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ricey Joined: 16/05/2009 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
Brookhouse Coal Mine
Posted: 19/05/2009 11:21:09 Reply | Quote started at brookhouse in 1965 mine the parkgate ...spa thorncliffe and other seams allways very unpredictable poor conditions allways in rippings or tunnels usually on the shovel very old fashioned mine long distances travelled to get to coal faces luck if we got 4foot of coal IP: 86.158.158.179 |
JR Joined: 07/03/2008 Location: Lurking near Hereford View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
Brookhouse Coal Mine
Posted: 19/05/2009 16:58:47 Reply | Quote Let me be the first to welcome you to AN. I can only speak for myself but if you can expand on your memory of working at the pit you will be doing a great service to historians not even born yet. That's the real strength of a site, and a community like this. Thanks for posting.  John  -- The voices tell to write this stuff IP: 81.170.114.27 |
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Brookhouse Coal Mine
Posted: 20/05/2009 08:20:44 Reply | Quote here here jr. Ricey - tell us more! -- 'Learning the ropes' IP: 213.146.148.199 |
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Brookhouse Coal Mine
Posted: 20/05/2009 10:02:12 Reply | Quote thanks for the reply brookhouse although quite a new mine had very little development it was linked to the old beighton mine and had its own coking plant the brookhouse shaft was around 440 yards deep and we then had some 3 to 4 miles to get to the faces part way by paddy train rope driven then by foot often having to stoop due to the poor conditions of the roadways in its hey day it had some 1200 men but it soon dwindled when the conditions worstened and the coal became harder to extract in approx 1966 we had abad shaft incident when the new skip winder got lodged in the shaft freed itself and plumeted to the bottom causing untold damage luckily it was only being tested and no one was on board more later atb ricey IP: 86.171.215.113 |
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JR Joined: 07/03/2008 Location: Lurking near Hereford View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
Brookhouse Coal Mine
Posted: 20/05/2009 11:26:01 Reply | Quote I know I'm showing my ignorance and if my penguin avatar could blush he would be, but I don't know which coalfield Brookhouse worked. When you add to your writeup have pity and put me out of my misery !  -- The voices tell to write this stuff IP: 88.110.110.50 |
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ricey Joined: 16/05/2009 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
Brookhouse Coal Mine
Posted: 20/05/2009 11:59:09 Reply | Quote sorry mate very new to this game brookhouse was in the yorkshire coalfield south yorkshire to be exact between sheffield and rotherham IP: 86.171.215.113 |
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