Post by fifeminer on Dec 8, 2005 14:11:57 GMT -5
Where I stayed my father told me that in our small area of Kelty which is in central Fife there was 29 pits and mines thats an amazing lot of Mines only ones I remember when I was youngster was The Lindsay,The Aitken,The Flower Mine, The Blairenbathie,The Benarty Mine,The Gask mine,Mary Pit,Lochore Pit,aned the Training pit for young Miners was near Townhill ,ye widnae believe it Ive forgotten its name lolol then Heeps Mine.(this operated in the 80s and was 5ft high and all hand stripping and brushing, no ponys and all hand on hutches and the winch at pithead drew the tubs up,I still have my black hat i had when I was a boy miner in 1955,I miss being in the pits I miss the closeness and brotherhood their was you dont find that elsewhere The Tories didnt just ruin the coalfields they killed off a way of life.