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Bakerboy

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  1. When I started in 77 I was on £21 a week as soon as I turned 18 it went up to £84 a week, my factory working mates were still on 20 odd, I was living like a fckn king til 84/85...
  2. As good as these museums are they are a fair bit different from an actual working pit, no noises, smells,dust, extreme temperatures ect but they will give a good look into what it was like, go and have a look and report back...
  3. I still have them now mate
  4. If you're ever in S.Wales mate Big pit in Blaenavon is an amazing experience, its cage ride to the bottom of a real mine and a guided tour around the districts, worse thing I did was tell the tour guide I was an ex miner fckr wouldnt leave me alone
  5. 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
  6. My old man worked in the 2ft 6 seam, in plces he couldnt turn from working on his back to face down, thought of it makes me cold
  7. Few reports today of migrant stabbings dinghies getting slashed and battles with french police
  8. Cant really remember mate, we didnt name our seams, was just the 4ft or 6ft seam, 6ft was deadly for faults and falls
  9. C@nt Paedophile who raped a schoolgirl, 15, but cannot be deported from the UK back to Albania brags 'I've got no worries here' and says he's glad he can't go back because 'There are lots of bad people there' | Daily Mail Online WWW.DAILYMAIL.CO.UK Asylum seeker Gjin Gjergji, now 52, claimed to be fleeing war-torn Kosovo when he arrived in the UK...
  10. Teacher banned for saying Islam would take over and Westernised girls were ‘lunatics’ WWW.TELEGRAPH.CO.UK Professional misconduct panel sacked Aqib Khan for ‘undermining fundamental British values’
  11. Thought about doing a course a few years ago, never managed to find the time, might give it a go when I retire, good to see something traditional being kept alive
  12. The police are shit scared of the mohamedans and the mohamedans know it
  13. What's a decent price per meter for tiling a bathroom lads
  14. And some afters, Orange ripple, Mint chocolate chip and Rum and raisins
  15. Local cafe under new management be rude not to give it a go
  16. I still have nightmares about travelling through Bath on a Friday afternoon
  17. Been up around Evesham all week everywhere flat was waterlogged, down around Severn beach today was the same
  18. Anyone seen the lovely ramadan lights turned on by that c@nt khan in london that will be up all over easter as a reminder as to who's country this is going to be soon
  19. I fetched a few home for the kids to take to school back in the day
  20. They've got some funny content on their shows, not your typical oppressed black man mentality
  21. I understand all that mate, I just dont understand why some people dont and think its yet another fckn conspiracy
  22. Most of it did mate the vegetation would have been 100s of feet thick all compressed down into a few feet of a coal seam obviously for some reason very little bits became fossilised
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