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namoxo123
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5 years ago

Hi Every ONE,
MY GRAND DAD WAS ALWAYS CALLED SAMMY BUT HIS CHRISTEN NAME WAS WILLIAM, IS WAS WONDERING IF HE HAD ANY CONNECTION WITH THE ESTON MINE ,AS I BELIEVE THE CHAP THAT SOLD THE STICKS OF DYNAMITE WERE NICK NAMED SAMMIES.
IS THERE ANY WHERE I MAY FIND THE REGISTRATION OF EMPLOYED PERSONAL FOR ESTON MINES.(There seems to be other family connections with Eston going back to the late 1800's)

THANK YOU

BILL BARNES

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christwigg
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5 years ago

I'll ask Craig Hornby who made the documentary 'Century In Stone' about Eston if he's ever heard the term used.

I've only ever heard it referring to Sir Bernhard Samuelson who built the Newport Ironworks. The working mens club near those works was known as "Sammys"

https://www.flickr.com/photos/middlesbroughcouncil/5552328797

You might find some employee details in the Teesside Archives in the British Steel Collection, but a huge number of people worked in Eston over the years.

christwigg
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5 years ago

Craig Hornby sent me the following reply :-

Regarding the term "Sammy"...yes a nickname for sabulite used in difficult areas when black powder wasnt powerful enough. Miners bought and carried it but it had be fired by a deputy shot firer with a detonator. In the powder magazine scene of the film Jack Collins mentions Sammy.

namoxo123
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5 years ago

Hi chriswigg

Thank you very much for the info , need to check the registrar
to see if grand dad worked at Eston mines ,

Thanks once again
bill barnes