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Sneyd Old-timers

Series

Series Name
Mining Review 11th Year

Issue

Issue No.
7
Date Released
Mar 1958
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1CARDIFF COLLEGE
  2. 2MINING HONOURS
  3. 3SLICER
  4. 4Sneyd Old-timers

Story

Story No. within this Issue
4 / 4
Summary
NCB Commentary - Back at Sneyd Colliery, the Welfare Hall is the scene of a ceremony honouring other miners who have not been forgotten.
50 years in the pits is a long working life by any standard.
Gathered together, with their friends and families, are 40 Sneyd miners with more than 50 years service each.
Arthur Mountford, 65 now, did 52 years underground.
Tom Sharratt and Jacob Grocott did 104 years service between them.
Grandpa of them all, 78 year old John Taylor kept working on the surface until he was 74.
William Bennett clocked up the half century.
Tom Goodwin is another 50 year man, all spent underground.
Bert Reeves has 57 years of underground work behind him.
If you reckon it all up, the men in Sneyd Welfare Hall this evening can show a combined total of over two thousand years service.
Manager Boote was in charge of the presentations.
One by one the recipients file up to collect Certificate and award.
The money was put up by the Colliery Benevolent and Welfare Committees.
In this way, men still working at Sneyd showed their respect and affection for their old colleagues.
The old timers of Sneyd Colliery are still very much alive.
Researcher Comments
Commentary recorded 3rd February 1958.
Written sources
British Film Institute Databases
The National Archives COAL 32   /12 Scripts for Mining Review

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