whittle colliery
coquet you have recent photos of whittle drift , for pumping do they use the pipe that go's out the drift roof ?. i was one of the men that instoled the pipe from outbye of shilbottle up the supply road (9west i think) up 10 west on the floor until we got to the drift bottom where it was it was bolted to the girders , all the drift work was done in the holidays intween men going down and supplys going down . the men working were geff hawks , bill law (laws) and myself. we said whittle was closeing british coal said no it is just for pumping shilbottle out ,( if someone reopened whittle i wonder if they cuppled into this pipe line whould this pump all the pit out i know it whould take a big pump and SOMETIME.
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