Tatsblisters

[tatsblisters 10,934]

7 hours ago, tatsblisters said:

It's a walking stick that colliery management used to carry about a yard long with an indent in the top that an oil lamp that tested for gas could be hooked on to to test for gas in cavities. Some officials used them to prod sleeping button lads.lol

The deputy stick of mine that a good mate gave me when he passed away that was his Father's gave when he retired and he put a coin in the indent at the top.

[Daniel cain 48,464]

brothers just been given an old Diana air rifle while out collecting scrap..put it aside for me,will put some pics up when I get home...

[TOMO 28,462]

6 hours ago, tatsblisters said:

The deputy stick of mine that a good mate gave me when he passed away that was his Father's gave when he retired and he put a coin in the indent at the top.

Used to see them all the time growing up...some of the old fellas from the pit villages used to put badges all over them

[Daniel cain 48,464]

11 hours ago, Daniel cain said:

brothers just been given an old Diana air rifle while out collecting scrap..put it aside for me,will put some pics up when I get home...

A good soak in some oil,remove the rust and some new blueing,be like new... surprisingly it still shoots...still had some punch to send the pellets down the smoothbore barrel

ideal for the youngest lad to cock and shoot a few cans in the back yard.

[tatsblisters 10,934]

9 hours ago, TOMO said:

Used to see them all the time growing up...some of the old fellas from the pit villages used to put badges all over them

I know an old boy who I did my underground CPS with when I first started when he retired they gave him a deputys stick and a Davy lamp and his checks with his number he had had for 46 years he had worked at the pit since being 14 years old. I often think about him as he was one of life's characters you meet in your life to say he had worked down the pit all his life he lived another 23 years after retiring at 60 a lot wernt as lucky.