The Demise Of The Colliery Comunity.

[Spug]

What happened and who was to blame.

I was born in Easington and spent most my pre pubescent days there playing on the beach banks/pit heaps and scratting around the streets.

During the strike I seen a lot of what was going on at the picket lines as me mother was the only one working and me Day had to take me owa although being a nipped never really knew what was gaining on.

Looking back it was grim times but Easington was a thriving place full of hard grating bloke with family values and a sense of pride in their lot and driving through there now it is a fucking desolate place with none of these lads left they have all Fucked off and who could blame them.

The place should be flattened as no Fucker in there right mind would start any form of industry there so what now.

Where did it all go wrong?

[mad cyril]

Originally Posted by Spug

What happened and who was to blame.

I was born in Easington and spent most my pre pubescent days there playing on the beach banks/pit heaps and scratting around the streets.

During the strike I seen a lot of what was going on at the picket lines as me mother was the only one working and me Day had to take me owa although being a nipped never really knew what was gaining on.

Looking back it was grim times but Easington was a thriving place full of hard grating bloke with family values and a sense of pride in their lot and driving through there now it is a fucking desolate place with none of these lads left they have all Fucked off and who could blame them.

The place should be flattened as no Fucker in there right mind would start any form of industry there so what now.

Where did it all go wrong?

in a nutshell mate, that auld cu*t thatcher shut the pits

[Dangly Ham]

Boldon Colliery is still very much a community.

[townboy]

Coming from a mining village and family, i'm so glad they were gone by the time i was working. I would have hated to work down them.

[Popeye]

I'm from Easington and I spent the majority of my life there before flying the nest.

I wasn't old enough to remember the miners strike but I dare say there are still a lot of old miners and their families still there, they are around every time I'm back to visit.

However a number of the younger generation have moved outside of the area simply because they had to to pursue a career, so over time the old colliery spirit has been diluted and some of the back streets are now not so desirable to put it politely.

Obviously landlords have used this as an opportunity to buy houses on the cheap and move all sorts in there who've no sense of the history of the place and rather than have a walk up the Welfare and read the memorial stone etc choose to make the place look destitute so that people who drive through the place look down on the area because of these simpletons.

[Spug]

Originally Posted by Popeye

I'm from Easington and I spent the majority of my life there before flying the nest.

I wasn't old enough to remember the miners strike but I dare say there are still a lot of old miners and their families still there, they are around every time I'm back to visit.

However a number of the younger generation have moved outside of the area simply because they had to to pursue a career, so over time the old colliery spirit has been diluted and some of the back streets are now not so desirable to put it politely.

Obviously landlords have used this as an opportunity to buy houses on the cheap and move all sorts in there who've no sense of the history of the place and rather than have a walk up the Welfare and read the memorial stone etc choose to make the place look destitute so that people who drive through the place look down on the area because of these simpletons.

woah lad I by no means look down on the place, nothing more would please me if it became a great place to live, me more than most, I have two family members on the disaster memorial and three on the cenataph.

Originally Posted by Dangly Ham

Boldon Colliery is still very much a community.

Point?

Originally Posted by townboy

Coming from a mining village and family, i'm so glad they were gone by the time i was working. I would have hated to work down them.

agreed same here but we all have different goals.

[egibberate]

As a society we've changed a lot since the 80's.
In those days people were more inclined to remain in their communities where they knew everyone and most people grew up in a two parent family.
Nowadays working class people are more likely to move on to something 'better' as soon as they are able. Working married couples have a better financial chance of doing this and thus move off to new 'posher' estates. The result of this is that places like Easington Colliery will just be left to people who don't work (for a variety of reasons) and can't possibly do anything else but stagnate or worse.

[Popeye]

Originally Posted by Spug

woah lad I by no means look down on the place, nothing more would please me if it became a great place to live, me more than most, I have two family members on the disaster memorial and three on the cenataph.

Sorry comment not aimed at you but those who read reports like Easington being the racist capital of the UK and then tar us all with the same brush.

Like you probably, very proud to have been brought up in Easington.

[martyncb]

Originally Posted by mad cyril

in a nutshell mate, that auld cu*t thatcher shut the pits

I'd agree with this.

[Spug]

Originally Posted by Popeye

Sorry comment not aimed at you but those who read reports like Easington being the racist capital of the UK and then tar us all with the same brush.

Like you probably, very proud to have been brought up in Easington.

Fair enough mate, fair comments also, shame ain't it.

Originally Posted by egibberate

As a society we've changed a lot since the 80's.
In those days people were more inclined to remain in their communities where they knew everyone and most people grew up in a two parent family.
Nowadays working class people are more likely to move on to something 'better' as soon as they are able. Working married couples have a better financial chance of doing this and thus move off to new 'posher' estates. The result of this is that places like Easington Colliery will just be left to people who don't work (for a variety of reasons) and can't possibly do anything else but stagnate or worse.

Makes a lot of sense, have to admit if I lived there I would want out.