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 New Langley Colliery
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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