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Hi everyone, I've recently been doing some voluntary work at Woodhorn Colliery Museum, as an ex miner I thought it would be good to get involved and help out. Well as thing's went invariably the talk came round to mining and my experiences underground, about the use of canaries, ponies and what the pit lamp (Glennie) was used for down the mine. Some of my experiences were funny some were sad and some downright bluddy dangerous! I don't care what anybody else says working down the pit was damn hard work and damn dangerous! The point is they were impressed with my knowledge and experiences down t' pit, they have asked me to do some audio tapes for educational purposes. Tapes about, like what canaries were actually used for, they knew about their use for detecting gas but not actually how it worked! Being a mining community they want to preserve stories and experiences so that they are not taken to the grave and lost forever. They want to remind younger generations of what it was actually like in the mines. So people are you an ex miner were your parents or grandparents involved in the mines? More importantly do you remember any of the stories they used to tell you, or do you have your own to tell about anything and everything about the mines and their community. Funny or sad. Factual and slightly enhanced versions. Thanks people.

The explanation is both simple and embarrassing: we ran out of HD space late last night! This has accelerated our plans to move BCOUK to another, currently grossly underused, machine with a much bigger Hard Drive. This should improve the response times for locals too. A few weeks maybe; meanwhile we will watch the disk space issue carefully.

Good to hear it wasn't anything too serious! keep up the good work, it's certainly appreciated.