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Old 16-06-2018, 09:24 AM
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The only time I went to the powder magazine was when I did my face training (Y62 topside) to collect the 'powder box' for the days shot firing, never got inside though!
You and I did our face training on the same face probably withing months of each other. Were you with a filler called Dickinson from somewhere over Wansbeck? I recall the more I filled off the slower he went!

We are probably among the youngest in the country to have done the 'old style' longwall mining. Nearly all the other collieries were mechanised by that time. Quite an experience really. I've been around a bit since then; oil refineries, offshore rigs, power stations - nothing even comes close for the unique experience, it's like nothing else.
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