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All the way in to the 50's I think.
1954 was officially the end of food rationing I think.
Rationing remained in effect until the early 1950s. Meat was the last item to be derationed and rationing ended completely in 1954, nine years after the war ended. The UK was the last country involved in the war to stop rationing food.
 
Rationing remained in effect until the early 1950s. Meat was the last item to be derationed and rationing ended completely in 1954, nine years after the war ended. The UK was the last country involved in the war to stop rationing food.
f***ing Labour goverment stopping the common man from having a Sunday dinner.
f***ing cheers comrade😉😉😉🤣🤣🤣
 
My dad was banging on about being a hero last night - showing us all his medals and recounting tales of foreign life in the army.

They were all slim mind.

And hungry
 
If there was no demand for coal, why did we end up importing it after the pits were closed?
Because it was half the f***ing price of what was coming out of Eppleton and Easington marra.
Demand was falling, but we still needed some., but even so, we couldn't get it out of the ground for anywhere near what we could buy it for from elsewhere.
 
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Left shiney como 1982 apprenticeship at the yards supposedly a job for life, disillusioned at closures sat at 57 semi retired after hawking my arse all over the world doing my bit wondering what the Fukk happened or what was right or wrong, drove past the yard I saved my time at hoping to Fukk this film studio really takes off
Same year i started in the yards, where did you serve your time ?
 
Because it was half the f***ing price of what was coming out of Eppleton and Easington marra.
Demand was falling, but we still needed some., but even so, we couldn't get it out of the ground for anywhere near what we could buy it for from elsewhere.
Aye, let's shut down our entire coal industry because we could get it a bit cheaper from abroad 🤦‍♂️
I mean, relying on foreign energy sources has proved a really successful policy and all destruction of entire communities was worth it to save a few quid.
 
I was born in Consett in 1992, so the steelworks was closed. Both my grandfathers were miners. My dad has worked in factories his whole life and at 58 his hands are knackered. Despite that me and my sister wanted for nowt growing up. I’m very grateful to my parents.

I met a girl from the Midlands when I was 20 and moved down there at 21. The difference in employment opportunities down here is astounding. We’d saved up enough for a deposit on our first house by the time I was 27. Something I doubt would’ve been possible in Consett.

I still miss the north east dearly and my little girl (just turned one) will know all about where her dad comes from as she grows up. One day I’ll be back, probably when I retire as the mrs has fell in love with Northumberland.

Still proud to say I’m from Consett. You should always be proud of your roots.
 
Aye, let's shut down our entire coal industry because we could get it a bit cheaper from abroad 🤦‍♂️
I mean, relying on foreign energy sources has proved a really successful policy and all destruction of entire communities was worth it to save a few quid.
Mate, reliance on coal was running out. The coal industry was eating itself. The time was rapidly approaching where we didn't need coal. How many pits would we need now to supply the need we have?
Industries die marra. It's what happens.

How many TV repairmen do you know?

How many gas streetlight lighters?

How many steam train engineers?

It was always going to happen. It just happened then.
 
Mate, reliance on coal was running out. The coal industry was eating itself. The time was rapidly approaching where we didn't need coal. How many pits would we need now to supply the need we have?
Industries die marra. It's what happens.

How many TV repairmen do you know?

How many gas streetlight lighters?

How many steam train engineers?

It was always going to happen. It just happened then.
Who thought making silly video clips could be a career and make you a multi millionaire
 
Mate, reliance on coal was running out. The coal industry was eating itself. The time was rapidly approaching where we didn't need coal. How many pits would we need now to supply the need we have?
Industries die marra. It's what happens.

How many TV repairmen do you know?

How many gas streetlight lighters?

How many steam train engineers?

It was always going to happen. It just happened then.
I'm not saying we would still have pits now, but at the time we still used a lot of coal and the government decided to get rid of our own supply and buy it from abroad.
Absolute madness and done out of spite with the claim "it's cheaper" to get the gullible idiots behind it.
 
I'm not saying we would still have pits now, but at the time we still used a lot of coal and the government decided to get rid of our own supply and buy it from abroad.
Absolute madness and done out of spite with the claim "it's cheaper" to get the gullible idiots behind it.
Your opinion mate, and as valid as anyones.
I just happen to disagree with it that's all.

Be a boring world if we all had the same opinion marra.
 
If there was no demand for coal, why did we end up importing it after the pits were closed?

The pricing from abroad was much cheaper so unless you sacked half the workforce (same issues) or subsidised it then the pricing was too high hence no demand.

It was plummeting money when it closed. It's the exact same problem with British Steel now and we're just dragging it out for the same outcome when someone says enough is enough.
 
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The pricing from abroad was much cheaper so unless you sacked half the workforce (same issues) or subsidised it then the pricing was too high hence no demand.

It was plummeting money when it closed. It's the exact same problem with British Steel now and we're just dragging it out for the same outcome when someone says enough is enough.
Yet we seemed to find the money to prop up the banks when their greed almost destroyed them. Makes you think.
 
Left shiney como 1982 apprenticeship at the yards supposedly a job for life, disillusioned at closures sat at 57 semi retired after hawking my arse all over the world doing my bit wondering what the Fukk happened or what was right or wrong, drove past the yard I saved my time at hoping to Fukk this film studio really takes off

Are your initials AR.
 
Left School is 1990, ( to be honest stopped going a couple of years before that )

was the 2nd year of GCSE's iirc, our school didn't have a clue, it was a mess, needless to say the school pass rate was insanely low.

Nothing around, so onto a YTS I went, managed to get onto a training scheme at Reyrolles Hebburn, broke my arm and since I had my own gaff and needed the money, had to jump to a retail YTS at comet Jarrow, biggest mistake of my life. Was a con, getting kids to work for next to nothing with the promise of a Job, but since the YTS paid the companies you were dumped and more "free money people" took on.

Rest of my life has been spent trying to make ends meet on the crappy low waged jobs, its shite it seems we are heading back to those days and feel gutted another batch of kids have the Tory's messing it up for them.

Not sure it was the governments fault you stopped going to school 2 years before you left??

That may have been down to you?
 
Was at hebburn for the first year then Pallion started as a plater ended up in the drawing office cos all the lads I was with at college were in the drawing office.
What about you ??
Pretty much same as you, Hebburn for a year then Deptford, was also a plater, we will have been on the bus together 😆
 

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