I Went DOWN THE PIT for my BREAKFAST! 

My first job after leaving school was as an apprentice electrician in the pits.(1976) Was there 10 years until the strikes ended it all. Last month, I celebrated 25 years in my present job. I still regard myself as a miner. If the phone rang tonight to go back tomorrow, I'd go right now. Best job ever. Thanks Lee, had a wee tear in my eye as well.

I grew up in a mining community so loved this. If you ever visit the North of England (County Durham, Cumbria or Northumberland) try the Heritage Tea Rooms in the park at Horden. Great afternoon tea, all home cooked food, and a great little mining museum - and check out the statue in the park. The statue’s significance is wonderful. Fantastic place.

If you really want to go down into a coal mine go to Big Pit in Blaenavon in South Wales. You actually go down in the cage and then walk around underground. Fantastic tour and its free.Highly recommended.

Brilliant video Lee... Takes me back... I was a Steel worker back in the day and remember well the miner's strike... We stood with the miner's as they did with us... Still got the old photo's with Arthur Scargill on a march through London back in the day... Proper men in those days...

Those Men gave their lives for what you have today. Never forget them!

Hi Lee, If you want to experience what it was like down a pit, then i suggest visiting the National Mining Museum in Wakefield. You will ride the shaft about 150m underground and walk the mine to the coal face seeing different mining techniques over the ages. Its a great day out and well worth booking the underground tour. You wont be able to film it though as you cant take electronic items underground. Only 30 mins drive from Leeds.

Enjoyed this video lee 👍🏻. Dark days Miners strike. My husband worked at Cortonwood pit where the strike started. It is now a retail park. Thanks for showing , very informative 👍🏻😎☀️

Very nostalgic. Brought a tear to my eye. My Dad was a collier. He went down the pit in 1926 when he left school at 14 and retired 51 years later. He worked a lot of his life as a ripper, no need to explain what they did, then he was a shotfirer and finally a pit deputy. There’s no sign of the pits he worked at now. The last one is a posh housing estate. Thank you for a very tasteful video.

Beautifully done. The miners strikes were dark days for the UK history .

A strikebreaker (sometimes pejoratively called a scab, blackleg, or knobstick) is a person who works despite a strike. Strikebreakers are usually individuals who were not employed by the company before the trade union dispute but hired after or during the strike to keep the organization running. Strikebreakers may also refer to workers (union members or not) who cross picket lines to work.

Brilliant video Macmaster, capturing the museum was great and together that music, my Grandfather was a miner not ashamed to admit I choked up a bit 😂

Absolutely brilliant Vlog . Love it when you do historical bits .....your passion is FANTASTIC❤👍❤👍👍👍

Walked around that pit yard many times and around the surrounding area, now a nature reserve where the old slagheaps once were . Dated a lass from New Houghton, her father worked at the pit right up to it closing in the 80's. Coming from a mining family, it's great to see the job friends of Pleasley pit have done to preserve the mine.

Both my grandfathers worked down the mine. One at summit pit, injured in 1959 and the other Pleasley pit, both worked the face. Latter died due to emphysema at just aged 54. Hard work, hats off to them ❤. I was just 6 months old when he passed, apparently.

The old mining communities really need to keep things like these going. I grew up in South Derbyshire and pretty much everyone I knew had a dad/ uncle/ grandad who worked at the pit, then in the late 80s the industry didn't just decline, it was wiped out rapidly. We really need to remember and recognise what a massive part of people's lives the pits were in mining areas.

My dad was a miner. Scary job . Respect to everyone who had to do this job. Thanks for bringing this to peoples attention. Oh & the trails round there are great😀

Both of my grand fathers were Welsh coalminers. Probably around 13-14 years old when they first "went down the pit" and started a process that would eventually kill them both from lung ailments at a relatively young age. I guess we can look back on it now with nostalgia. My parents got me a working Davy Lanp for Christmas years ago. I still have it and still use it during power outages.

Brilliant video, Lee, thank you. I’ve been to The Big Pit in South Wales. Went down the mine. Actually made my cry seeing the conditions they used to work in. Would recommend. It’s a great day out 😁🇬🇧

Another great video, Lee. More like this, please. This one really tugged on the heartstrings my grandad's family were miners from Cumbria and my partner's dad and family were all miners from South Yorkshire/Chesterfield.

9/10 no nonsense full English breakfast with lots on the plate. Also looks a interesting place to visit as well. I do like visiting places where heritage is remembered or preserved.

I’m embarrassed to say my generation don’t know what hard work is.

My grandad and an uncle were "downth pit". Hard work in the 1940s. Got to be a ten all day long👍

"Catching up with Lee Sunday" Video nr. 4 Extra points for the Miners and Volunteers: a 10

I love interesting places like this,it’s so emotional.

I love your RU-vid video and your RU-vid channel and your video are awesome and funny and you are awesome too

You should check out the Air Raid Shelter Cafe & Tea Room in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire! An amazing place with food, drink and lots to look at to do with the war, including an air raid shelter replica, train station and car (all of which you can sit and eat in)

Respect Miners. Brilliant.

My Grandmother mover her family to NZ in 1923 so my oldest uncle didn't have to start working at the Mine when he was 14 years old, As for the strikes in the 80's that's nothing some of them are still fighting the Wars of the Roses!

Orgreave strike 84.i used to get school bus and police stop my bus.and as well we used to give water to people outside my house. And we had get food boxes.

I'm 51and remember those days...brilliant vlog

What an amazing place. I quite fancy going here myself. That breakfast looked pretty decent for £7.50. Not keen on the tinned tomato, but I can forgive it for the low, low price. However, I don't think it would cost them any more to use proper tomatoes instead of the abomination from a tin, so a point deducted for that. Massive kudos to the volunteers who donate their time to running the café and museum. I think it's fantastic, and they do an amazing job. Double thumbs up 👍👍

Loved this video mate. Like yourself, I'm also a very nostalgic person. Breakfast looked really good what was on there and fair play to the staff for being volunteers. I'll go with a 9/10. Thanks for sharing Lee and keep up the great work 🙂👍

My mums side of the family were miners in Falkirk through the 19th and early 20th century, living and working in horrible conditions. My 2x Great Grandad was killed in one of the far too frequent mining accidents. There’s not much trace of the colliery’s round here anymore.

Takes me back Lee did my coal face training at 18 . Can't see young uns doing it now days. It was hard work but a great community.

Love the dog cafe idea and thanks to all the volunteers we need more places like this

As you know Mac, I have been involved in the mining industry for coming up 25 years and still travel the globe support engineering sites. I am a bit like "Red Adair" if you remember that guy from the 80's. I always try and visit these old mines when traveling and when youre next on the A66 to Carlisle there is a great one called Threlkeld Quarry & Mining Museum. By todays standard these seem like a million years away. The mine in Kiruna is the world’s largest underground iron-ore mine in Sweden is worth a vist and you get to go underground. there are tarmacked roads we use and traffic lights with living and working offices a couple of KM underground. Lovely Video and very respectful, xxx Love yah

What a lovely video, Lee, this is one of your very best one's. I've been through Pleasley many many times since the 80s and I never knew those headstocks were still standing or that there was a cafe and museum there. My dad was a miner from the 1930s to the 1970s, so I know a bit of what they went through and how hard their jobs were, so even though my dad didn't work at this pit, and looking at the stuff in the museum, it still had a nostalgic feel as mining was what so many men did when I was growing up. Very few breakfasts fit my ideal or practically perfect one, but this is so damn close I can't really fault it. Everything is on the plate, no poncey ramekins for the beans, tinned tomatoes etc, it all looked just as it should, and with normal white toasted bread and none of that sourdough muck, and at a decent price. Has to be a 10 today.

Excellent vlog. Very respectful to a massively important workforce who sadly now seem to be forgotten.

Hi Lee You should do more of these enjoyed the tour

I am glad to see from the photos that there was some social life for the families of the miners who have always been exploited and maltreated. The photos and artifacts help us to remember them. The egg brings back the memory of when my granddad decided to cook breakfast. The eggs were always thoroughly brown on the bottom and around the edges. Although I have many fond memories of him, that is not one of them.

loved the vid...bring back the mines ⚒⚒breakfast 10/10 🤝

Really great vlog Lee, like you this takes me back to great times in the '70's and '80's, the pits were the heart and soul of Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire. I never worked in them myself although a lot of my mates did, and the canteens were great, you could get a hearty meal for £1 - £1.50, full English, pie chips and peas and even a roast in some of them. I loved the Miners Welfare clubs as well, always packed Friday and Saturday nights and cheap ale. I'd give your brekkie a 10 as well, the museum was nice to see.

Have to say, I did a shift down the pit. They deserved every penny the earned, and said I would never work down the pit. Much to my mums surprise I became a submariner in the RN!

I was at secondary school my dad worked through the strikes he worked at Sutton colliery I was so proud of him he worked so hard and endured such hatred from the others from other counties who came down to picket, as kids we was walked across Stanton Hill by police as the abuse from the striking miners was appalling he chose to work to support his family he passed from lung cancer I am convinced it was due to coal dust it gets really busy there usually the breakfast was s good home cooked one great memories sat with tears thinking of my wonderful dad

Superb vlog. I’m from South Wales I remember the strikes in the 80’s. Tbh people from Nottinghamshire are still referred to as scabs in these parts.

Just to say HELLO and THANK YOU for all your posts, please pass on my kindest regards to your nearest and dearest .

Excellent video, looks like a special place to visit, would like to go there but I live too far away. G-Day to Mick next time you see him.

projects like that need all the support they can get

can u imagine todays snow flake doing that job that was hard work

Breakfast looked overall good and fab the staff are volunteers, but 10/10 was over generous in my opinion. I would have given 8.5. The egg yolk was haribo style, which you normally criticise, but didn't on this vlog, not sure why. Bottom of the egg white looked burnt, beans were dished over the egg white, hash brown was broken in half and looked under cooked. Toast was pre-buttered which you don't prefer and that usually merits a comment and point knocked off. Both ketchup & brown sauce were catering ones not Heinz or HP. Apart from that, I would go and try it lol

Great looking place and although the breakfast looked ok there is no possible way a 10 can be given due to the fried egg, fried to death, Frisby comes to mind...

I remember the miners strikes in Scotland and had family who were miners and steel workers in Ravenscraig.

Lovely all round video that mate. Breakfast looked about par, but the historical stuff looked great Hope they get plenty of visitors. 👍

I must admit Lee, I don't watch as many of your food vlogs as I should 🤪 but this one was great. I thoroughly enjoyed it. The cinematic vibe you get with a phone on superwide is just a testament to your talent... I'm not blowing smoke up your proverbial either... it has encouraged me to be better than the live (lady of the night) that I am... I'm stuck inside with the dreaded CO VID *yes, it got me in the end... I'm starting a Feiyu-Tech Pocket 3 review as we speak... you're welcome anytime to visit us on Freaky Friday or for a morning walk in Tenerife next time you're over... and... as I will be officially retired, I will invite YOU for breakfast 😎

Back to the good old days. My dad used to deliver flour to all the bakeries in the late 60s early 70s and I used to tag along. Smell from fresh baked bread was amazing.

Father in law & brother in law both worked down the pit, our area was covered with pits, till Thatcher came in!🤬🤬🤬

Love the museums Lee. Really enjoyed this. 🥰☀️🥰xxx

My old dad's first job at 14 year's old bk in 1939 ..His mother didn't want him to work down the pit (Prnce of Wale's colliery Pontefract) ..He locked himself in bathroom & escape out of window to go there .. That was bk in the day when horse's still were used poor things ..Very harsh conditions but the money was better than office or factory work bk then .. It's now been turned into a nature reserve ..To be honest i miss a coal fire brought up in the 70's was a welcoming sight especially during the winter time ..Great vlog Lee very interesting & brekkie didn't look too shabby 8/10 🤗

Just watched this video It was very good and interesting Food looked delicious

Great vlog lee if you ever get chance to go to Wakefield to there pit museum it’s brilliant mega museum that you can still walk round it all and even go down the shaft, also a cafe for your breakie. Be great for you to vlog.

Great video if you like nostalgia go to Wakefield national coal mining museum, you can even go down into the pit with a guide very eerie

Breakfast looked spot on . Great video Mac

Magic video loved the history museum also the clocking in cards I started work in 1969 and had to clock in and out memories ❤️

Best video yet Lee, but then I'm from a mining family in County Durham, so I'm biased. Wonderful museum and the breakfast looked top class.

Try the Yorkshire mining museum . You can go underground and think there’s a cafe tho we took sandwich’s . Excellent video 👍

Really enjoyed the video Lee very interesting place and a bit sad aswell when you think back to the miners strick great work lee

Decent breakfast my friend, Britain was great until the Mines closed

I recall driving through Castleford less than 10 years ago and seeing a very young woman walking home in her orange overalls, holding her hard hat and covered in coal dust. I assumed she must have come from Kellingley, sadly now closed and one of the last. Quite a thing to think if you wanted to you could work in such a male dominated environment but then the whole industry was taken away. One of my elderly relatives was a miner in Goldthorpe, he had never left Yorkshire, ever! He had hands like shovels, one of his sons was down the pit, the other in the Police !

Great vlog but regarding the food especially the egg I'll reserve judgement and talk outside. A 6 from me. Well done to the volunteers though on keeping some our history that people can learn from aswell as look back on.❤

Morning hun hope you are well. That breakfast looks fabulous everything on the plate looks fabulous Sausages looked nice so did the bacon.. My score is 10. And the history of that place is amazing well worth visiting. A lot of men lost there lives down the mine xxx thank you for sharing this with us it was lovely to see xxx🙏🙏

10 for me great to see volunteers at work very clean restaurant

Tinned tomatoes, brilliant.

Reminds me my dad's dad and all his old mining gear in the shed😌 he kept his old snap tin for storing screws. 10😉

That's just brilliant, especially the clocking in card, I still have to do this now 😂it's the best bit of my day, the clock is out by a minute or so 😂but hey hoo. They are still going and where you wouldn't believe 😮. Keep up the good work 👏

A bit over cooked that. Great nostalgia still standing, here in the states it would be long gone and paved over.

What a great historic place to visit and eat, and they are volunteers! Brilliant. Bar the egg which looked like its relationship with the pan was too long, it looked good and good value. And LD - stop calling real tomatoes pretentious they have feelings and fried until soft are the best. Overall a real 9.99 food, value & museum.

Always good to support small businesses and I’m always for that. Breakfast looked pretty good although the egg could have been better I thought. I wonder if the baked beans were Heinz or a supermarket brand? Nice to see history on our doorstep always of interest.

I also really enjoy history/memorabilia. This was s fabulous video Lee. Thanks from Cheryl in Liverpool 😊

Great vlog lee strong men our miners were

God if only we could go back to those days much better then 😌 😊

Apparently, they are all volunteers, surprised you didn’t mention it. 😀

We had a Metalbox at Aintree,.about three miles from me. My dad used to be a trucker and he would.regularly take loads to Mansfield from there!!! That jogged a memory!!!!!

Cooked by volunteers and sadly looked like it. Toast on the plate a no no. Fibre glass egg, sausages looked warmed over and whilst I like tinned tomatoes the chopped ones are not really suitable for putting on a plate. I’d give it a 5.

This is so good to see that it still exists

Great video so nostalgic..my dad/grandad and uncles were all pit men he used to take me to pick his wages up every week when I was a child always something I loved to do he worked in parsonage colliery he said it was the hottest pit in the uk and he had to crawl through places to mine them … one of my uncles had the roof fall in on him it took several hours for them to rescue him due to the pit being so deep

Brierley Forest Park visitor centre & cafe. It used to be a lovely place to visit.

Yes, a 10 for sure. But also on this one, a definite 10+ for you, my friend...

Christ, what have they done to that egg!

In my view it was a big mistake to close those mines with millions of tons of coal left. If I remember rightly, the Nottingham shire miners didn't strike because Scargill wouldn't call a ballot. The ex miners have suffered, but Mr Scargill has not. I do still support the miners cause. A Taxi driver was killed in South Wales during the dispute by strikers, which was murder in my view. No one ever remembers Taxi drivers who have been murdered doing their job and their have been many. Speaking as a former Taxi Driver.

If you get chance Lee… Take the family to Beamish Museum. It’s only an hour or so from Leeds up the A1M. It’s a good day out

The breakfast looked great Lee and loved all the nostalgia from days gone by great vlog as always my friend 👉👉

Great lee enjoyed that I had lots of family who worked the pits bilsthorpe blidworth my cousin was union rep at blidworth and bilsthorpe harry Smith Your family may remember him few relatives bless them lost ther lives down bilsthorpe pit

Great vlog Lee the Wakefield mining museum excellent also the breakfast steady 7

Great video Lee. 👍 I can only imagine how dreadful the conditions were working in the mines. The snowflake youth of today wouldn't last 5 minutes.

Great 'Notts-stalgic' video and another place where I go with the dog sometimes. Have you been to Papplewick Pumping Station? Another great place for 'Notts-stalgia!'

Great day out that Mac, the breakfast looked Delish, Great portion size, looked very tasty 👏

Love everything on your plate ❤,

What a fabulous place love nostalgia myself and a full English breakfast..but I do remember the strikes and Arthur Scargill getting arrested..but I thought the word was scum they used not scab 🤔

Hi just had a breakfast at the pit and a look around the old pit brilliant am local didn't know it was there thanks

Hi Lee When you mentioned working at metal box that took me way back I had a mate that used to work metal box in North London so a welder