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Post by Wheldale on Oct 14, 2011 10:25:34 GMT -5
Took my little boy to caphouse today. Really good visit. Guide told me something interesting, said labour had closed more mines than the conservitives. Does anyone know the actual figures?
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Post by dazbt on Oct 14, 2011 11:54:41 GMT -5
Took my little boy to caphouse today. Really good visit. Guide told me something interesting, said labour had closed more mines than the conservitives. Does anyone know the actual figures? I can't answer that but I would hazard a guess that the guide's statement is likely to correct, I recollect that Lord Robens was responsible for the closure of more than 400 collieries in his 10 years of power throughout the 1960s, the majority being during a labour government. |
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Post by John on Oct 14, 2011 12:04:29 GMT -5
That's true, several reasons for so many closures during that period, shortage of manpower, the NCB were having problems recruiting during the late 50's through the late 60's.
Older collieries had worked out their reserves and were costing serious money to work what reserves were left. ie distance from pit bottom and seam thickness and quality.
Then there were the new "superpits" opening, manpower was short, so some older pits, even though they were still pretty productive, were closed and the manpower transferred to the new pits.
Lord Robens stated years later, the government should have closed even more collieries while they had the union backing
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