Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

Could it be Mycorrhizae Fung - check this site out @Canny lass :- https://www.gardenmyths.com/fungi-wood-chips/

Can't find 'Rope boy' - just 'Rope mam' = A man employed to maintain and extend, splice or install haulage ropes. Other than HPW - Geoff Glass & Alan Dickson (Barnton Facebook group) two of the web sites I have used for pit terms are :- https://www.healeyhero.co.uk/rescue/glossary/glossary.htm & http://www.dmm.org.uk/books/terms_a.htm Nothing about Rope man or boy in the dmm list. NB. the healeyhero site http://www.healeyhero.co.uk/rescue/glossary/glossary.htm t says :- his site is Glossary of words that are generally specific to the mining industry: Some have a two or three fold meaning, some have gone out of use, some are local to Derbyshire, Leicestershire, South Yorkshire and to Nottinghamshire, and others are general to the British Coalfields. As there wasn't a reference to Rope boy I looked at Haulage (from the Rope man definition) and it has this :- Haulage Boy, (1) aged 13 to 18 usually employed lashing or clipping and un-clipping tubs on an engine driven (moving) haulage rope on main roads or pit bottom area. Haulage boy (2) could also be one say 15 years plus employed getting tubs or jotties of supplies to a face and empties back in panel gates by engine driven haulage rope, or ganging same by a pony. The age of starting work was 13 from 1880s up to 1913, then 14 from 1930s to 1948, 15 up to 1960s, thereafter 16 plus. Haulage boy (3) generally a young boy 13 to 15 assisting an experienced person doing the above jobs (description sometimes varied pit by pit).

@Andy Millne - @threegee any idea why I can't get the sound on this video - it works fine on Facebook platform? Ignore the above just worked it out - Doh. If 'delete' was available to the person that made a duff posting I would have deleted this one

The dog is ready for halloween :-

@HIGH PIT WILMA - @Geoff Glass has joined the group

Passed the above to Geoff - waiting to see what his response is

That's the one HPW - I posted your reply on the Barrington Facebook site and Geoff replied - 'Oh right - yes I remember him Say hello to him for me please'

If I leave this world tomorrow I will be go contented knowing my life had been enhanced by the Rolley-Way man Scuffling alang wi the Worm & fling Gummer = magic HPW

Then & Now

And is this the same team as the one above, with 3 trophies?

Rothbury war memorial and URC Church

Can't see any photos that havn't been posted on the Bedlington groups before but it's good to see them all in one display. There is one mistake - the photo of J. EASTON Bedlington bus, 2 mins 31secs into the video, is not in Bedlington, it's Rothbury. You can see the Rothbury war memorial on the left of the photo.

Rolley - Coal truck. Rolley way - Haulage road. Rolley-Way Man - A man whose business it was to attend to the rolley-way and keep it in order. It was also his duty to see that no time was lost in getting the full waggons to the shaft and the empty ones in-bye again. The above copied from another site that lists 'Pit Terminology' = http://www.healeyhero.co.uk/rescue/glossary/glossary.htm And Alan Dickson replied with :- The team that laid and kept the tracks in order down the pit Alan. And the head rolley-way-man, placed all the men at the various non peace work jobs. And Geoff Glass replied with :- Aye he worked behind the coal cutting machine.