(11 Dec 2014, 5:19 pm)Tom wrote I thought he might have been a serviceman or something, that's why I mentioned it
Great job though!
Thanks a lot.
He went down the pits at Pelton a Fell when he was 14 (shocking to think that as I'm 14 now, and could never do that!) and moved down to Stoke when my mam was born in 1963. When the pits ran dry down there, he came back up to Kibblesworth (using a bus to get from there to Pelton every day) in 1966. Was there nearly there twenty years until it closed in 1984 or 1985. He then became a security guard over at Seaham and retired in 1995 when my grandma my diagnosed with bowel cancer.
I was born years later and she died four days after I was born on October 3 2000. He died March 31 2014.
Bit of a life story!
