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Old 27-01-2014, 08:56 PM
phil phil is offline
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Default whittle colliery

I saw the photo's from woodhorn , good photo's . the photo of whittle were you put ; not sure what happening here 1964 ; , is this not where the loco wagons dropped the coal out of the bottom into this hole onto a scrapper whitch took the coal up into the screens. I remember the bad winter at whittle , we were in the manrider going down the drift when it was lifted off the way by ice the steps were straight the same angle as the drift with ice ,some pulled the stop wire it froze on they made us walk down but half of it was slid down ,to be met at the bottom by men trying to get up to tell us not to come down , do you remember 45 gallen drums cut in half filled with burning coal at the drift top to get warm air down the drift to see if it willmelt the ice also they had burning coal on the tracks at the screens under the loco wagons to thore out the coal to get it out of the wagons
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