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Ackton hall pit and local mining

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claytonroyston
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« on: September 28, 2008, 09:26:28 am »

it was very interesting to read all about the local collierys,but nobody as refered to snydale colliery.
i started at snydale colliery in1949 straight from school.and worked there for 10 years before moving to sharlston colliery. snydale pit was always called a family pit and every body got on well with one another.i class myself as being lucky as one partcular miner took me under his wing and taught me a lot in my early days as a young miner his name was Joe Harper and he finished up being our M.P. i lived on wakefield road opposite featherstone baths (what baths) and i used to go to the pit on my bike (i was pony driving at the time) at this time of the year i used to stop of at the mill pond nip over the fence fill a bag of apples and take them down the pit for the pit ponies they would follow you all shift till they had all been eaten .the memories i have on those 10years could fill a book.
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