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This needs more views.

beautiful song about cooking eggs and bacon or bangers over the fire in a steam engine's firebox on the fire shovel

Gorgeous engine. Thank you for sharing

Amazing upload, keep this one up, always wanted to hear his version of this

Wow! this left me speechless! i have been waiting so long for this! Thanks for uploading!

Excellent. Thanks for posting

thought it was no.5 area same as NCB fishing club?

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Thanks for the Wonderful& informative story❤🙏🏻

Enjoyed the video David. How did the 3 chaps get down Brinsley in 1970 if the shafts had been closed to winding since 1967? Thanks

Interesting video, memories of train journeys from Mansfield to Kirkby probably around 1960 (age 4). I also remember another incident (maybe 1964 ?) when a train ran away, derailed and continued along Low Moor Rd. Grandfather took me there, 'tracks' formed into the tarmac.

Like train

As an old Kirkby lad I got off a train from Nottingham here in June 2023 to meet a couple of other old Kirkby lads, Geoff Chapman and David Amos for me to gain a bit of a history lesson about the town I was born in but left aged 6 in 1964.

Enjoyed this lovely video David

Wonderful to see it running.

What a fantastic performance! We hope you had a brilliant visit!

We had an old pit pony in a railway carrage on a paddock at the rear of mama's farm . He was almost blind . Has also thrown skittles with muBu at the miners arms which is also long gone .

Great Video

Great Video. I'm new in area

I Dont suppose that radio interview with Mr. Grice is recorded anywhere? What is the correct spelling of his christian name and has anyone recorded his memoirs for posterity? I remember him restoring locos at Loughboro' in late 70s when my Dad used to take me there. His sandwiches were always covered in coal dust fingerprints but he didn't seem to mind!

4 LINES 3 STATIONS 2 rivers starting MAUN / EREWASH my home town

My Grandad, Frank Greasley was a Deputy as the Bentinck Colliery until he died in 1972...

What a great video, thank you for sharing. My Uncle Henry Wright, who lived on Diamond Ave Kirkby, worked at Bentinck pit as a winding man retiring in the early 1980s. I lived in Kirkby myself until the age of 6 when my family moved to Rochdale from our Orchard Road house.

Brilliant video. I moved to South Normanton (technically Derbyshire) from Essex at the begining of last year and being a train driver based at Nottingham, and also a railway enthusiast and someone interested in social and railway history, i've found this extremely interesting

i'm gerrin old, i can't separate Newstead and Annesley, they were very close to each other yes? Not been around there for a while. Wonderful work bro

Thanks so much for posting MuBu, Collieries that used to employ so many and worked for so long maybe 2, 3 or more generations of families working there, many suffering injuries or paying with their lives and besides precious videos like this to remember them, completely forgotten, your doing a great job well done. Shame about the American Adventure as well in a much differant sort of way.

I hope this bit of positive criticism will be taken in good faith. at 8:58 the video audio overpowers your voice recording, you should probably mute the sound of the video so its clearer to hear your narration. Just thought I'd point that out. The video is great thought and its nice to have a bit of light shone on a shed that lets little recognition.

Good video! My Grandad, Kenneth Fleming was an engine man and worked at Kirkby shed. The once told me about the about that time a engine man got shot in the leg during an air raid. I was only a child at the time but he also described how the tender has been shot with the water pouring out of it.

Hi David. A Kirkby Lad here, born and bred. I often bike ride some of the old M&P trackbeds, including one in your vid and the section behind Erewash Street. I've a similar interest in local history and coal in my veins, but not in my knees like my Dad did. I only went down (Newstead) once but I did spend twenty years making pit props. There's what looks like another deviation just after the Park Lane crossing. Am I right? I remember your brother's wild bird paintings too. Geoff.

Interesting stuff. Thanks for the video. I went down to the Bentinck line where the bridge crosses over mill lane a few days ago. Some interesting finds down there such as old signal lighting hidden amongst the trees. The bridge over mill lane looks to be in some disrepair on top of it.

So proud of my hometown also moved to WM but still my home of Pinxton

Enjoyed this video , I worked at markham colliery you could still smell the pit ponies in the old stables 👍

I did a job for bentinck in there pump lodge we’re they had a lot of methane leaking and we stopped it

Shropshire Longwall Mining Dont forget it. Enough said.

was there a few piles of lump coal in the picture at the start of the episode at the back of the piles of coal dust?

that was intresting thank you

very interesting piece of History for the local area

This is a wonderful bit of local history. Both rail and coal were vital to K in A. Are there any pictures of Kirkby Central? I used to live at that end of Southwell Lane and as a 6 year old I went to this station a lot. When older it was at Kirkby Bentinck or down the quarries. I had an "uncle" who was based at the Kirkby shed during the war and until 1955(?) He was Cecil Fairbrother. Does anyone remember him? He was a member of the chapel at the bottom of the aptly named though rather short, "the Hill".

Fascinating video and having moved to Kirkby in Ashfield several years ago I'm always interested in learning more about where I now live. With that thought in mind, I am currently fortunate to be involved in a project to recreate a 4mm scale model of Kirkby Central station which will hopefully be open to the public in late 2021 (assuming this is allowed due to the ongoing pandemic) on the actual site of the old station.

Nice video, thanks for sharing, this old Kirkby lad and railway enthusiast ('exiled' on Merseyside) enjoyed watching it.

I don’t know how true this is but pinxton canal maybe getting reopened I find this sort of stuff very interesting as I live in Sutton

great upload dave

Nice one punk ;)

been a long time since the miners arms

My Grandad first job, was looking after pit ponies, then he went down.

Where ya gooin’ when Ormonde shuts? Ay ya ‘aird yet where yu’ll goo? I ant made mi mind up yet, I ant even asked arh Flo’ Reckon I’ll goo ta Babbington Or worrabarht Moorgreen Them pits ant got long to goo Yeah I know pal what ya mean It dunt matter where ya gooin’ ‘cos you’ll ay ta flit agen Burrifya goo a long way arht Then worra abarht arh Gwen? I had a pal who went ta Calverton, And he come arht all in biles But cud they gerra doctor arht There wont one fa bloody miles Narh they’re stuck arht in country Wi ‘is missus aullers sicknin’ She’s ‘arpin’ on abarht ‘er achin’ back It’s from all that tatar pickin’ And the rate their gerrin’ coal arht narh Them new pits not last forever And if ya see it comin’ arht It’s like a gret black dotteh river Where ya gooin’ when Ormonde shuts Well it’s no gud askin’ Flo And it’s no gud askin’ gaffer ‘cos ee dunt bloody know

I remember watching these ponies every summer on my way to my riding lessons at selston at Ken Haslems stables when I lived at kirkby woodhouse i was always begging my dad for one of these retired ponies but he always said no But we had one in the farm unit at ashfield comprehensive school on sutton road not very far from bentinck And then when we moved to edwinstowe I went to dukeries comprehensive & we had a very old retired pit pony called sheamus & I loved him to bits especially as i got to ride him sometimes 🦄🐴

Amazing voice and bodhran player.

It's a bit black over Bill's Mother's, eh? Thanks for this video. It's important to remember our history.

My grandad, god bless him