A piece of history.I AM writing in the hope that some local miners may be good enough to help me. I was a miner in the Yorkshire pits for 33 years but have now retired. For the past several years, by way of a hobby, I have been an avid collector of colliery checks, tallies TALLIES, evidence. The parts of a piece of wood out in two, which persons use to denote the quantity of goods supplied by one to the other. Poth. Obl. pt. 4, c. 1, art. 2, Sec. 7. or tokens. These were brass discs and were embossed em·boss tr.v. em·bossed, em·boss·ing, em·boss·es 1. To mold or carve in relief: emboss a design on a coin. 2. with the individual colliery name and stamped with the miner's personal number. They were used as a safety measure to record an accurate account of men underground at any one time. Unfortunately I have very few from the West Yorkshire West Yorkshire, former metropolitan county, N central England. Created in the 1974 local government reorganization, the county largely embraced the Leeds conurbation and comprised five metropolitan districts: Calderdale, Bradford, Leeds, Wakefield, and Kirklees. pits. I would love to hear from anyone who worked at these old mine and I am particularly seeking to obtain checks from Caphouse, Lepton lepton (lĕp`tŏn') [Gr.,=light (i.e., lightweight)], class of elementary particles that includes the electron and its antiparticle, the muon and its antiparticle, the tau and its antiparticle, and the neutrino and antineutrino associated with Edge and Shuttle Eye collieries, although I know there will be others I'm sure I don't yet know of. Are there any fellow ex-miners or, indeed, anyone out there who could please help me obtain any checks or tokens from the now long-closed collieries of your area? If so, please contact me on the address below. BILL BENNETT
William Richards Bennett, PC, OBC, (born August 18, 1932 in Kelowna, British Columbia) was Premier of the Canadian province of British Columbia 1975–1986. 5 Edinburgh Avenue, Bolton-OnDearne, Rotherham, CAPTION(S): * PIT TOKENS: Caphouse Colliery and (inset) an example of one of the tokens used by the miners |
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