Coal mining Manton Colliery.mpg 

I worked in the mines for 17 years they were the best working days of my life

My grandad did 45 years there Harold sanders and my uncle was there Tommy Stocken different breed so proud ❤

Some faces were freezing cold,others boiling hot depending on where you where in the pit,and being semi naked,for many,was the most comfortable way of working for many.yes they were hot,bloody hot at times,and many were deeper than a mile here in the UK at one time.

@Salladsdressing The cheapest energy is that which is self produced. It costs the country nothing to produce its own, it only costs when you import. Importing shifts jobs and money abroad and creates unemployment and social crisis amongst your own people; well done Thatcher!

Joseph Grace (my father) lost his life on the coal face at Manton Colliery Worksop Notts 1955 he was 37 ♥️ Gary Grace 1975..1985 left after the miners strike 👍

Well i had good times in the pit i worked at heamheath and silverdale proud to be one of them men

I picketed at manton colliery in 1984, before the national strike.The issue was about meal break times underground. On speaking to the lads going on shift one of them,a young bloke playing to his mates said ' If your pits aren't any good they deserve to be shut'.I've never forgot that lad, back here in Yorkshire there is a lake and an Aldi where our colliery was. Now i read that there is a B & Q where Manton stood.I wonder where and what life had in store for the eager pit shuttting lad?They do say ' what goes around'.

Excellent. Thanks for posting.

& unfortunately 30 years later , there is a b&q warehouse on the old colliery site , disgusting

both my grandads spent their working lives underground at manton

There is a group on facebook dedicated to Manton Colliery and re connecting the coal miners that worked there, @mantoncollierycoalminers

@xMnP1 "it costs the country nothing to produce it's own" You got to be kidding? =P If you want to build a coal mine then you need to buy equipment, employ hundreds architects, geologists, miners and buy lots and lots of building material. This costs billions and billions of dollars! Then you have to sell the energy produced with a profit so that it pays for everything and for British coal, that price was way higher then energy from abroad. Imports increase exports...economic fact!

My Stepdad is on this clip @ 1:46 on the left Alan Travis bless him..

@salladsdressing, So here we are in 2011 and all uk electricity consumers are moaning about energy prices, Its a direct result of thatcherism. We now have Finland making wind turbines and installing them in the UK and charging the uk consumer for what they produce and don't produce.Well done thatcher again! You need to look beyond the MONEY it blinds you, governments are elected to serve their people ,Social responsibility not personal gain and greed!

One of the first pits I went down as a wire ropeman

I worked there ,,,,and my dad did

Aha at 3:42 the first man walking past is my grandad 👍🏻

isnt this one of the mines lee anderson mp claims he was a deputy? he also claims to have stood on the picket lines with his dad and co..............

ALL SCABS AT MANTON

And 5 years later it was shut.

@Salladsdressing or lets give 100 billion dollars to bankers to waste rather than produce somthing useful like energy for all.

NPLA caused the downfall of British coal mining, loafing, ragging up, chucking a spanner in the works, losing money hand over fist, 1 strip max, if you were lucky, I've done my bit, I get full pay. Then the strike, and branch officials and the village mafia stealing the money and the food while most miners had to put up with £1 and a soup kitchen while their strikemasters were rolling in it, beer swilling, steak noshing, their kids got the train sets, scalectrics, hypocrites. And the thieves became MPs and top councillors, bought themselves guest house in Bridlington while the sheeples were solid and got NOWT. B29s, D21s, T03s, P12s PG33s, PG35s, PG3s, DS1s, DS4s.

I couldnt imagine the youth of today doing that job . Their either 2 depressed to get out of bed or wondering if their male or female

If we look beyond the money, the least appealing energy source would be coal. Between the healthcare costs and social security necessary for miners (who need and deserve every cent of it, since coal mining ain't the easiest or safest job), the emissions and pollution and the problems of mine fires, tailings and the question of sustainability, coal is economically cheap but socially and environmentally expensive.

@xMnP1 Why not buy energy from where Britain can get it cheapest and save 1,3 bllion each year? That is by far the best solution and i am glad Thatcher did just that =)

"high productivity rates" "healthy profits" Yeah...if i get 1.3 BILLION dollars from the government each year (1982) i could also have a high productivity rate and make a healthy profit! =P LOL!!!