..My father operated the winding engine at Camerton Colliery which sends the cage up and down the shaft for men and coal. He started working at the pit when he was 14 years of age as a carting boy then went on to controlling a pit pony taking tubs out to the pit bottom to be hauled to the surface. He stayed at the mine until it closed in 1950 going to Old Mills as a winding engine man where he stayed until it closed then he worked all around the area on repairs and installations until the last pit closed in 1973. His brother Gilb bought the Camerton Pit canteen that had only been open for one year, Gilbs wife Glad still lives there.
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