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Post by Sam from Kent on Jan 3, 2011 8:37:21 GMT -5
Visited this with my partner, When my partner let it slip that I was an electrician in Kent he checked my back for the ridges implanted by lying up against the transformer to much. He then went on to ask my partner if I came home and said what a hard shift I had had. (We went to Big Pit in Wales and the guide also checked my back..........my partner says it must have been true that we were tired and lazy as they said the same about us in two countries) Had a disagreement with the guide as he would not accept that Tilmanstone in Kent was 3033' deep. sent the evidence on returning home. Whilst underground we saw a heading and the guide explained how they "blew" the heading, we then went around the corner and there was a Beethoven exploder and he asked (looking at me) if anyone knew why it was called a Beethoven. I didn't know and he explained that there were two types of dets, instantaneous and delay, and when firing the heading they went Bang Bang Bang BANG!!!!!!!!!
One of the visitors asked about toilet facilities and he explained that you would s*** on a shovel and cast it in the gob. He asked what we did in Kent and I explained about our buckets with lids to which he remarked " They were posh in Kent!!!"
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Post by John on Jan 3, 2011 13:31:38 GMT -5
I think they should have provided us tradesmen with a sofa in the M/G. At least owners provided us with a proper place to eat our snap "down under", table, bench's to sit on, pie heater and tea urn.  |
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Post by spartacus on Apr 19, 2011 19:32:24 GMT -5
Back in 1986 IIRC we went on holiday in Cornwall. My mate Dave Beck, his missus and two kids, me and my missus. there was a so called "Poldark tin mine" exhibition so we thought, why not?
Walking around, as two coal miners on holiday, I was wearing my "Battle of Orgreave Survivor" Tee shirt which raised a few looks, we heard a machine in the distance. I looked at Dave, he looked at me but we kept sctum because our guide was trying to impress us with his knowledge of mining. At one point he said "We are about 200 feet below the surface now". I looked up and could see daylight around a metal cover....About 15 feet up.
As the noise got nearer he started on about how "in the olden days the miners used to have to drill the seam, smash wedges of kiln dried wood in the holes and wet the wood to break the seam open" which was news to me, you learn something new every day...
Around the corner was some guy using a percussion drill in a hole, part of the "live exhibit" part. "This is the machinery they had to use during the 1800's" he proclaimed. I couldn't stop myself. I said "Mate, that's a Silver 3 and we use the buggers every day at our pit. And if thar mate want's to get anywhere he'd be better off putting a bloody bit on the rod....
Oops...
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Post by colly0410 on Feb 26, 2017 15:30:31 GMT -5
Whilst underground we saw a heading and the guide explained how they "blew" the heading, we then went around the corner and there was a Beethoven exploder and he asked (looking at me) if anyone knew why it was called a Beethoven. I didn't know and he explained that there were two types of dets, instantaneous and delay, and when firing the heading they went Bang Bang Bang BANG!!!!!!!!! !" The guide asked the same Beethoven question to us & looked at me (as an ex miner) for an answer, I also didn't know & he rolled his eyes a bit, even asked if I was sure I didn't know. I can't remember a "bang bang bang BANG!" Just one big "BANG!" & your ears pop from the pressure wave. When I told him I was on the loco's he said "try not to fall asleep like you normally do!" He kept shining his light at me & asking if I was still awake? |
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Post by John on Feb 26, 2017 18:17:37 GMT -5
Whilst underground we saw a heading and the guide explained how they "blew" the heading, we then went around the corner and there was a Beethoven exploder and he asked (looking at me) if anyone knew why it was called a Beethoven. I didn't know and he explained that there were two types of dets, instantaneous and delay, and when firing the heading they went Bang Bang Bang BANG!!!!!!!!! !" The guide asked the same Beethoven question to us & looked at me (as an ex miner) for an answer, I also didn't know & he rolled his eyes a bit, even asked if I was sure I didn't know. I can't remember a "bang bang bang BANG!" Just one big "BANG!" & your ears pop from the pressure wave. When I told him I was on the loco's he said "try not to fall asleep like you normally do!" He kept shining his light at me & asking if I was still awake? |
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