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Post by John on Mar 29, 2012 12:07:11 GMT -5
A good video of the modernization of Gedling Colliery in 1948. Gedling was in Nottingham and the video shows an assembled Meco-Moore Slicer Loader.
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Post by bulwellbrian on Mar 30, 2012 8:14:09 GMT -5
When I knew Gedling Colliery in the early sixties it was winding on both shafts using mine cars and pit bottom and surface was automated by either compressed air or hydraulics.
The film shows how big coal lump were when hand got before shearers ground it up to small stuff. Lovely for house coal and also steam locomotives.
I went underground at Gedling and onto a hand got face in the early sixties, the only hand got face I ever saw.
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Post by bibobs on Mar 30, 2012 11:15:58 GMT -5
Re Gedling. Reorganisation started in1942 with a new No 2 pit bottom with two ton mine cars replacing 15cwt Morris tubs. On the surface new baths opened and a canteen, also and possibly the only one in the country licensed premises behind the lamp cabin called the wet canteen.This operated until 1960 when the surface was reorganised again{ the nearest pub to Gedling was about two miles away}
In 1947 annual production was just under 700,000 tons, between 1952 to 1968/9 the million ton a year mark was passed 16 times.
Bibobs
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Post by John on Mar 30, 2012 11:26:18 GMT -5
Was that the Grey Goose, or better known as "The Mucky Duck" ;D
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Post by bibobs on Mar 30, 2012 11:38:51 GMT -5
No the Goose was opened about the late 1950s and closed last year now demolished. The nearest was the Chesterfield arms in Gedling village or the Travellers Rest on Mapperley Plains not many colliers in there. The Chesterfield has been renamed this year, first the Colliers Arms to which someone objected then three weeks later to the Gedling Inn. Though many pits had pubs or Welfares near the pit entrance I know of no other that had a pub on the pit top. The ast hand filled face was B14s in 1964, PS I have written a history of Gedling {unpublished may do so one day}
Bibobs
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Post by John on Mar 30, 2012 11:56:02 GMT -5
I'm only familiar with the Grey Goose, as we used to frequent it at lunchtime when we were on day release, much to the annoyance of the lecturers at Arnold and Carlton tech college... ;D
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Post by John on Apr 1, 2012 13:13:14 GMT -5
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned a major safety problem in that video, I cringed when I saw that Meco_ Moore started up and saw that fitter leaning over moving undercutting chains etc...Scary!!!
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