National Coal Mining Museum for England
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What are Miner's Checks?
What are miner's checks and how were they used?
Today we're joined by Trevor, one of our Mine Guides, who reveals all by explaining how miner's checks kept miners safe and accounted for underground.
Do you still have your miner's check, or do you have a Caphouse one from our much-loved Underground Tours?
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Voices in the Coalshed: Sonnet for the Collier
มุมมอง 171ปีที่แล้ว
Voices in the Coalshed: We were sad last week to say farewell to our Face to Face: Portraits of an Industry exhibition, but in this week’s Voices in the Coalshed, we’ll give you one last look at the amazing portraiture work featured. Our Volunteer Julia was inspired by Dave Wilder's 'Collier II' and wrote Sonnet for the Collier: Are you interested in joining our Voices in the Coalshed? Please v...
National Coal Mining Museum 15 Seconds
มุมมอง 594ปีที่แล้ว
Find out about the story of coal and how it changed our nation forever. Unearth the stories of life as a coal miner and what it was like to live in a mining community. Every tour ‘darn pit’ is led by an ex-miner with loads of experience under his somewhat heavy tool belt. He’ll unhand you of your ‘contraband’ and take you 140m underground through 180 years of mining, explaining why he has every...
Illumine Video
มุมมอง 105ปีที่แล้ว
Celebrate the start of the festive season! Enjoy the brass band and local choir with mulled wine admiring the lights. Meet Santa when arrives to switch on the lights (Friday) or join the lantern parade (Sunday). www.ncm.org.uk/illumine Part-funded by @mywakefield #LightUpWFD
Voices in the Coalshed: Echoes of the Coalshed
มุมมอง 1662 ปีที่แล้ว
Happy 2 years Voices in the Coalshed! Over the next few weeks, we will be celebrating 2 years of Voices in the Coalshed! Check out Dave, our original Coalshed Poet, as he recalls what coal meant to him in his poem, Echoes of the Coalshed:
FREE Day out
มุมมอง 1722 ปีที่แล้ว
Find out about the story of coal and how it changed our nation forever. Unearth the stories of life as a coal miner and what it was like to live in a mining community. Every tour ‘darn pit’ is led by an ex-miner with loads of experience under his somewhat heavy tool belt. He’ll unhand you of your ‘contraband’ and take you 140m underground through 180 years of mining, explaining why he has every...
Voices in the Coalshed: ‘801-2015’
มุมมอง 892 ปีที่แล้ว
In this week’s Voices in the Coalshed, we welcome Eileen Neil from Heartlines Creative Writing Group who explores the rise and fall of coal with her poem ‘801-2015.’
Bold as Brass
มุมมอง 2332 ปีที่แล้ว
Alex from Brass Bands England sat down with former miner Martin to chat about what Brass Bands mean to them and give you a sneaky peek into what the Bold as Brass contest will be like.
National Coal Mining Museum
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Unearth the story of coal and how it changed our nation forever Reveal the men, women, children, animals and machinery that helped fuel the Industrial Revolution.
See How They Run
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Join us on Sunday 20 March to see what happens when we power up our mighty machines at the National Coal Mining Museum.
Voices in the Coalshed: Dave Alton Snap Tin or Bait Box
มุมมอง 1482 ปีที่แล้ว
From next weekend for a week, events at the museum will be on a food theme as part of our half term Snap Time! events. Today we welcome Dave Alton singing about miners’ snap tins or bait boxes as part of our Voices in the Coalshed series. Voices in the Coalshed is a volunteer-led project explores the language and literature that has been inspired by coal mining and offers an opportunity for ind...
Story Telling: A Very Special Caphouse Christmas
มุมมอง 1512 ปีที่แล้ว
Santa has come to Caphouse to get the coal for the naughty children and Rudolph is feeling really poorly! How will Santa get his present to children around the world? What can the team at the National Coal Mining Museum do to help him? Perfect for families, including children with SEND.
Brushing our ponies
มุมมอง 1992 ปีที่แล้ว
Discover more about how we keep our ponies' coats clean!
The National Coal Mining Museum
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The National Coal Mining Museum
Voices in the Coalshed: Mined Your Language
มุมมอง 3313 ปีที่แล้ว
Voices in the Coalshed: Mined Your Language
Wacky Wednesday: Maurice is Missing Some Words...
มุมมอง 323 ปีที่แล้ว
Wacky Wednesday: Maurice is Missing Some Words...
Voices in the Coalshed: Memories of Gala Day
มุมมอง 1693 ปีที่แล้ว
Voices in the Coalshed: Memories of Gala Day
Voices in the Coalshed: Caphouse Bubbles
มุมมอง 923 ปีที่แล้ว
Voices in the Coalshed: Caphouse Bubbles
Brass Bands, Collieries and The Grand Day Out!
มุมมอง 3393 ปีที่แล้ว
Brass Bands, Collieries and The Grand Day Out!
Wacky Wednesday: The Pit Ponies are Moving!
มุมมอง 723 ปีที่แล้ว
Wacky Wednesday: The Pit Ponies are Moving!
National Volunteers Week: Thank you to our volunteers!
มุมมอง 1603 ปีที่แล้ว
National Volunteers Week: Thank you to our volunteers!
Operating our Steam Winder
มุมมอง 6213 ปีที่แล้ว
Operating our Steam Winder
National Volunteers Week: What our volunteers have to say!
มุมมอง 2263 ปีที่แล้ว
National Volunteers Week: What our volunteers have to say!
Voices in the Coalshed: A Time for Thanks
มุมมอง 953 ปีที่แล้ว
Voices in the Coalshed: A Time for Thanks
Wacky Wednesday: Maurice in the Adventure Playground
มุมมอง 393 ปีที่แล้ว
Wacky Wednesday: Maurice in the Adventure Playground
Voices in the Coalshed : Memory Checks
มุมมอง 1583 ปีที่แล้ว
Voices in the Coalshed : Memory Checks
Welcome Back to the National Coal Mining Museum
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Welcome Back to the National Coal Mining Museum
Wacky Wednesday: A Mining Superhero
มุมมอง 393 ปีที่แล้ว
Wacky Wednesday: A Mining Superhero
Voices in the Coalshed: My Wife Knitting
มุมมอง 1043 ปีที่แล้ว
Voices in the Coalshed: My Wife Knitting
Wacky Wednesday: Earth Day
มุมมอง 153 ปีที่แล้ว
Wacky Wednesday: Earth Day

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  • @philsharp758
    @philsharp758 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Well explained and interesting. Thank you for posting.

  • @bellaputput
    @bellaputput 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    thank you that was really interesting

  • @puddlejumper1360
    @puddlejumper1360 หลายเดือนก่อน

    A Wonder HOW Sheldon is getting on these Days.

  • @davidmaclean2239
    @davidmaclean2239 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Never saw a ghost underground, but I did once touch the hat that a newstart was wearing when he met Scaddie's ghost, in the Lower North West section of Killoch Colliery, Ayrshire, Scotland. It was nightshift and the boy was travelling with a bogey of supplies when he met another miner at a junction. The stranger told the boy to be careful as he, Scaddie, had died at that spot a few years earlier. The boy stopped the bogey, ran out of the section, got up the pit and never returned, but gave his pit helmet to a mate who wore it for years.

  • @karencarroll1324
    @karencarroll1324 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Bert the shirt,your having a laugh😊

  • @MrStroppyninja
    @MrStroppyninja 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    2 million gallons = 9 million litres. At 25 mg/L reduction in iron concentration that's 225 kg of iron removed per day, or 82 tons per year! Do you have to dredge all that rust out of the settling pond and what do you do with it? Iron oxide is currently valued at 2 USD per kg, so that's $164,000 or £130,000. No where near enough to cover the cost of pumps, but an interesting by-product.

  • @stevenlepine1883
    @stevenlepine1883 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Seems a lot of mines had a ghost called laloo? All you needed to do on.Seeing a ghost was to show it a shovel,well that used to make most of the live men I worked with vanish pretty quickly

  • @billyshane3804
    @billyshane3804 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Jimmy Savile was a Bevin Boy

  • @joebudka4870
    @joebudka4870 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It surely takes bravery to work inside mines. You miners have ice running through your veins.

  • @AnthraciteHorrorStories
    @AnthraciteHorrorStories 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great video!

  • @bobjones8372
    @bobjones8372 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I looked at my uncle and 2 cousins with pride and the highest respect. If anyone insulted or belittled them you would have to deal with an enraged little kid, the woke joke mob, just wants to end USA mining half the new regs are just to cause the mine owner and miners endless hassles and expense.

  • @shahidbukhari3759
    @shahidbukhari3759 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hi do you know martin bc i went there today 2024 march 8thwith my class y2A

  • @-FreeMiner-
    @-FreeMiner- 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I would love to work with you on this

  • @andrewbarrett2685
    @andrewbarrett2685 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This old 5th generation coal miner is smiling 😊

    • @AnthraciteHorrorStories
      @AnthraciteHorrorStories 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Where'd you mine at?

    • @andrewbarrett2685
      @andrewbarrett2685 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @AnthraciteHorrorStories south wales 3 collieries all shut...Great days.

    • @AnthraciteHorrorStories
      @AnthraciteHorrorStories 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@andrewbarrett2685 Welsh anthracite? Good stuff man.

  • @MikA-db2
    @MikA-db2 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Stone dust has made some wonderful ghost!

  • @isaacagusta
    @isaacagusta 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Any chance someone knows the name or where to get some of those shin guards.

  • @paulanderson7338
    @paulanderson7338 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Shaft Blacksmith at Hawthorn shaft, loved the job, especially the 6 hour shifts, hard dangerous work, but got home after a shift feeling satisfied that i'd done a decent days productive work. Not much of that about now. The mines had had their day when I left in 1988, wouldn't have missed it and have great memories, but wouldn't want to do it again.

  • @jackking5567
    @jackking5567 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm ex-coal miner and although I've not seen any in coal mines, I have seen ghosts in old mineral mines. The smell of damp tobacco smoke is always a giveaway that somethings happening. You might hear sounds and even light flashing from behind a corner. I've even had stones and small pieces of clay thrown at me. Weirdly it has never bothered me. Above ground and at home yes - this house has something. Random knocking begins, even when others are sat there with me. The knocking comes from a central partition wall. (I live in a detached house) The smell of old fashioned scent can happen and even a hint of cigarette smoke at times. Never seen visible things except what look like random dark patches or shadows from the corner of my eye. The worst time I've ever encountered a spirit was at a disused farm. I was with others and they witnessed that nights events too. Really really threatening stuff and some random things such as a trapped sheep in a building, what sounded like a bull snorting and scuffling toward us and even an horrific smell that churned our stomachs. I never went back to that old farm!

  • @rezna2415
    @rezna2415 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm claustrophobic, it was the worst trip of my life, never again!

  • @johnnyfercik2455
    @johnnyfercik2455 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Yep. I worked at national king coal in southwest ↙️↙️ Colorado. 11 years but now disabled coal miner. Also iv worked in several mines and was in a 5.7 earthquake in Trinidad Colorado in 2011. I was underground and we didn't know until surface was calling and asked about it. Wow and im still alive after idk how many near misses iv had in my career thats over.

  • @lillylouprocter3279
    @lillylouprocter3279 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I went there today for a school trip it was amazinggggg😊🎉

  • @rumpleforeskin7990
    @rumpleforeskin7990 ปีที่แล้ว

  • @Explorations84
    @Explorations84 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very educational. Pity not many are subscribed I hope this changes in time. I recognised you from the big K documentary nice to see your still involved.

  • @CharlesWiiliamson
    @CharlesWiiliamson ปีที่แล้ว

    I did find it interesting. Thank you. Great explanation.

  • @adrinathegreat3095
    @adrinathegreat3095 ปีที่แล้ว

    Conscripted, had to buy your own picks and shovels, got injured you received no pension, no Naffi concessions, no travel warrant to go home on leave, no medal and no recognition. Treated with suspicion, regularly questioned by the police. Failure to comply resulted in jail, when it was over you went home, unlike miltary serving men whose jobs were often by law kept available, it wasn't the case for these men as they were civilians. Records were destroyed in the 50s. And now the same country points it's finger at others saying, look how they treat their civilians they have no freedom etc.

  • @SteDews
    @SteDews ปีที่แล้ว

    Went down last week with Steve as our guide. very knowledgeable and made a great tour for us

  • @richardmabe4186
    @richardmabe4186 ปีที่แล้ว

    Never knew there were so many ghosties underground. Any chance they were methane induced?

  • @lukemorton8431
    @lukemorton8431 ปีที่แล้ว

    I wish they would be more voices of the past with opinions or memories from down the shaft. ❤❤❤

  • @MrConan89
    @MrConan89 ปีที่แล้ว

    When I quit the industry circa 1972 (I was an undermanager) we only had the lamp. As sold state detectors obviously came into use after I had gone, I wonder why the lamp remained in use.

  • @secretsix6
    @secretsix6 ปีที่แล้ว

    i worked in a house while the owner was on holiday i was doing a job in the bathroom i had measured for a piece of pipe an went out to cut it being old i had forgot the number by the time i had got through the door turned round an there it was the loft access door stopping me from getting in now this door needed a key to open it an it was quiet loose i.e. it would swing if you let it go the door was as still as anything, later that day i was clearing my tools away i was in the kitchen an there was door between the kitchen an diner that needed dragging to shut it i turned round in the kitchen to check i had not left anything behind an the door was closed at this point i went cold an scarpered i spoke to the owner when they came home an his wife told me that the priest had been a few times to try an shift it to no avail

  • @CymruEmergencyResponder
    @CymruEmergencyResponder ปีที่แล้ว

    Pete was one of the last at Kellingly Colliery wasn’t he?

  • @bobjones8372
    @bobjones8372 ปีที่แล้ว

    Might be safer if you just welded the gate shut, and just cut your way out when you need to. Safety gone mad, the planned way to end mining, insane regulations all but killed USA mining too, how sad, and an insult to our ancestors, who risked their lives daily, just so their ancestors destroy the job they loved and were so proud of. Glad youre keeping some alive anyway.

    • @totherarf
      @totherarf 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I realise the irony in the comment, but few miners would object to fewer of them getting killed! At one point mining was the 3rd most dangerous occupation ...... it was far safer to be a soldier!

  • @cliffordentwistle2885
    @cliffordentwistle2885 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very clearly put Peter. I remember Peter from when I worked at Rossington Colliery.

  • @LuckyLuqmaan9
    @LuckyLuqmaan9 ปีที่แล้ว

    OH MY GOD I WENT TO COAL MINING MUSEUM IN MY SCHOOL I WENT TO UNDERGROUND SAW BLOOD ON THE WALL HEARD LAUGHING NOISES AND THE WORST BIT I WAS AT THE BACK WITH MY SCHOOL AND WE WERE IN THE HALLWAY THAT THEY SHOWED IN THAT VIDEO WITH OUR LIGHTS AND I TURN AROUND AND I SEE A RANDOM BOY WITH BLUE CLOTHES AND I RAN FOR MY LIFE THIS PLACE IS CURSED DON'T GO ON YOUR OWN!

  • @Developer_rhdevy
    @Developer_rhdevy ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm going tommorow lol I'm terrified been there 1 time not is to get back used to it

  • @jackriley603
    @jackriley603 ปีที่แล้ว

    Bit strange how the locker door in the top left hand corner opens !! 4:52

  • @explodingsausage6576
    @explodingsausage6576 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ghosts don't exist, and anyone who believes in them is an easily-led fool.

  • @charliemcgee9803
    @charliemcgee9803 ปีที่แล้ว

    Looks like Dr suess got into mining machines.

  • @forphilme1
    @forphilme1 ปีที่แล้ว

    Just go one from my mum, knew it was a lamp but didn't know anything about it. Very interesting, thanks.

  • @grumpyoldgit8254
    @grumpyoldgit8254 ปีที่แล้ว

    I remember Pete doing his management training, he aint changed, just grey hahahaha

  • @marktaylor3564
    @marktaylor3564 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for that. Always wondered about why you guys wore that PPE.

  • @bladesman123
    @bladesman123 ปีที่แล้ว

    What happens to all the iron that is removed from the water?

    • @grumpyoldgit8254
      @grumpyoldgit8254 ปีที่แล้ว

      This material is ideal for use in ground remediation projects to immobilise contaminants - such as arsenic, lead and cadmium. It can also act as a replacement for ferric sulphate in waste water treatment and it can even be used as an iron oxide pigment.😉

  • @andykopgod
    @andykopgod ปีที่แล้ว

    The thought of going down that shaft terrifies me.

    • @paballokgame7193
      @paballokgame7193 ปีที่แล้ว

      Me tomorrow 😝

    • @JONESSTI01
      @JONESSTI01 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's sound. Local museum to us in leeds. It's not bad at all.

  • @salalah2418
    @salalah2418 ปีที่แล้ว

    long time since we were held up in bullcliffe wood steve.

  • @eileenhall5078
    @eileenhall5078 ปีที่แล้ว

    i worked at markham no 4 mine at duckmanton derbyshire, i was a tackle lad on reg nights, it was my turn to go on the button, i was alone when i saw a light go past it was like a t juction, but one end ended in the rock face, i went to have a look he didnt come back, it was only a minute from were i was, i got there and no one was there and the lads didnt see anyone ..

  • @karencarroll1324
    @karencarroll1324 ปีที่แล้ว

    Someone's obviously shorted the water out!

  • @davidcameron8163
    @davidcameron8163 ปีที่แล้ว

    Maybe some of those ghosts should haunt the tory government. 🤣🤣🤣

  • @emmascully9850
    @emmascully9850 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you. My Dad was a miner, his occupaton on my birth certificate is Hewer, then he want on to be a shotfirer and Deputy,, S Lancs Coalfield, Ashton in Makerfield and Astley Green.

  • @grahamrobson5454
    @grahamrobson5454 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    i still drive these , very useful machines, we still use them in the remaining ,mines up weardale

  • @kenday4812
    @kenday4812 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I Worked down a Coalmine, Believe me, You would be Surprized the Sayings they said.