Cut Backs ,and Thatchers Funeral

[readie 184]

have to laugh at the south yorkshire demos,take it nobody works in goldthorpe and half of them look like they still worked down the mines,get a wash -have they still not realised it was scargill that shat on them.

[nothernlite 18,077]

Heres hoping Gordon brown gets the same type of funereal if anyone deserved it he does

[Pedwar 320]

exactly johnny .and as soon as i asked which pit ,he logged out .be very interesting to know which pit ..and which village he came from

 

Brookie, I answered your question 10 mins after you asked, you was reading this thread half hour after I asked you a question and still no answer

[pritch 335]

RIP Lady Thatcher from an ex miner who is glad you shut the stinking hell holes they called collieries in S.Wales, an ex miner who's never been out of work in his life, who just got on with things 20 yrs ago instead of f*****g moaning about everything

so why work there then no one forced you to work there,plenty people wanted/needed them jobs,& if you did alright

i would say fair play but tens if not hundreds of thousands didn't.you sound like one of thatchers children a right

selfish cnut,just coz you are ok f**k them that aren't

[pritch 335]

If you hated her politics thats one thing, if you were affected by her policies then i have some sympathy I am not going to do the Monty Python 4 Yorkshireman sketch but I was brought up in a very poor council area and her policies did affect my whole family more than half of which were working in the steel mills throughout this time.

 

The difference between myself and some of the hateful things i have read is was always brought up to respect someone's death.

 

I make no apology either for saying she led us out of probably the worst post war situation this country found itself in and led us away from the diatribe of what was then the union stranglehold of my country we were an absolute laughing stock to the rest of the world before this . Even I can see that if others can't then that's their opinion.

 

I don't care whether you vote for tory or screaming lord such I find disrespecting a dead woman because of politics offensive to her children and grandchildren.

respected for her children are you avin a f****n laugh one a reality show contestant & the other is an illegal

arms dealer who was involved in trying to overthrow a government if it were your lad he'd be in the big house

called a terrorist but coz of who his mam was he's sat in church wi the PM ffs if you can't see owt wrong

in that your beyond help.there's a sayin round here "you can talk to a mon wi a wooden leg but not a wooden

head

[Pedwar 320]

 

RIP Lady Thatcher from an ex miner who is glad you shut the stinking hell holes they called collieries in S.Wales, an ex miner who's never been out of work in his life, who just got on with things 20 yrs ago instead of f*****g moaning about everything

so why work there then no one forced you to work there,plenty people wanted/needed them jobs,& if you did alright

i would say fair play but tens if not hundreds of thousands didn't.you sound like one of thatchers children a right

selfish cnut,just coz you are ok f**k them that aren't

 

In the late 70s early 80s I went to london to march to save nurses job and get better pay for them, I went on every march to save the pits, I worked in a pit that was 100% rock solid behind the strike, what I and others did during the strike could have had us jailed for years, everything Scargill said about pit closures came true but the man was a c**t and shafted every decent hardworking miner in the country, Thatcher did exactly what she said she would....was I happy about it, dont be so f***ing stupid, I suffered same as every f****r else, difference being me and thousands of other miners put it behind us got educated done training whatever it took to feed our kids....Let me tell you something the people who moan the most about pit closures today are people who never set foot underground never mind spend years on thier f***ing knees mining coal....A Thatchers child, dont make me f***ing laugh

[brookie 1,193]

exactly johnny .and as soon as i asked which pit ,he logged out .be very interesting to know which pit ..and which village he came from

 

Brookie, I answered your question 10 mins after you asked, you was reading this thread half hour after I asked you a question and still no answer

here im answering you now .i just had a visitor at my home .i didnt actually work in the pit .but here it goes my passion for the welsh miners goes back to when my great grandfather got killed underground in blackwood .his name george william hemmings .he was killed in a cave in .and trapped under stone that broke his back .he was my mothers grandfather . my mothers father as well as working underground also was a farmer and died from dust in his mid sixties .my mothers eldest brother was in six bells when the roof came in .my uncle was num official at six bells during the strike ,and my mother along with a lot of hardworking wives sisters and mothers set up the gwent food fund based in abertillery and reponsible for fund raising and feeding the families from 44 pits in wales ,my mother and uncle picketed rotterdam docks and stood in picket lines all over the country .it could be found on utube if searched my mother giving a news interview in rotterdam to a reporter by the name of ken rees plus other news interviews with a well known journalist and reporter around at that time by the name of sylvia horn ..the first scab in six bells i think was ken cook his name was painted on the bath walls and stayed there for years and years .the police spirited him away in the night and he lived in abergavenny for years becoming a community bobby the rat as he was .so theres my connection to the welsh miners and communities .i spent most of my childhood on my grandfathers farm in cwmtillery and remember as a kid vividly the pit ponies spending the holidays on my grand dads farm ..i have a great deal of friends and family still there and played rugby there as well.

[gonetoearth 5,144]

 

I worked in Mardy colliery 100 % of the workforce backed the strike no scabs in mardy, what pit was you lads working in during the strike

. Just a qesttion butt. Mardy did not shut till 1990. So when did. You leave. As know lads down thr rhonda. Workerd mardy. So you either took redundency. Or spewd it. Oh and. It was the last deep mine in south wales for the lads who dont know. Ive Past it hundreds of times on the way down. Hunting " Maerdy. " Took years closing it too. Oops just had a phone call never shut till 1996. Edited April 17, 2013 by gonetoearth

[johnny boy68 11,726]

 

exactly johnny .and as soon as i asked which pit ,he logged out .be very interesting to know which pit ..and which village he came from

 

Brookie, I answered your question 10 mins after you asked, you was reading this thread half hour after I asked you a question and still no answer

here im answering you now .i just had a visitor at my home .i didnt actually work in the pit .but here it goes my passion for the welsh miners goes back to when my great grandfather got killed underground in blackwood .his name george william hemmings .he was killed in a cave in .and trapped under stone that broke his back .he was my mothers grandfather . my mothers father as well as working underground also was a farmer and died from dust in his mid sixties .my mothers eldest brother was in six bells when the roof came in .my uncle was num official at six bells during the strike ,and my mother along with a lot of hardworking wives sisters and mothers set up the gwent food fund based in abertillery and reponsible for fund raising and feeding the families from 44 pits in wales ,my mother and uncle picketed rotterdam docks and stood in picket lines all over the country .it could be found on utube if searched my mother giving a news interview in rotterdam to a reporter by the name of ken rees plus other news interviews with a well known journalist and reporter around at that time by the name of sylvia horn ..the first scab in six bells i think was ken cook his name was painted on the bath walls and stayed there for years and years .the police spirited him away in the night and he lived in abergavenny for years becoming a community bobby the rat as he was .so theres my connection to the welsh miners and communities .i spent most of my childhood on my grandfathers farm in cwmtillery and remember as a kid vividly the pit ponies spending the holidays on my grand dads farm ..i have a great deal of friends and family still there and played rugby there as well.

Painted in yellow, I think its still there on our baths just faded.

[Pedwar 320]

Maerdy the village, Mardy the pit, and Tower colliery was the last remaining pit in S.Wales, where I also worked after Mardy (the pit) closed, I was there at the front of all the shit that came to the valleys and the pits took it on the chin and came out the other side

[Blackbriar 8,569]

If you hated her politics thats one thing, if you were affected by her policies then i have some sympathy I am not going to do the Monty Python 4 Yorkshireman sketch but I was brought up in a very poor council area and her policies did affect my whole family more than half of which were working in the steel mills throughout this time.

 

The difference between myself and some of the hateful things i have read is was always brought up to respect someone's death.

 

I make no apology either for saying she led us out of probably the worst post war situation this country found itself in and led us away from the diatribe of what was then the union stranglehold of my country we were an absolute laughing stock to the rest of the world before this . Even I can see that if others can't then that's their opinion.

 

I don't care whether you vote for tory or screaming lord such I find disrespecting a dead woman because of politics offensive to her children and grandchildren.

Poor council area ?......we used to dream of living in a poor council area !

Edited April 17, 2013 by Blackbriar

[scroat 62]

 

exactly johnny .and as soon as i asked which pit ,he logged out .be very interesting to know which pit ..and which village he came from

 

Brookie, I answered your question 10 mins after you asked, you was reading this thread half hour after I asked you a question and still no answer

here im answering you now .i just had a visitor at my home .i didnt actually work in the pit .but here it goes my passion for the welsh miners goes back to when my great grandfather got killed underground in blackwood .his name george william hemmings .he was killed in a cave in .and trapped under stone that broke his back .he was my mothers grandfather . my mothers father as well as working underground also was a farmer and died from dust in his mid sixties .my mothers eldest brother was in six bells when the roof came in .my uncle was num official at six bells during the strike ,and my mother along with a lot of hardworking wives sisters and mothers set up the gwent food fund based in abertillery and reponsible for fund raising and feeding the families from 44 pits in wales ,my mother and uncle picketed rotterdam docks and stood in picket lines all over the country .it could be found on utube if searched my mother giving a news interview in rotterdam to a reporter by the name of ken rees plus other news interviews with a well known journalist and reporter around at that time by the name of sylvia horn ..the first scab in six bells i think was ken cook his name was painted on the bath walls and stayed there for years and years .the police spirited him away in the night and he lived in abergavenny for years becoming a community bobby the rat as he was .so theres my connection to the welsh miners and communities .i spent most of my childhood on my grandfathers farm in cwmtillery and remember as a kid vividly the pit ponies spending the holidays on my grand dads farm ..i have a great deal of friends and family still there and played rugby there as well.

THE PIT PONIES.NOW THAT ANOTHER STORY.

[brookie 1,193]

 

 

exactly johnny .and as soon as i asked which pit ,he logged out .be very interesting to know which pit ..and which village he came from

 

Brookie, I answered your question 10 mins after you asked, you was reading this thread half hour after I asked you a question and still no answer

here im answering you now .i just had a visitor at my home .i didnt actually work in the pit .but here it goes my passion for the welsh miners goes back to when my great grandfather got killed underground in blackwood .his name george william hemmings .he was killed in a cave in .and trapped under stone that broke his back .he was my mothers grandfather . my mothers father as well as working underground also was a farmer and died from dust in his mid sixties .my mothers eldest brother was in six bells when the roof came in .my uncle was num official at six bells during the strike ,and my mother along with a lot of hardworking wives sisters and mothers set up the gwent food fund based in abertillery and reponsible for fund raising and feeding the families from 44 pits in wales ,my mother and uncle picketed rotterdam docks and stood in picket lines all over the country .it could be found on utube if searched my mother giving a news interview in rotterdam to a reporter by the name of ken rees plus other news interviews with a well known journalist and reporter around at that time by the name of sylvia horn ..the first scab in six bells i think was ken cook his name was painted on the bath walls and stayed there for years and years .the police spirited him away in the night and he lived in abergavenny for years becoming a community bobby the rat as he was .so theres my connection to the welsh miners and communities .i spent most of my childhood on my grandfathers farm in cwmtillery and remember as a kid vividly the pit ponies spending the holidays on my grand dads farm ..i have a great deal of friends and family still there and played rugby there as well.

Painted in yellow, I think its still there on our baths just faded.

i went by the other day and for the first time i didnt look . my lads always tell me to shut up dad ffs lol as we go by cos i start to give em the story behind it . when i was a kid i used to sit on a banking on the field above my grand fathers place in the agternoons and never forget the sight of the men walking home from theyre shift in cwmtillery and some of them calling into the blaentillery club and top hat for a couple of pints . how that town and landscape has changed is unbelievable now when you walk over the lakes and remember how it used to be

[pritch 335]

 

 

RIP Lady Thatcher from an ex miner who is glad you shut the stinking hell holes they called collieries in S.Wales, an ex miner who's never been out of work in his life, who just got on with things 20 yrs ago instead of f*****g moaning about everything

so why work there then no one forced you to work there,plenty people wanted/needed them jobs,& if you did alright

i would say fair play but tens if not hundreds of thousands didn't.you sound like one of thatchers children a right

selfish cnut,just coz you are ok f**k them that aren't

 

In the late 70s early 80s I went to london to march to save nurses job and get better pay for them, I went on every march to save the pits, I worked in a pit that was 100% rock solid behind the strike, what I and others did during the strike could have had us jailed for years, everything Scargill said about pit closures came true but the man was a c**t and shafted every decent hardworking miner in the country, Thatcher did exactly what she said she would....was I happy about it, dont be so f*****g stupid, I suffered same as every f****r else, difference being me and thousands of other miners put it behind us got educated done training whatever it took to feed our kids....Let me tell you something the people who moan the most about pit closures today are people who never set foot underground never mind spend years on thier f*****g knees mining coal....A Thatchers child, dont make me f*****g laugh

it ain't just about the miners is it there you go again it's all about you what about folk who relied on the wealth

the mines,docks, steelworks & other big employers generated whole communities. but hey you did ok. so

yeh i stand by my previous statement

[Pedwar 320]

 

exactly johnny .and as soon as i asked which pit ,he logged out .be very interesting to know which pit ..and which village he came from

 

Brookie, I answered your question 10 mins after you asked, you was reading this thread half hour after I asked you a question and still no answer

here im answering you now .i just had a visitor at my home .i didnt actually work in the pit .but here it goes my passion for the welsh miners goes back to when my great grandfather got killed underground in blackwood .his name george william hemmings .he was killed in a cave in .and trapped under stone that broke his back .he was my mothers grandfather . my mothers father as well as working underground also was a farmer and died from dust in his mid sixties .my mothers eldest brother was in six bells when the roof came in .my uncle was num official at six bells during the strike ,and my mother along with a lot of hardworking wives sisters and mothers set up the gwent food fund based in abertillery and reponsible for fund raising and feeding the families from 44 pits in wales ,my mother and uncle picketed rotterdam docks and stood in picket lines all over the country .it could be found on utube if searched my mother giving a news interview in rotterdam to a reporter by the name of ken rees plus other news interviews with a well known journalist and reporter around at that time by the name of sylvia horn ..the first scab in six bells i think was ken cook his name was painted on the bath walls and stayed there for years and years .the police spirited him away in the night and he lived in abergavenny for years becoming a community bobby the rat as he was .so theres my connection to the welsh miners and communities .i spent most of my childhood on my grandfathers farm in cwmtillery and remember as a kid vividly the pit ponies spending the holidays on my grand dads farm ..i have a great deal of friends and family still there and played rugby there as well.

We all lost family and friends down the pits fella, most of the men in my family died in accidents or through mining related illnesses which is why I loose my rag when non miners who never set foot underground glamourize the shit pits that were the Welsh mines