Cut Backs ,and Thatchers Funeral

[gonetoearth 5,144]

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

. Never ask that asked when you left to embark on your reeducation

[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*****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

 

I didnt "do ok" I f***ing survived by working hard manual shit jobs all my f***ing life

[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

. Never ask that asked when you left to embark on your reeducation

I took the "Whatever it took to feed the kids" route after the pits closed

[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.

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

my uncle stephan wasnt the biggest of men ( he died 10 yrs ago from fibrositis of his lungs ) was stripping to bath one day and i commented on his stomach muscles .he replied from working laid down in a seam dragging coal back with a pick .he said he used to shit himself when a squeeze came on and could actually feel the walls of the seam pressing in on him

[gonetoearth 5,144]

 

 

 

 

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

 

. Never ask that asked when you left to embark on your reeducation

I took the "Whatever it took to feed the kids" route after the pits closed

. Then why say you like thousands of otherrs got re educted. Carnt get my head round some one from the most militant pit and staunch. Welfare. Pit in the country. With your views. After all your communtity went through and the waste of humane resourses

Good luck to you.

Edited April 17, 2013 by gonetoearth

[j j m 6,536]

well she has gone now what ever any ones thoughts were of her

[gonetoearth 5,144]

 

 

 

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

 

. Never ask that asked when you left to embark on your reeducation

I took the "Whatever it took to feed the kids" route after the pits closed

. Yeh and they closed in 1990. Well after the the strike ,

[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

 

I didnt "do ok" I f*****g survived by working hard manual shit jobs all my f*****g life

well you shouldn't of had to just survive not while folk where making millions on the back of it

[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

. Never ask that asked when you left to embark on your reeducation

I took the "Whatever it took to feed the kids" route after the pits closed

. Then why say you like thousands of otherrs got re educted. Carnt get my head round some one from the most militant pit and staunch. Welfare. Pit in the country. With your views. After all your communtity went through and the waste of humane resourses

Good luck to you.

Mate it would take hours to explain, you say you've driven through the valley you've seen then how lovely and green it is, when I grew up there open sewer pipes spewed into the river there were rats everywhere, now theres otters and trout in that same river, never see old and young miners spewing their lungs up on street corners like I used to as a kid, theres loads of other stuuff I could go into, I'll never be the misty eyed psudo socialist harking back to when to a time when men and kids regularly died underground, I'll leave that to the folk who never lived it

Edited April 17, 2013 by Pedwar

[gonetoearth 5,144]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

. Never ask th. at asked when you left to embark on your reeducation

I took the "Whatever it took to feed the kids" route after the pits closed

. Then why say you like thousands of otherrs got re educted. Carnt get my head round some one from the most militant pit and staunch. Welfare. Pit in the country. With your views. After all your communtity went through and the waste of humane resourses

Good luck to you.

Mate it would take hours to explain, you say you've driven through the valley you've seen then how lovely and green it is, when I grew up there open sewer pipes spewed into the river there were rats everywhere, now theres otters and trout in that same river, never see old and young miners spewing their lungs up on street corners like I used to as a kid, theres loads of other stuuff I could go into, I'll never be the misty eyed psudo socialist harking back to when to a time when men and kids regularly died underground, I'll leave that to the folk who never lived it

. Do you mean like the clean coal tech they have adopted in germany and poland. Were. The regeoration of old industries are booming through investment and retraining and training of the nations work force has taken place. Germany leads the world in clean coal powerd power stations . While we are being fleesed. For all our power. , HOW DIFFERANT IT COULD HAVE BEEN. Edited April 17, 2013 by gonetoearth

[Outlaw Pete 2,224]

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

 

 

Blooody loookshury!!! 'Ole int rowd, we 'ad.

 

 

[Pedwar 320]

Theres 300 years of coal reserves in S.Wales, it'll still be there when the oil and gas become less and less, we will see easier safer ways to mine it, maybe Maggie inadvertantly got it right after...

[twobob 1,497]

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.

thats your opinion but not the majority on here

[gonetoearth 5,144]

Theres 300 years of coal reserves in S.Wales, it'll still be there when the oil and gas become less and less, we will see easier safer ways to mine it, maybe Maggie inadvertantly got it right after...

. No. She got it spot fooking on for her and her builderberg buddies. When the oil and the gas runs out the people extracting are coal wont be english welsh or scotch , Go on guess. Go on

[Pedwar 320]

 

Theres 300 years of coal reserves in S.Wales, it'll still be there when the oil and gas become less and less, we will see easier safer ways to mine it, maybe Maggie inadvertantly got it right after...

When the oil and the gas runs out the people extracting are coal wont be english welsh or scotch , Go on guess. Go on

 

She'll probabley get blamed for that as well...