Petrified tree stump,

[Daniel cain 44,961]

4 minutes ago, mackem said:

Bottom pic is an ammonite.

I know that matekids are always finding them at our local beaches

[Daniel cain 44,961]

You can find alsorts there.... I've parked up and camped right next to where these recent ones where found

Dunraven Bay: The beach where people keep finding human bones

WWW.BBC.CO.UK

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Human remains have been discovered multiple times along one stretch of Welsh coastline.

 

[Bakerboy 4,601]

35 minutes ago, Daniel cain said:

You can find alsorts there.... I've parked up and camped right next to where these recent ones where found

Dunraven Bay: The beach where people keep finding human bones

WWW.BBC.CO.UK

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Human remains have been discovered multiple times along one stretch of Welsh coastline.

 

Spent most of my childhood summers there, good memories

[tatsblisters 9,416]

On 04/04/2024 at 09:17, Bakerboy said:

Yep, pretty typical for a lot of roads in uk pits back in the day, I remember carrying explosives 2 miles through tunnels like that before starting the actual work lol

Another pic to bring back memories mate.  

[mackem 26,156]

3 minutes ago, tatsblisters said:

Another pic to bring back memories mate.  

As a kid in Sunderland it was an ambition to work down the pit (before it closed)simply because my mates dad worked down there and my mate had a good collection of fossils his dad gave him,the innocence (naivety) of childhood.

[Bakerboy 4,601]

26 minutes ago, tatsblisters said:

Another pic to bring back memories mate.  

Be fun getting the supply journey through there 

[tatsblisters 9,416]

1 hour ago, Bakerboy said:

Be fun getting the supply journey through there 

Rope haulage as well mate I worked on one similar to a gate like that it was a nightmare especially on declines were the steel Rope would wipp into the roof nearly. I think supply lad's job was one of the worst job's in the pit tbh unless you were outby sat on the engine waiting for two other lads to rapp you off to start the engine. 

[WILF 46,551]

On 04/04/2024 at 06:46, tatsblisters said:

Once went down the lowest face we had and thought feck that working on here crouched down on your knees pulling hydraulic chocks in at least on the gates and headings you could stand up all shift. Though the journey to the tail gate I worked on by pony loco with a couple of carriages on certainly woke you up on a Monday morning day shift dodging the tin sheets that had busted out of the steel rings. A pic of the gate similar to what we had to travel down to our place of work. 

Bloody hell, fair play to you lads…..not in a million years could I have done that.

It looks lethal and brutal and backbreaking all in equal measure, don’t know how far underground you were but lads must have been mentally like steel……frighten the life out of me that would. 

[chartpolski 23,079]

There were pits in the Newcastle/Northumberland area that went miles out under the North Sea, a standard joke was “ No wonder the Germans are pissed off with us… we’re pinching their coal “ !

Cheers.

[Bakerboy 4,601]

22 minutes ago, tatsblisters said:

Rope haulage as well mate I worked on one similar to a gate like that it was a nightmare especially on declines were the steel Rope would wipp into the roof nearly. I think supply lad's job was one of the worst job's in the pit tbh unless you were outby sat on the engine waiting for two other lads to rapp you off to start the engine. 

Hard to believe I was working on a back holt in conditions like that at 17

[Bakerboy 4,601]

16 minutes ago, WILF said:

Bloody hell, fair play to you lads…..not in a million years could I have done that.

It looks lethal and brutal and backbreaking all in equal measure, don’t know how far underground you were but lads must have been mentally like steel……frighten the life out of me that would. 

Its all some of us ever knew mate, I was underground at 16 on the coalface a few days after my 18th, lots couldnt cope and finished after a few weeks

[mackem 26,156]

6 minutes ago, chartpolski said:

There were pits in the Newcastle/Northumberland area that went miles out under the North Sea, a standard joke was “ No wonder the Germans are pissed off with us… we’re pinching their coal “ !

Cheers.

Sunderland ran two miles out to sea three and a half miles out from the pit shaft.

[Bakerboy 4,601]

3 minutes ago, mackem said:

Sunderland ran two miles out to sea three and a half miles out from the pit shaft.

How deep was it mate

[chartpolski 23,079]

18 minutes ago, Bakerboy said:

How deep was it mate

I remember an old miner saying “ I like them that shallow, you can look up and see the turnip roots” !

Cheers.

[mC HULL 12,143]

33 minutes ago, chartpolski said:

There were pits in the Newcastle/Northumberland area that went miles out under the North Sea, a standard joke was “ No wonder the Germans are pissed off with us… we’re pinching their coal “ !

Cheers.

never knew it went out to sea chart i up your way you see a few tin mines were they deep