Billy Connolly - Ashington Colliery - World Tour of England, Ireland and Wales
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Little did I know when I first watched this series Billy, that I would end up living in Ashington. Moved up from the south east 11 years ago. The town itself is a pale shade of it's former self but the locals are fantastic
I'm from there as well, Grandfather worked at Woodhorn Collery, and lived a hundred yards over the way in Woodhorn Road.
My dad worked at a pit a bit further north from Ashington at Ellington, which was flooded mid 60's to extinguish a fire, putting him out of work, causing us as a family to move to Staffordshire.
My grandad worked at the Rising Sun colliery at High Pit, Newcastle, for 52 years.... I'm so glad Billy, who I love, included this in his programme. It was a hard life. My grandma made proggy mats, and I've still got my grandads lamp. My other grandad, in another colliery at Seaton Burn, took care of the pit ponies. Funnily enough, my dad was a plater and welder at Swan Hunter shipyard, Billy was a welder too... 👍✌ from 🇬🇷
This is why I love Billy,complete honesty
Billy in my home town, so proud at what he saw and that he came to see us
Im an ashington guy and a huge billy fan and my grandad was from glasgow like him
Thanks for everything Billy ❤️
1.46 ..that painting Billy is showing women creating a ' proggy ' rug made from or recycled clothes ,bedding etc and is done by shaving down a wooden dolly clothes peg into a spike ( I have my own hand turned one I created on a lathe) and strips of cloth about 2 inch long are pushed & interlocked into the holes in sacking from a grain sack and it's sometimes worked on a frame .There's a more sophisticated technique called ' hookie:'where loops are formed & intricate patterns..I taught both techniques as a volunteer with people experiencing mental health problems in Liverpool years ago...a beautiful wee class and some very creative lovely ladies .x
Love this kind of artwork. Also may i add i love the soundtrack from this series. Wish it was released in full like the soundtracks for World Tour of Scotland and New Zealand were.
My Gran in the 1950's used to make proggy mats usually about 10' x 5' all made from scraps of old coats and clothes
The dangerous bit was my school cap was RED not a common colour in rags, so it used to go missing, and all was revealed when she delivered the next proggy mat to us
They were great and my biggest regret is when my home/parents house ended we left the proggy mats (1990)
They would cost a fortune nowadays, and well they would not have been my Grans anyway☹
I love the way almost every place Billy goes he finds the Art community. I often wonder if he saw any of the Actor Comedian Johnathan Winters paintings. They are wonderful. Billy was Freinds with Robin Williams who looked up to Johnathan Winters was a close Freind to him.
We have forgotten so much that was good for us. Thank you again Big Yin. 🙏🏼
I've always loved those paintings. Snapshots of another time.
Thank you Billy, this brings back fond memories of my grandfather Samuel. Grandfather worked in the coal mines of Alberta starting in his teens well into his fifties. One area he was most fond of was Nordegg Alberta, a beautiful mountainous area with great fishing. I fished many streams with my grandfather well after he retired from the coal mines. He rarely talked about the coal mines he certainly did not want any son or grandchild working under such treacherous conditions. It was only through reading historical papers and talking with my mom and uncles did I learn what my grandfather endured through.
Sir Billy i am from Newcastle and did not know that about the lamp.
Love you.
xx
That proggy mat at 4:15 is gorgeous. I'd be sinfully proud of owning that lovely piece.
I grew up in the little village of Seghill, not too far from Ashington.
I know live in Massachusetts, USA..
On my last visit home, my father and l spent a couple of hours at the Woodhorn museum..and l was most impressed.
I especially enjoyed talking to the ladies who hook the rugs, as l well recall in the 50's my dad would assemble the wooden peices together,, and the neighborhood ladies would sit around would
create those lovely rugs...
Wonderful memories of a dying art.
@@christinecatt5391 Lovely
I used to help my mother make them back in the early 1960s, still had the frame until it was burned during the strike to keep warm,
My granda worked at woodhorn been to the museum many times love the place
That is brilliant upload thanks for the memories
All of the Male side of my Family worked down the pits in Ashington until my Father broke the mould.
So much talent was list in the pit
Are these episodes available to buy on DVD? I'm going to check Amazon UK to see. I love Connolly's personality and demeanor. Great fella.
5:15 ...of that, I have no doubt..!!
PS..just got to add looking at the wonderful proggy& hooky rugs here ,each one weighs an absolute ton..lol.I created one in the 1990' s about 1metre square a really beautiful sun moon & star motif & it took 11metres if fabric to make a 1metre rug..I put it on the floor & then came back with a mug of tea to admire my handiwork...in time to find my Tom cat Felix 🐱 pissing all over it !! Yep ..1months of solid work ,11 metres of fabric & it got binned within an hour !
The angel of the north barring its arse to newcastle as it looks over Wearside
A good metaphor for Newcastle
@@SamuelBlack84 As if wearside is less crap
Anyone know the tune at the start?
RIP Big Yin
He isn’t Dead ☠️
this isn't Ashington Colliery I did my underground pit training there and there is no sign of it now, a modern retail park with McDonald's and Halfords stands on the site, this is Woodhorn Colliery just outside of Ashington near Lynemouth and Ellington, both of which had collieries as well, this is a museum and not that good to be honest, no underground visits just the loco sheds and blacksmiths shop and a underground man riding train that takes people for trips along a stretch of line half a mile long, its OK'ish if you know nothing about coal mining but for this who do its very uninspiring,
Get it right. This is WOODHORN Colliery Museum and NOT Ashington colliery
Angel of the North - hate it, always have. Looks like a giant Oscar statue that some kid glued his Airfix plane wings onto. But it's "art".
Also known as Ashghanistan, if you live there it's like a 3rd world country