Petrified tree stump,

[chartpolski 23,224]

1 minute ago, mC HULL said:

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

Didn’t know there were tin mines in the north east. May have been but I’ve not heard of them.

Cheers.

[mackem 26,261]

28 minutes ago, Bakerboy said:

How deep was it mate

Don’t know the depth mate,I just remember it ran two miles out under the North Sea,I just been looking at data 14 year olds dying down there.

http://www.dmm.org.uk/colliery/w001.htm

[mackem 26,261]

6 minutes ago, chartpolski said:

Didn’t know there were tin mines in the north east. May have been but I’ve not heard of them.

Cheers.

Lead mines up in weardale,never heard of tin mines though,that’s a Cornish thing?

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1 hour ago, chartpolski said:

Didn’t know there were tin mines in the north east. May have been but I’ve not heard of them.

Cheers.

Wow, some hardy blokes to do that job.

It gives  a Londoner like me some understanding of the passion behind the strikes and what it must have meant to a breed of British men who did that job.

Those men and their communities should never have been wiped out, it’s a shame I didn’t have this understanding in my youth, it was a time that a lot of the nation read The Sun and believed it……how naive we were  

[mC HULL 12,238]

2 hours ago, chartpolski said:

Didn’t know there were tin mines in the north east. May have been but I’ve not heard of them.

Cheers.

maybe bloke i was with lying lol 

seen pits all around that area south shields me to birtley ?