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...
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...
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
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
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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
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
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