Fence Houses

This photo is of Lambton D Pit in the back ground you can see the Coke works next to the pit head in the foreground this was the canteen and miners baths. I can remember shining my shoes on a machine which was just in the door way of the canteen on my way back [...]

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Again a big thank you to Geoff Robinson for these photo’s now he is retired he is rumaging in his loft looking for old photos I think these two photo’s are of Sixth Pit but I could be wrong. To jog peoples memory this was opposite the Woodstone Village community Centre. J & B coach [...]

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I took this photograph in 1983 whilst learning about photography. I am the brother of Norman Sweeting whose article you have on your site. It`s strange but I didn`t have anything to do with work there, I went into the RAF. Yours William Sweeting

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