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This is a photo of the mine refered to in this post.
I remember delivering to every coal mine in England and Wales over the years. I had a smallish lorry one day and found a man and his family broken down. I was going past their house and towed them home. Because I would not accept anything for the favour they told me to always knock their door when I was in the area. He worked at the CWM Colliery and I once had to deliver a very large rubber belt to the Pit-Head Stores. It was late in the day and the storeman said I would have to unload it myself, then he smiled. I undid the chains and reveresd slowly then stood on the brakes. The belt which was wound tightly on a wooden spool started to roll towards the end of the lorry. It was an eight wheeler with a bit of an overhang and when the belt got just past the rear axle , the weight of it tipped the lorry up. I went twenty feet into the air and the belt shot acros the stores yard. then the front of the lorry came down so hard that both mirrors and screen wipers broke off. I was very shook up by the impact but I laughed at what had happened. When I got back to the little office the man could see the lorry was empty and signed the paperwork. I never heard a word about it from that day to this. I went to previously mentioned mans house and they gave me a meal and a cup of tea, he later told me that the stores staff had to cut the belt to required lengths and roll them up as best they could.
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I also made regular deliveries to the pits in or near these S.Wales villages. Ynyshir 1965, Tonypandy 1960, Tonypandy again, 1955 and another view of Ynyshir 1965.
I remember delivering to every coal mine in England and Wales over the years. I had a smallish lorry one day and found a man and his family broken down. I was going past their house and towed them home. Because I would not accept anything for the favour they told me to always knock their door when I was in the area. He worked at the CWM Colliery and I once had to deliver a very large rubber belt to the Pit-Head Stores. It was late in the day and the storeman said I would have to unload it myself, then he smiled. I undid the chains and reveresd slowly then stood on the brakes. The belt which was wound tightly on a wooden spool started to roll towards the end of the lorry. It was an eight wheeler with a bit of an overhang and when the belt got just past the rear axle , the weight of it tipped the lorry up. I went twenty feet into the air and the belt shot acros the stores yard. then the front of the lorry came down so hard that both mirrors and screen wipers broke off. I was very shook up by the impact but I laughed at what had happened. When I got back to the little office the man could see the lorry was empty and signed the paperwork. I never heard a word about it from that day to this. I went to previously mentioned mans house and they gave me a meal and a cup of tea, he later told me that the stores staff had to cut the belt to required lengths and roll them up as best they could.
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I also made regular deliveries to the pits in or near these S.Wales villages. Ynyshir 1965, Tonypandy 1960, Tonypandy again, 1955 and another view of Ynyshir 1965.
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