasfordlad 3,599 Posted November 23, 2014 Report Share Posted November 23, 2014 #74. Not sure of the exact details but there has been mention of a new project in the north east to utilise the vast under sea reserves by turning it into gas in situ and then collecting the gas itself. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted November 23, 2014 Report Share Posted November 23, 2014 Thats nothing new that was done years ago http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/epw054986 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NewBasfordlad 3,599 Posted November 23, 2014 Report Share Posted November 23, 2014 Not quite sure that's the same process, I worked there for a time and the coal was defiantly turned to gas on the surface, not underground. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted November 23, 2014 Report Share Posted November 23, 2014 How are they going to get the coke ovens underground then? :) :) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NewBasfordlad 3,599 Posted November 23, 2014 Report Share Posted November 23, 2014 Beast me, better still how are they going to get the coke out!!! The chap who was talking about it on TV was quite convinced a trial would go ahead, I do remember him saying there would be no underground workers though. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted November 23, 2014 Report Share Posted November 23, 2014 I don't think in all honesty if they would get anybody to go underground these days. They all want jobs in offices working in front of a computer monitor Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NewBasfordlad 3,599 Posted November 23, 2014 Report Share Posted November 23, 2014 True so very true. No one will admit that not everyone is suited to the world of academia. So they go to Uni take a bloody useless degree, end up shelf stacking and then wonder why craftsmen are earning so much more than them. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted November 23, 2014 Report Share Posted November 23, 2014 Trouble was in the bad old days if you lived in certain areas it was the local pit or move. But when the pit went the jobs went and in most cases not replaced Result Ghost towns. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
barclaycon 569 Posted November 23, 2014 Report Share Posted November 23, 2014 Yes. Education, education, education - remember that absolute bollocks from the prophet Tony Blair ? Get all the school leavers to go to University (to get them off the un-employment figures). Rename Colleges of Further Education and Polytechnics as 'Universities'. Encourage meaningless degrees that do nothing for employment prospects and, best of all, get them to pay for it ! (£9,000 a year now isn't it?). Make the famous Universities like Oxbridge (and Nottingham) into earners i.e. to attract foreign students paying through the nose. Difficult not to be cynical isn't it ? The best advice you could give to any school leaver here in London is to get a job on London Transport - where train drivers get £52,000 a year. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NewBasfordlad 3,599 Posted November 23, 2014 Report Share Posted November 23, 2014 I do a lot of work in the NG17 area. So know ell the result of the loss of the mines. Teversal, Skegby, Stanton Hill, the list goes on, and that's without getting into Sutton and Mansfield. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted November 23, 2014 Report Share Posted November 23, 2014 And the best(worst) of it is the generating companies still import millions of tons of coal Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted November 23, 2014 Report Share Posted November 23, 2014 I sometimes think the people who hand out the student loans are a tad stupid A friend of mine decided to up sticks and get a degree from Sussex university which he duly got it aged 64. I Wonder if he will pay the loan back as a pensioner? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted November 23, 2014 Report Share Posted November 23, 2014 Brush still make flameproof transformers and switchgear, Last Brush gear I worked on was the 600Kva FLP transformers and SF6 6KV breakers at Boulby mine in North Yorks. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted November 23, 2014 Report Share Posted November 23, 2014 When I was at Brush Transformers they employed about 650 people. The last I heard was they employed about 60 & had been taken over by Brush Electrical Machines. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
barclaycon 569 Posted November 24, 2014 Report Share Posted November 24, 2014 Do they still do anything for railway locomotives ? It seemed to be a prosperous company when I was at Loughborough in the 70's - doing all kinds of 'power' electric stuff. Then I heard in the 80's that they built the Class 60 loco's that do a lot of the coal and freight haulage. I noticed that they had to lay in a new railway line to the works. Every time I go past it on the train it seems to be part of another company. I think it changed hands again in 2008. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
barclaycon 569 Posted November 24, 2014 Report Share Posted November 24, 2014 Just as a matter of interest, where does all the coal for the Notts power stations come from now that nearly all the pits have closed ? I'm thinking of places like Ratcliffe power station. Is that imported coal ? Where is it brought in from ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted November 24, 2014 Report Share Posted November 24, 2014 Imported through Immingham I think. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
banjo48 928 Posted November 24, 2014 Report Share Posted November 24, 2014 #93 Think I read somewhere recently that we are exporting coal to the UK and Europe now, and soon we will be supplying you LPG. I think the UK are a little worried being tied to Russia for all your energy requirements so now are looking at alternatives. We sell gasillions of liters of natural gas to China in bulk high pressure ships for around 2c a liter (1p) ! not something most Aussies like, as we pay around a $1 a liter at the pump, or more for a cylinder refill. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ashley 288 Posted November 24, 2014 Report Share Posted November 24, 2014 Re number of pit workers, no idea! but in 1939 555,337 worked for the railways, they had 20,612 locos inc 35 diesels, carried 254,000,000 tons of freight, 1,158,318,000 passengers in that year, owned 49,774 houses, and 49,000 road vehicles Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BulwellBrian 107 Posted November 24, 2014 Report Share Posted November 24, 2014 According to the colliery year book 1947 there were 766,300 men working in mines in 1939 of which 604,200 worked underground. Employment peaked in 1920 at 1,226,900 men. Output of coal in 1939 was 231,337,900 tons. Peak output was in 1913 at 287,430,473 tons. Which included 82,521 tons produced in Ireland. The details for local collieries in the year book are:- Manager men underground surface approx output Bestwood N Siddall 1575 500 853,000 Gedling G P Thompson 1450 450 625,000 Linby W E Bowen 745 210 314,000 Babbington H Taylor 600 220 250,000 Cinderhill H Taylor 700 280 260,000 Clifton W Morrell 750 170 250,000 Hucknall 1&2 L R Boyfield 900 290 430,000 Radford W A Jones 320 70 97,000 Wollaton W A Jones 160 60 56,000 That was No.6 Area of the East Midlands Division of the NCB. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BulwellBrian 107 Posted November 24, 2014 Report Share Posted November 24, 2014 Further to #97. Norman Siddall became Chairman of the NCB. Only one shaft existed at Calverton and it was part of Bestwood colliery and Cotgrave was a pipe dream in1947. Bulwell colliery was closed before nationalisation. Babbington and Cinderhill soon became recognised as one colliery called Babbington. The output of all the working collieries increased substantially under the NCB partially due to mechanisation. At various times Babbington, Bestwood, Calverton, Cotgrave, Gedling, Hucknall, and Linby all produced 1 Million tons in a year. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BulwellBrian 107 Posted November 24, 2014 Report Share Posted November 24, 2014 Just as a matter of interest, where does all the coal for the Notts power stations come from now that nearly all the pits have closed ? I'm thinking of places like Ratcliffe power station. Is that imported coal ? Where is it brought in from ? There is still coal produced at Thoresby colliery, also some opencast coal including from Scotland and imported coal through various ports as well as Immingham such as Avonmouth, Hull, and the Mersey. I am not sure of the countries of origin but I would think they include Russia, Poland, USA, Colombia. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
susyshoes 69 Posted November 24, 2014 Report Share Posted November 24, 2014 Had my wedding reception at Station Hotel but best pubs for me in later years were The Bedstead and Plough & Harrow, some great bands played the latter inc Judas Priest who went on to be multi millionare rock stars the Bedstead is now no more, all gone, and they are building a new Co-op on the site Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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