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I,wouldn't have minded being on the shovel drilling and blasting,i:m from South Wales.

These men worked hard everyday, this is rare in our world today. We were meant to work.!!!!!!!.

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was there at Ellington when this happened

Not much change apart from we have lee of everything now! Thanks WDC and now NCC

Doesn't seem like much is holding up the ceiling

I remember Michael Foot going from the Labour Party, when I was a kid in the 80's. Great Times.

I worked at 2 Coal Mines Tilmanstone Colliery 3033 feet deep and Betteshanger colliery 1900 ft deep. still miss it.

Why the stupid music Piss it off..annoying 😤

Interesting seeing the Meco-Moore Slicer loader, came into being in the 1930's phased out in early 50's, a few thousand were built, but not one has survived the scrap yard. It was the first power loader. I've worked on the AB 16 shearer loader. Finished off in Australia with heavy duty shields both Gullick and Dowty, big beasts, and the AM500HP double ended ranging drum shearers. 2.5 million tons of coal a year faces. There are now faces that produce 8 million tons of coal a year.

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One of my abiding memories of the second pit that I went down was the hydraulic roof/support system moving forward and, occasionally, you could hear the rock falls behind it. The fields above were settling down several metres.

No matter where it was filmed respect for our coal mineing brothers.this was hard work.i started working in 76 come out in 95 thanks were a little different way back then thanks for letting me share. Stay safe.

Thanks for the video of the early longwall. Its the first ive seen that..

Looks like Gloria Oliver at 0.23. Very pretty woman in her day

Please see coal mining in Vietnam th-cam.com/video/2JUOfcy-jUQ/w-d-xo.html

Can you believe it? My uncle worked at the coal face handfilling in the 40’s 50’s and 60’s. After a full shift’s work on days, he would then come home, eat and walk to tend to his allotment for another 4 hours in the summer. On afternoons shift he would tend it in the morning before going to work and on night shift, tend it after waking in the afternoon. He wasn’t a big man but muscle and sinew. These men could work HARD, non stop and never out of breath. They were strong with great endurance and still found time to look after house with decorating etc. I tell you, the FaceBook and Instagram generation couldn’t hold a candle to that generation, they even won a world war against the Axis powers too. “Hard times make strong men, Strong men make good times, good times make weak men and weak men make hard times” We are living in the last part of this phrase now.

The hard work in coal mines was pretty 1976 from there after people joining mining were only playing at being mine workers

Been there, done that and got the body to prove it. The knackered back, every joint hurts, 60% hearing loss, scars all over, white finger and lung fibrosis. Would I do it again given the chance ?? ... You bet I would ! It was bl**dy hard work but workmates and humour beyond compare !

My dad and grandad where coal miners

Looks amazing! I’m sure it would’ve been fun at the time. I wonder if any of my family is in this video.. i was born after the picnics stopped so never went to one but there was a sort of celebration thing on the marketplace a few years back, perhaps that had some relation?

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Very awesome video

My Granddad and uncle were coalminers and I have taught my children about what they did for a job, I’ve even took them underground to see the machinery and techniques that were used at the national coal mining museum in Wakefield. The industry maybe dead in the Uk but it’ll never be dead as long as people are taught about its history. Fair play to all the men women and children who worked in this industry and not forgetting the pit ponies and canaries

i work in a pillar section on the loading crew i remember setting the breaker row of props and watching the cave come at me for the first time!!!!!!!!!!!

Hard American White men doing hard back breaking work. Much respect. Thanks for the upload.

Outstanding archive videos. Many thanks for uploading this!

Fantastic video! Thanks love local history! Id love to see what happened to wallsend in the war x

brings back memories. I remember going to the Miners Picnic with my parents and brother and sister. happy days :)

I was in the pits from 67 to 71, a great industry. Only 4 years the memories are ingrained. So many served good apprenticeships. Many were trained by the NCB and left to work abroad. The foreign currency brought back to the UK was enormous. We lost skilled men with so much knowledge. Loved it.

As an ex miner of 15 years it is great to see our history on here. For me it will never be forgotten

Ecellent archive footage! How on earth can 2,214 people who have watched this,not leave even a token of appreciation,like "Thanks!",for Mark posting this? ! Surely I'm not the only living ex-miner aroond this place! This footage had me jumping oot the way of thi haalage chyne,once it started booncing up and doon...[it didn't on this footage,but it sure as hell DID,when the shearer started cutting through the stone roof or floor as encountered on a faulted area of the coalfyess!!] Not the forst time me Marra's had nasty accidents,the Deputy on one face at Bates was knocked unconcious in the middle of the face when the chain flew from where a chock canopy had pushed it owa ti the face side,in a swalley,then as it whipped back,it hit the deputy on his head just as he reached over the spill-plates on the face conveyor to watch the progress of the shearer......a fatal[for some...] action to take,but almost every miner did the same thing sometime during his shift. Another Marra,a fitter,at Bedlington A pit,a nice lad,had two middle fingers taken clean off one hand as he was tensioning the haulage chain,at the armoured face conveyor head-end,where the chain had an anchorage point. He came straight back to work on the face as soon as his hand healed! I could write loads of stories about nasty accidents happening,and how resilient us lot were,I myself had bad accidents and never even lost a shift,or reported them! Suffered all my life with pain because of that ,and should have had a pension! Mind,I was a young lad and couldn't afford to stay off work,cos in them days there was no great amount of financial help from the "National Assistance"[DHSS...] like there is noo...!

Er......slip of the pen....so to speak!!....should've read..."[ that was in 1961-ish....] " in my previous comment regarding my Wife's employment start year! ...also when my Ma was putting 14 banana sammidges up each night for my bait the next day,I was 15 years aad in 1959-on.[and a quick-growing laddie! working doon the pit!]