[keith]

Scaitcliffe pit thats was a place I know a bit about first my late father worked there till he moved to the ncb garage working nights driving one of the two coaches used to take miners to there homes after the late shifts and picking them up for the early shifts secondly my late eldest brother ronnie worked there for quite a long time as an electrician along side albert Illingsworth his mother had a chip shop first in ormerod st then willows lane both albert and my brother worked under mr tom redmayne the pits engineer thirdly I myself was a ncb driver and when things got busy there did the odd load all the coal was off poor quality and put through a crusher at huncoat to be mixed with better coal to make it burn even the coal for the scaitcliffe boiler had to be brought from bankhall burnley The two regular drivers based at scaitcliffe were the late tommy o,brian driving a sixwheeler leyland tipper and the late albert <dodger> green overseeing the whole pit the pit top foreman joe wright who believe me was quite a character