the Trimdon Grange disaster

Salty · **Posted:** Mon Mar 15, 2010 3:21 pm

anyone got any experiences/stories of this?
its for some research i'm doing

vengod · **Joined:** Sat Jun 27, 2009 10:58 pm **Posts:** 388

If you want i could get some pictures of the Pit wheel that stands in the grange?

vengod · **Joined:** Sat Jun 27, 2009 10:58 pm **Posts:** 388

Might also be worth looking/asking on www.trimdontimes.com

Salty · **Posted:** Mon Mar 15, 2010 3:28 pm

thanks mr.V!

paulus the woodgnome and a side salad · **Posted:** Mon Mar 15, 2010 10:01 pm

I always wondered how Trimdon came to be made up of 4 seperate villages - Station, Village, Colliery and Grange?, and not just Trimdon as a whole.

Pierrepoint · **Joined:** Sat Jan 17, 2009 3:04 am **Posts:** 1723

Is this a thinly veiled disguise to get the good doctor to post again... I miss Trimdon..

TalbotAvenger · **Posted:** Tue Mar 16, 2010 12:00 pm

chip fireball wrote:

he does post quite regularly.

just uses a different name.

try posting something racist or slate leicester university and he will reply.

"leicester uni is shyte, and is over run by darkies " usually works.

Or burning fossil fuel is the way forward

PS

I think it is anyway, can't beat a good bommy covered in petrol

Salty · **Posted:** Tue Mar 16, 2010 5:01 pm

Pierrepoint wrote:

Is this a thinly veiled disguise to get the good doctor to post again... I miss Trimdon..

it wasn't, no!

effionthedragon · **Joined:** Sun Jan 17, 2010 8:49 pm **Posts:** 309

Salty wrote:

anyone got any experiences/stories of this?
its for some research i'm doing

Salty,

Tommy Armstrong, Tanfield Lad as I recall, wrote the original . Tommy is buried in Tanfield Village Cemetrey I think.

You might know he was known as the Pitman Poet & wrote a few songs/poems such as this one.

Durham Mining Museum has got loads of stuff about colliery disasters including this one.

Hope this helps.

the Trimdon Grange disaster

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