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    One of my great uncles worked in the Liverpool Shipyards before working in the coal mines installing pipes.



    this would be late 1950's. He lived in Everton at the time. Would anyone know where the closets pits would have been to Liverpool? and what types of pipes could he have been installing in the pits?

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    what types of pipes could he have been installing in the pits?
    used to pump water out of the mine.
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    The closest pits I can think of are at Cronton and Whiston.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Spike View Post
    One of my great uncles worked in the Liverpool Shipyards before working in the coal mines installing pipes.

    this would be late 1950's. He lived in Everton at the time. Would anyone know where the closets pits would have been to Liverpool? and what types of pipes could he have been installing in the pits?

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    Cronton Colliery just outside Huyton where the M62 and 57 meet. Everton FC were considering buildings a stadium on the site as rail lines were there - now removed, but rail bridge to the site is still there, over the M62. This is outside Liverpool and most of the people working there were Lancashire people, not Liverpool people. It was difficult to get to by public transport.

    There was a few pits in St. Helens, Clock Face Colliery was one - again currently Merseyside but Lancashire really in culture and outlook.
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    Thanks for the replies

    I really have no idea about this subject, so its all a help.
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    Wasn't it called "Bold Colliery" just outside Widnes?

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    I worked at Cronton as a tally boy in the late 1940s. My job was to tie a tally to the tubs of coal as they came off the coalface. Each tally had a different letter on them, each letter depicting which coaleface the tub had come from. The tallys would be taken off the tubs at the pit head, and each diferent lettered tally hung on a seperate hook. At the end of each shift the tallys would be sorted and counted and the bonuses paid to the miners woking on the appropreate coalfaces. Some of the other pits in the area where Sutton Manor, Clockface,and Hough Green where all the miners who worked in the area did there initial training, and one or two more I cant remember offhand. Most of the miners who worked down thies pits where from the Lancashire area, and quite a few of us, like myself, where from the Huyton area. I used to travell to Prescot on the No10 tram, then from Prescot on a trolly bus to Draggon Lane in Whiston, from where a special shift bus would pick us up on the corner of Draggon Lane to the collery.
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    Hi Gerry

    Thanks for posting your very interesting story, I enjoyed reading that
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