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davel
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10 years ago

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32961309

... an interesting story of coal mining.

Dave

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ChrisJC
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10 years ago

Agreed. Reads a bit like one of the cartoons in Viz mind.

Chris.

ttxela
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10 years ago

Could easily have backfired with a 10 year old boy, he might have loved it 🙂

staffordshirechina
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10 years ago

I had a visit at 13 with the Scouts. I enjoyed it and went back to be a mining engineer.......

davetidza
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10 years ago

I went on a church-run visit when we first arrived in Chesterfield - I can't remember which pit. And then I served an apprenticeship with the NCB - and then got out! And then I've been in PDMHS for 40 years.

sinker
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10 years ago

"davel" wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32961309

... an interesting story of coal mining.

Dave

This was on Radio 4 at 0930 this morning. Very good too. Look it up on their "listen again" web page?

Phil.

Yma O Hyd....

jaiyls
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10 years ago

sorry lads just give my thick arse something to click on, save me throwing this laptop against the kitchen wall :curse:
read it but cant listen.

Have you got any blocks boy?

JR
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10 years ago

Hopefully this will save your laptop.:)

"http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05y4f96"

sleep is a caffeine deficiency.

ttxela
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10 years ago

I wonder if as a boy I had been taken to an office and subjected to a stream of fiendishly complex meaningless spreadsheets and endless discussions about emptying canteen dishwashers, I would be working in a coal mine now? :confused:

staffordshirechina
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10 years ago

#10

Quite possibly.
Both Dave and myself had fathers who worked in the Civil Service and working practices and social ideas that we found antiquated and far too 'establishment'.
I was determined that I would not work in the same environment.

Coggy
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10 years ago

#11

My Father was a copper, my only career plan was; I don't want to be a copper

if eight out of ten cats all prefer Whiskas
Do the other two prefer Lesley Judd ?

jaiyls
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10 years ago

#12

JR your a star, ta mate;)

Have you got any blocks boy?

exspelio
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10 years ago

#13

My dad was a collier, when I was 13, he stated "No son of mine will ever go underground!" ----- result - nearly 50 years caving and 10 years hard rock mining, Granddad was a lead miner and told him - "its not the same as a pit", I only wish I could have got my dad down somewhere like Carlswark.

Always remember, nature is in charge, get it wrong and it is you who suffers!.