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| Peter Chamberlain Researcher Quote | Reply | This message was updated on 12/31/2002 7:40:47 PM by Peter Chamberlain | New Langley Colliery posted on: 12/16/2002 9:54:44 AM How about some reminiscences about Langley pit can you remember Jock Dow,Duggie Dorne, Norman and Ray Patrick,Harry Bestwick.Freddie Allsop. The Hardy's and Slaney's whole families who worked there Peter C |
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jbest
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replied on: 4/20/2004 10:58:24 AM My dad was Harry Bestwick, he worked there from about 1924 until Feb 1960 when I think New Langley closed. He was on the same shift as his brother George the day he had an accident and broke his back, around 1937 ish. Aunty Emma, George's wife worked in the canteen after his accident. I remember during the 40's 50's the miners would come home in all their muck. Many homes like ours hadn't a bathroom and they used tin baths in front of the fire. I believe it was the late 50's before the baths were put in the pit. |
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Peter Chamberlain
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replied on: 4/20/2004 3:29:58 PM I remember your father he was the Pit bottom deputy and as young 15 year olds our first jobs were to keep the coal tubs moving on a continuous rope haulage from the pit bottom up to the loader and then back into the pit bottom to be loaded to go up the shaft.Two Bestwicks i recall working there where Trevor and Matt where they your brothers. The pit head baths came around 1958 and the pit had all of its road supports removed within 6 months of it closing in the 1960s.All the miners having been transferred to Ormonde Colliery to work the same coalfaces from a roadway reached via the Ormonde shafts |
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jbest
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replied on: 4/20/2004 8:48:32 PM Neither of the two Bestwick's you mention are any relation. Dad had 3 girls. Uncle Percy also worked there. He was born almost next door to the pit in the Tanyard, do you remember that? |
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bobbrown
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replied on: 4/28/2004 11:59:33 PM My dad, Horace Brown, worked at Langley pit and used to come home at 10.30pm covered in pit dirt. I used to lie in bed awake, listening for him coming down the street in his pit boots! One Sunday morning when I was 12 he took me down the pit, presumably to discourage me from ever wanting to follow in his footsteps - it worked! |
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jbest
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replied on: 4/29/2004 8:45:44 PM Can you remember the NOSO they used to repair their pit trousers, and the old type Snap tins, they always took a bottle of water as well. |
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RMMee
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replied on: 4/29/2004 9:49:01 PM What was NOSO? |
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jbest
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replied on: 5/5/2004 9:28:14 AM NOSO was a creasm in a tube to glue 2 pieces of cloth together, white in colour similar to copydex |
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Azzabuv
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replied on: 9/7/2004 1:12:16 PM 'To sew or Noso' was the (miners) question. Choosing the latter wasn't too bad, once the strong odour had vacated the scene. Azzabuv. 
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Azzabuv
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replied on: 12/29/2004 1:23:46 PM If you go to the end of Hands Rd; (across from where 'IT' was, on the right) and go down the short incline at the beginning/end of Laciefields Rd; at the bottom of it, on the left, was a rough surfaced lane which led to the colliery and a few rows of terraced houses quite near to it. This was in the 1940s. The colliery consisted of half a dozen ram-shackle buildings and railway tracks, situated quite close to the houses. I remember the 'screens' building had a few slates missing and i used to lob stones through it occasionally, till the screen shop manager paid a visit to our house there, one day. Honestly, these spoilsports. There are now quite a few newer houses situated on and around the vanished colliery and terraced houses site to day. Azzabuv. |
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philfred
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replied on: 3/31/2005 3:26:40 PM When I was at Clara Mount Boys School the football pitch used to be behind the infants school which was across the road from New Langley Colliery. Bob Smalley who was our next door neighbour used to work there and moved to Woodside. I remember Bob as a quiet bloke who the gardens in tip top shape. He nearly spoke to me mam one day but the back window was rattled so he said nothing. The story I heard about the closure was that the workings were so close to the surface that blasting on the night shift was waking people up and rattling houses. I used to go to school with Neil Steed, on the closure of the colliery the Steed family moved Chesterfield way. Neil's father was, I think, the Colliery Engineer at New Langley. regards Phil |
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Peter Chamberlain
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replied on: 4/1/2005 7:22:33 AM One of the last faces to be opened at Langley went under Holbrook street.My brother lived on this street and at night he could here the firing in the heads for the rippers to extend the main and tail gates Langley did not actually close a drift was driven into Ormonde and most of the men went down the Ormonde shaft and up the drift to work the same faces. |
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Azzabuv
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replied on: 4/1/2005 7:53:08 AM Peter. Do you remember the names of the Hardy's which you mention in your Header? Azzabuv. |
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Peter Chamberlain
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replied on: 4/1/2005 1:53:10 PM The Hardys at Langley Were a team of rippers Ruled by the old man with his sons Dennis, ?, and Billy. Billy was about the same age as i was so we went through the usual jobs Pit bottom,Loader, Ganging ect Until we were old enough to train for the coalface.Billy went on to work with his dad and i finished up on Afternoons packing.I believe the family came from Heanor dont remember Billy at School but i am sure later they moved onto the BaileyBrook estate at Langley Mill. |
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Azzabuv
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replied on: 4/2/2005 10:31:29 AM I can't place them at all, Peter. They are an unknown off-shoot to me. Azzabuv. |
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Peter Chamberlain
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replied on: 4/3/2005 6:58:09 AM Over 50 years ago when i was a young lad working down Langley pit we had a face numbered 8s it was a god forsaken place with parts of the main gate prone to filling to about 2 to 3ft with water .Being the ganger for this gate my job was to take supplies with a pony to the coal face probabley 6 runs a day at a mile each way.The pony i had at the time would not go through water unless it was led so no chance of sitting on the tram whilst keeping dry it was boots no socks and trousers rolled up as far as poss. No one knew were the water came from and some weeks none at all which to get to the point Azza and Sue could it have been the main drain for Devils Dyke the water was certainly dirty enough and i am sure i saw the odd floral bathing cap floating down there. |
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