For information this 1974 photograph was taken by Harry Parker on a visit to the Burtree Pasture Mine by the PDMHS. Weardale Lead company personnel from centre, Dennis Thomas - Underground Manager, Jim Peart - Mine Captain and "Tut" Worthington "Maintenance Foreman".

Photograph:

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Whilst I agree with two of those, I think you must have your Worthingtons confused. That is definitely Terry Worthington from Derbyshire and a PDMHS member, not an employee of the mine. He would be 19 at the time.
See other photo from the same week here:
https://www.aditnow.co.uk/Photo/Pdmhs-Visit-August-Bh-Week-1974_103400/ 

A little more on the guys there.
It appears to me that we have David Politt talking to the miners and behind him I am pretty sure is Mike Luff.

John,
The identities are all on the photo header under Burtree Pasture Mine.
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Hi chaps,

If you're looking for naming names, Boy Engineer put a number of Harry snaps on the Burtree Pasture archive album last year, some with names and dates some without (what a surprise). I'm sure that would help him with his project for PDHMS to get more complete info about who, when and what, some people are obvious some only have a back view.

Jim

Staffordshire China,
Point taken.
So why the repeat photo ?

John,
It was DLT miner above who repeated it with names for the two mine employees that were not originally known.
I just knew all the PDMHS names!

Les

Hi chaps,

If you're looking for naming names, Boy Engineer put a number of Harry snaps on the Burtree Pasture archive album last year, some with names and dates some without (what a surprise). I'm sure that would help him with his project for PDHMS to get more complete info about who, when and what, some people are obvious some only have a back view.

Jim

I'll take that as a hint that I ought to pull my finger out and get some of the others uploaded.
:lol::lol:

As if:angel:

As regards working mine visits, all to often the members of the visiting party eg PDHMS and NMRS etc are know but quite often the people on the pics who worked at the mine remain "anons" which is a bit of a shame. If the names can be got then it gives a fuller picture:)

Jim

PS I put a Harry pic into Cambokeels archive of two of their employees and I have no idea who they are so I'd be quite happy for someone to enlighten me.

My apologies - you're indeed correct staffordshirechina! I'm getting my Worthingtons and Rumney's muddled up! I am the Dennis Thomas in the picture and I had, at the time when the photograph was taken in 1974, just joined the Weardale Lead Co. as Underground Manager. Jim Peart was my Mine Captain and Terry Worthington is an absolute spitting image of "Tut" Rumney, who was in our maintenance department. I can now see the differences thanks to looking at the additional photographs - thanks and apologies for the confusion (on my part!). This started a happy association with Harry Parker and the Society that lasted till I left Weardale when ICI sold up to SAMUK. At that point, I was the Manager of the company.

Welcome to Aditnow. Hopefully we'll have some more material of interest coming up.
It would be good to get some information on here about your time with ICI etc; whilst we are fortunate enough to have some contemporary pictures from the 'spar' days, we don't have much commentary from the folk who worked there (notwithstanding Dave Greenwood and others who were at the sharp end). I'll stick this under a separate post as it applies to other areas as well.

Many thanks for the welcome and reply BE and I am very happy to share my recollections from between 1974 until mid 1977 with WLC, where I managed both the Burtree Pasture rehabilitation programme and the Redburn Mine also. In the autumn of 1976, after the drought, I was appointed as Manager of the company replacing Dick Gamble, a position I held until WLC was sold to SAMUK. They were extremely good and happy days in my career I might add! I am very happy to answer any queries that anyone has but apologies if it takes time to reply. Coincidentally, I am just about to start the reopening of an old copper mine, which started in late Victoria times, in central Idaho and I was relating my good experiences with the PDMHS to the local county councillors there last week.

Hi Dennis,
No problem. I am foreground on the left. I was still a mining student then. Currently and for the last 21years I have been British Steels last mine manager. I know it is Terry Worthington as we have been friends and sometime business partners for 50 years this year......
Les

Excellent Les and many thanks! It is indeed a small world and I trust that you and Terry are wearing well! Please give him my best wishes and tell him that I remember this visit very well. Somewhere in the past, I had a photograph that Harry took of me, possibly on this 1974 visit, but I lost it over the years - such is the life of a wandering mining engineer. I am mightily impressed with your pedigree, I might add and the last senior British Steel mining management person I remember was Frank Harrison, back in the late 1970s. Now, as I said in an earlier communication, I am just about to re-open an old copper/gold/silver mine in Idaho - not too dissimilar in many ways to Burtree Pasture but not as old! I, on the other hand, am somewhat older than this picture before us!!
Best wishes to Les and your good self - and to anyone ele reading this from that great time - and they were good times!
Dennis