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Post by dazbt on May 18, 2009 3:34:39 GMT -5
Mining lives are brought into focus 18 May 2009 YORKSHIRE'S mining heritage will be celebrated in a new exhibit at the National Coal Mining Museum for England. Living in a Mining Community opens to the public today at the Wakefield museum. The exhibition is part of the celebrations for the museum's 21st anniversary, which also include the annual Miners' Gala. The exhibit includes views of the pit from an outsider's and an insider's eye and shows how it feels to live with the pit on your doorstep. National Coal Mining Museum web page link; www.ncm.org.uk/default.asp |
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Post by John on May 18, 2009 8:21:39 GMT -5
Pity I live so far away, wouldn't mind visiting the museum.
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Post by dazbt on May 18, 2009 10:50:23 GMT -5
Pity I live so far away, wouldn't mind visiting the museum. No excuses John, there is a very reasonable bus service from Wakefield. It is a great day out, plenty to see, trips underground, nature trail, canteen, machinery etc. which reminds me, can you spot the deliberate mistake on this machine (had to steal the pic from someone else's post I'm afraid)  something like ................. the picks are the wrong way round in the cutting drum furthest away in the pic. They've been that way for years now, I can't help but wonder how many of the thousands of ex-colliers who have visited the machine and perhaps never noticed. |
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Post by John on May 19, 2009 16:30:48 GMT -5
Buses?? Do they still have them these days??
What pick?? Jeeze Daz, I'm friggin 62 this year, I can't even see my computer monitor, let alone a tiny pick! ;D
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Post by Ragger on Oct 19, 2012 5:22:43 GMT -5
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Post by John on Oct 19, 2012 6:19:00 GMT -5
Never heard of it Bill, must have been the one before the "Coal Newspaper" dedicated to the Areas and industry.
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Post by Ragger on Oct 19, 2012 9:06:35 GMT -5
Never heard of it Bill, must have been the one before the "Coal Newspaper" dedicated to the Areas and industry. There's some great info, and photo's on it John. I've sent hours just going through the pics. Some of the company adverts bring back memories as well. |
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Post by John on Oct 19, 2012 10:16:33 GMT -5
Never heard of it Bill, must have been the one before the "Coal Newspaper" dedicated to the Areas and industry. There's some great info, and photo's on it John. I've sent hours just going through the pics. Some of the company adverts bring back memories as well.
I wonder who holds all the photos that were taken for that rag? |
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Post by Ragger on Oct 19, 2012 14:36:19 GMT -5
There's some great info, and photo's on it John. I've sent hours just going through the pics. Some of the company adverts bring back memories as well.
I wonder who holds all the photos that were taken for that rag?Good question John. Whoever holds them has a wealth of mining history. I saw the Meco Moore Slicer Loader as well. We may find people we know among the photo's as we go through them. I saw one advert for a bar straightener, I remember using a similar machine at Bates pit. It worked a treat. |
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Post by John on Oct 19, 2012 15:46:05 GMT -5
I agree Bill, there's a good write up on the Meco-Moore Slicer Loader with great photos too.
I wonder who holds all the photos that were taken for that rag? Good question John. Whoever holds them has a wealth of mining history. I saw the Meco Moore Slicer Loader as well. We may find people we know among the photo's as we go through them. I saw one advert for a bar straightener, I remember using a similar machine at Bates pit. It worked a treat. |
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Post by dazbt on Oct 19, 2012 16:19:35 GMT -5
Good question John. Whoever holds them has a wealth of mining history. I saw the Meco Moore Slicer Loader as well. We may find people we know among the photo's as we go through them. I saw one advert for a bar straightener, I remember using a similar machine at Bates pit. It worked a treat. made by Bochum ........... the Heintzmann Flexible Support? |
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Post by John on Oct 19, 2012 17:08:40 GMT -5
Those friction rings brought back memories, I'll bet they weighed a ton too. They were known as "German rings" and had to be hit with a hammer to yield uniformly to weight coming on. They seemed to stand up better that the RSJ type rings though. made by Bochum ........... the Heintzmann Flexible Support? I'd have to find the advert again Daz, but it was a UK company, probably a spoils of war patent they grabbed. Three part supports "U" section and had bolted clamps to hold the sections together. |
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Post by dazbt on Oct 20, 2012 1:26:28 GMT -5
made by Bochum ........... the Heintzmann Flexible Support? I'd have to find the advert again Daz, but it was a UK company, probably a spoils of war patent they grabbed. Three part supports "U" section and had bolted clamps to hold the sections together. Found this on the Net, 1930s Egmont Heintzmann and Heinrich Toussaint introduced the U shaped Flexible Support System and named it the TH System (not sure if the TH refers to Toussant Heintzmann or, Top Hat as it is described in this article) tinyurl.com/8fx9klc |
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