by i10webdesign.uk@gmail.com | Jan 13, 2014 | History & Memories
The Old Baker’s Shop in Smallthorne by Doris Machin (nee Tyler) Dad was a miner. He worked on the coal face at Whitfield Colliery. When I was a small child I used to meet him sometimes from work — he’d pick me up and I can still remember the smell of coal-dust,...
by i10webdesign.uk@gmail.com | Jan 13, 2014 | History & Memories
Memories of work in Smallthorne by Doris Machin (nee Tyler) Does anyone remember the small printing firm on Smallthorne bank — Robinson’s Printing Works? I started to worked there as a linotype operator in 1947, when I was 15 years of age. I was told at the time...
