Jan, Thomas is on the Durham Mining Museum site, fatalities list for Stobswood, with an approx. date of 1945.
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Thanks Alan, spotted that yesterday. Not really any info about him though, unlike some of the other entries. There must be a gap in the online newspapers.
The ones I've got for Stobswood all lived local to the pit, this Thomas is a bit unusual, living at Radcliffe. I wonder if many Radcliffe lads travelled there? |
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Hi chaps ,haven't been on the forum for quite a while and just noticed this post regarding The Burn Fireclay Co Ltd. I worked there nearly 40 years ago , infact I worked there twice ,having left in 78 and returned a year or two later and have lots of info on the company .
The company started in 1923 and closed in 2000. I was lucky enough to sneak into the ransacked office at the time and save some information . A few days later all the contents of the office was burned . The closed site lay dorment for a while before they decided to demolish it . I think Thomsons was the company who dismantled the site ,sadly there was a death . A employee I believe a bulldozer driver was ran over by the same machine . The bricks you mentioned coquet was indeed a type manufactured there .Amongst the many others there was :Hyalaxe ,Burnaxe ,Superaxe, Hardaxe, Sinteraxe all with different quantity's of ingredients such as : Silica, Titania, Aluminia, Ferric Oxide , Lime , Magnesia , Potash, Soda etc . I've done quite a bit of videoing of the area using my quadcopters .....here's a still shot from one of the videos. ....All my Photobucket links are now dead ,as the free service is no longer available.They are now charging $399 per year for photo hosting .Have deleted 152 photos from my Photobucket account . So, the photos I had linked have gone . I am now looking for a new photo hosting service ....another free one .... |
Welcome back Rick. Are your videos on line anywhere?
Some of those bricks I bet must have been specialist refractory bricks. Probably quite rare to find one in the wild now. |
I missed this on my visit to Stobswood. I can be forgiven as you were supposed to not notice it. :D
http://www.coleshillhouse.com/stobsw...ional-base.php |
Interesting link ,coquet . I wonder where that OB is.
Yes , I have a few videos on youtube ,heres alink to one of them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M43uPARvcMg |
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Good question.
What gets me in those films is the carbide cap lamps. There's a guy on the face filling coal with a one inch flame sticking out of the front of his lamp. :eek: |
A problem with those lamps was that whenever a shot was fired the draught blew the light out and it had to be lit again, also a supply of clean water was needed for topping up during the shift.
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Here's the lamp being used in not-so-ideal conditions? :)
Not Stobswood, probably a Scottish Colliery. |
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