Yes indeed, time seems to pass so quickly as you get older, yet thinking back to my school days and watching the clock on the wall and thinking how slow the time was passing and wishing it was home time.
I loved the 70's, every minute of it.
There seemed so much to do that there weren't enough hours in the day to do 'em all.
Oh to be young and active again!
That's beautifully nez. I haven't seen it put so well anywhere as that nez.
Oh for the summers of our youth.
So long ago the garden; walls, fences and streets of our play.
Explorers all.
Time is truly eternal when no immediate need is known.
And the universe and all of no-time at all is in each drop of a child's acceptance.
Yes indeed, time seems to pass so quickly as you get older, yet thinking back to my school days and watching the clock on the wall and thinking how slow the time was passing and wishing it was home time.
I loved the 70's, every minute of it.
There seemed so much to do that there weren't enough hours in the day to do 'em all.
Oh to be young and active again!
That's beautifully nez. I haven't seen it put so well anywhere as that nez.
Oh for the summers of our youth.
So long ago the garden; walls, fences and streets of our play.
Explorers all.
Time is truly eternal when no immediate need is known.
And the universe and all of no-time at all is in each drop of a child's acceptance.
Interesting Sickly, born and bred in Sunnyside (and still here)...worked at Silverwood until it closed in '94, as did grandfather,father,brothers!
When did you start at silver wood MMM?
I'm interested because seeing as we're the same age and my Grandad (who lived as did my uncle in the concrete canyon) wanted to 'sign me up' before I left school but at the time I just felt it wasn't for me. In some ways I regret I didn't. Despite what happend to the industry did you benefit from your career and training their?
Born and Bred in Thrybergh, had a great Childhood roaming the countryside around Thrybergh, Siverwood, Ravenfield Dalton and Kilnhurst. One of my earliest memories is walking for miles with my Grandad on a regular basis, coming back with Blackberries for my Grandma to bake a pie or two.
I played plenty of footy and Cricket on the school playing fields and even had a few Sets of Tennis too!
Life growing up in the 70's was enjoyable and we made our own entertainment, I feel privileged to have had my Childhood then. Happy Days.
Kevin, I think that anyone who grew up in the 70's, or more to the point, was alive in the 70's can relate to that, times were of course tough, but everything seemed less complicated back then compared to now.
-- Edited by cheeks on Wednesday 25th of February 2015 02:50:37 PM
Interesting Sickly, born and bred in Sunnyside (and still here)...worked at Silverwood until it closed in '94, as did grandfather,father,brothers!
When did you start at silver wood MMM?
I'm interested because seeing as we're the same age and my Grandad (who lived as did my uncle in the concrete canyon) wanted to 'sign me up' before I left school but at the time I just felt it wasn't for me. In some ways I regret I didn't. Despite what happend to the industry did you benefit from your career and training their?
Well Ian, i had quite a baptism!!, ill tell you my story, having a father and 3 brothers working at Silverwood, i assumed i would follow in their footsteps into the industry, as you did back then. I left school in '82 and heard nothing from the NCB, so went on a YTS course at the steelos, where i got a permanent job at the Aldwarke primary mill, shortly after, i got the letter from the pit, so, quandary, do i stay at the steelos? well, because of the family connections i started on the underground training in '83, and was a week short of completing when the strike happened!!! After the strike i settled down to the work, and ive got to say that working underground gave me many things that benefitted me and still do, the work ethic and work attitude has kept me in work since, ive never signed on the dole, and that goes for the vast majority of blokes i worked with also.
The value put into friendships underground by all concerned are second to none, the camaraderie and humour also, the lessons learnt underground, bearing in mind i was an 'ordinary' miner, i am now a maintenance engineer with a HNC qualification in electrical engineering!
Interesting Sickly, born and bred in Sunnyside (and still here)...worked at Silverwood until it closed in '94, as did grandfather,father,brothers!
When did you start at silver wood MMM?
I'm interested because seeing as we're the same age and my Grandad (who lived as did my uncle in the concrete canyon) wanted to 'sign me up' before I left school but at the time I just felt it wasn't for me. In some ways I regret I didn't. Despite what happend to the industry did you benefit from your career and training their?
Well Ian, i had quite a baptism!!, ill tell you my story, having a father and 3 brothers working at Silverwood, i assumed i would follow in their footsteps into the industry, as you did back then. I left school in '82 and heard nothing from the NCB, so went on a YTS course at the steelos, where i got a permanent job at the Aldwarke primary mill, shortly after, i got the letter from the pit, so, quandary, do i stay at the steelos? well, because of the family connections i started on the underground training in '83, and was a week short of completing when the strike happened!!! After the strike i settled down to the work, and ive got to say that working underground gave me many things that benefitted me and still do, the work ethic and work attitude has kept me in work since, ive never signed on the dole, and that goes for the vast majority of blokes i worked with also.
The value put into friendships underground by all concerned are second to none, the camaraderie and humour also, the lessons learnt underground, bearing in mind i was an 'ordinary' miner, i am now a maintenance engineer with a HNC qualification in electrical engineering!
Interesting.
It must have been quite a blow when the strike called so early in to your choice/career.
Thankfully you still got some years in and came away with a skill that was sale-able for always. Thats the bit I sort of regret. I ended up doing not very much until the late 80s-90s and felt cut adrift due to the lack of opportunities back then. I looked on with regret others who had learned a skill and a trade but there wasn't anything else happening for the majority back then.
I think the roots and the togetherness you mention was also another thing that I was forced away from and regret. I left Rotherham for the first time in 84 to look for work.
I remember going down south in the mid 80s looking for work and I couldnt believe my eyes. I worked in Brighton, Southampton, and surrounding areas because work was everywhere, but it wasnt skilled and also being young and away from family made it difficult to stick. Endless commutes and bedsits later I finally returned to Rotherham once the economy up North had started to change.
Thankfully, I managed to get back into education because real jobs were still in short supply but there were some roots back in to education that started to open up and after many years I eventually was qualified at something. It had taken 13 years since missing out combined with the effects of Thatcherism to get a foot on the ladder.
I think many lives must have been destroyed by this lack of opportunity back then. Real lives that didnt recover so well and get a second chance.
Still, I guess it was always like this to some extent. My Grandfather for example had to leave the pits in South Wales due to closures and conditions and that was back in the 50s.
-- Edited by ian on Monday 2nd of March 2015 12:13:55 PM
