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  1. no there was the Amberly, it said biscotheque on the door & Dennis the DJ from the broughton was the DJ in there [1972]
  2. yep tis me, how ya doin Dougie, my first job in life after school & the only job in my life where every one i met & worked with was sound as a pound. spoke to alka recently, he said he still sees you in't village, have one in the maggies for me. so you're a bus driver now! bit different from driving a shearer & blowing things up with dynamite downt pit-lol. Scargill & thatcher didn't just kill an industry between em the killed a way of life. ttfn.
  3. hi there was Geoff nix's apprentice, him & his mate Jeff steel, on nights on't pit top, after a few bevvies int Station pub, top lads.
  4. hi beccy, i used to work with frank & his mate Dave Lowe, think it was on 9s, i was their apprentice for a while around the early 70s. top bloke ,happy days. kindest regards willo.
  5. yooooo, dougie me ole mate, yep its me! i remember lots o' things we got up to you old hooligan you- hehe. i've been asking alka for years about you, he said he aint seen you in the village so i guess you'd moved away, yep i'm a scarbor'o lad now but been looking on here for afew years & reminiscing. you ever see pete allen or zeb about? i heard roy & brian baker had moved to spain, saw trev cobb here in scarbro' a few years back when you had those bad floods in sheff' he did'nt know where any one was these days either-lol. i guess when we leave brinny its a bit like moving up north on eastenders- we disappear, i remember us in me dads car & i remember racing you on our lambrettas, you looking like you was gonna win & me cheatin' & nearly knocking us both off the things & you not best pleased chasing me down't street like cassius clay, good job i could run in them days-lol' will send you a P.M. with my phone number, really great to see you on here mate.TTFN.
  6. Hi Willo My neighbour Sadie is Arthur Spencer's sister, she was the youngest and is now the only one living, she is 82 years old. If you want to get in touch with her to ask her anything, I'll ask if she would like to exchange emails, okay? hi joto,arthur was a proper nice bloke, i remember being on 10s in the early 70s & we got talking about music & he got us all singing a raucous rendition of chuck berrys my ding a ling! which the colliery manager [who was'nt noted for his sense of humour] & visitors did'nt seem to like much-lol.
  7. yo dougie, how ya doin mate, are you from brinsworth? did you knock around with al hillyard & really good looking guy called steve wilson? hehe! its steve w.
  8. hi there, just had this on 2 tyres [alloy wheels] tyreshop removed tyres cleaned [inner] wheels & coated them [don't know what with] sorted. as said by previous posters- apparrantly alloy wheels are prone to pitting on the rims causing the problem. i was also advised not to use tyreweld/stopleak-etc. as in some conditions this might work but it puts the tyre out of balance & the tyrefitter wo'nt like being covered in it when he removes the tyre! hope this helps,cheers willo.
  9. please read this--http://www.socialismtoday.org/81/miners.html
  10. the only thing thatcher was right about was not having a european superstate [with us included in it], she apparantly had a fear of the NUM causing her grief as they were credited doing to her predecessor [whom she stabbed in the back] 1 ted heath.as for scargil, if he had called a ballot & made the whole thing legal ,maybe we'd still have a mining industry now! as regards subsidising the coal industry, the coal industry was owned by the people of this country & not mrs thatcher,home produced coal was used in power stations [which at the time were also nationalised industries] the idea being that this country was self sufficient.during my time in the mines [early to mid 70s] we were told at college that there was enough coal of the highest grade in yorkshire alone to power the country for 700 years still unmined, the coal we were getting at Treton was so good it had to be mixed with slack [rubbish] or it would burn the grates out in the power stations, the price per tonne [1974] to the power stations £ 6 , at the same time the government were importing coal from poland £14 per ton that had to come to our pit to be mixed with our [yorkshire coal] before it would burn properly in the power stations.The miners at the time were 14th in the national pay scale & imho miners have never been treated fairly by any government of this country.as for the stockpiles of coal that you say no body wanted/needed this was a move by the government to switch to oil & gas fired power stations, thus alleviating the dependency on coal. fast forward to the present day & look at the state we're in now, extortionate fuel bills,our armed forces fighting in the middle east [or where ever there might be oil] perhaps if the main protagonists of the miners strike [thatcher/scargill]had been more sensible we would still be self sufficient in the energy game.P.S. the british empire was built on King Coal.
  11. its true it was Barnsley Bill-lol. here's some of the lads i worked with, Wilf Hallam,Dave Radford, Roger Macdowell, Benji Kray,Todd Dale,Pete Allen,Al Thompson.Bill Ward, Dougie Thompson,Al hillyard, Malcom [ZEB] Dean,Kev DUnkley,Martin Webster, Steve [loz] Lawrence,[we were all at same school-swallownest/aston woodhouse] Jeff Steel,Jeff Nicholson, Stuart Simpson,Derek Bellamy [fitters-surface] Col Haynes, Dave Lowe, Frank Sneezbey Mick Goy ,Dave [mud] Maud whose dad was mod the wath wood paddy driver if i remember correctly] fitters/face, Dennis Nixon, Ray bolton/bunker fitters, Joe perry & arnold Osbourne-[rash- who seemed to hate anyone under 30 years of age-lol] Reg Osbourne.Walt Cone, Arthur Spencer [overman] Jim daly[undermanager] Nosher &Raz [beltmen]all the guys on 10s who let me drive the shearer when i got bored-lol & many more whose names i'l put in when i remember, oops just remembered slasher Howell, who always regaled us with his wartime exploits [he was mentioned in dispatches] & the story doi'n the rounds was that when Slasher went to Buckingham Palace to collect his medals, field marshall Montgomery picked him up in his staff car & as they got within sight of the palace the King turned to Churchill & asked who that was with Slasher? lol happy days,best days of my working life,top people in & out of work.
  12. can't remember mate it was 40 years ago, we were convinced it was a ghost, we were 16 years old & had it drilled into us the worst thing we could do down the pit [short of lighting up et'c] was not to have our self rescuers on [fineable/sackable offence] & the fact was this guy had'nt got 1 on [as you know you could spot the big shiny silver & probably useless cumbersome things a mile off] plus no cap lamp & an oil lamp & old fashioned helmet had us convinced. if it was a joke it was a good 1 & no 1 ever let on!
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