Colliery checks; Your say
July 29th, 2010Colliery checks; Your say
Comments | Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England), July 17, 2010
I WAS a miner in the Yorkshire pits for 33 years and have now retired. For the past several years by way of a hobby I have been an avid collector of colliery checks, tallies or tokens.
These were brass discs and were embossed with the individual colliery name and stamped with the miner’s number. They were used as a safety measure to record an accurate account of men underground at any one time.
Unfortunately, though, I have very few from the old North-east pits.
Though they are long gone, these tokens still turn up in the bottom of a drawer or sewing box and I wonder if any fellow ex-miners or indeed any of your readers who could please help me obtain any checks/tokens from the now long closed North-east collieries? and, while we are,Any help would be most appreciated. Thank you.
BILL BENNETT, 5 Edinburgh Avenue, Bolton-on-Dearne, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S63 8DS
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