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Old 02-02-2014, 09:26 AM
Alan J. Alan J. is offline
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I would put the incident in the 1957/58 area as I faintly remember it and as you say the pit went electric. This caused a problem with supplying ready charged lamps to the outlying drifts such as East Chevington and Moorhuse as there was no lampcabins there. The colliery van had to be used to transport ready charged lamps for each shift. At Hauxley we continued using acetyline lights untill May 1st 1962 when a country wide rule made electric lights compulsory. Officials and tradesmen and special workers had electric prior to 1962. I remember the Broomhill men who came down in 1961 having to go back to carbide lights again after being used to their electric lights for a few years at Broomhill.
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