hi all,could anyone on this thread tell me if they have any old photoes of the long gone colleries,such as bagwoth,swadlincote,nottingham,ilkeston,and shap, i used to work for DEWES from DONHEAD ST MARY near SHAFTESBURY dorset,and regulary visited these mines for coal in the 50/60’s,DEWES used to run two stroke commers,foden and then we had the big J’s also we used to work out of the welsh mines aswell.anyone help■■? 
Go onto flickr and type in the name you want and there are loads on there like these.
BAGWORTH
BOLSOVER
Should have put these on here 1st forgot about it 
All photos belong to Mr Jack Raine former assistant T/Manager at Beatties
Stanfield:
One from the Hanson fleet AEC Mercury (I think this one would suit Chris Webb)
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Thanks John,a great PD picture of a firm I remember. I never drove a Mercury with Park Royal cab although A E Evans had two at Sheffield.
Stanfield:
One from the Hanson fleet AEC Mercury (I think this one would suit Chris Webb
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I had 5177WY, AEC Marshall from the same batch, Fred Chappell Batley. A ■■■■ fine motor, I got it new and spent many hours in it.
Peter Slaters Atkinson (photo StilltimeCollection)
Hi, has anyone on here got any photos of Smith Parkinson &Cole, or Dennison’s, I started work at S P C in 1961 as apprentice mechanic, we had a driver there, sure he was ex Peter Slater’s, he could nock a set of brake linings of in weeks, Peter Slater’s sure had the name of the flyers of the coal wagons in the day.
Les.
I was chatting to an old local driver who used to drive for a haulier around here (still trading) back in the 1970’s and his work for five days a week was running a Guy Big J four wheeler empty from Matlock to South Elmsall pit, load coal at 7 am for Jarrow then tip and reload at another pit on Tyneside for Glow Worm’s foundry near Belper. He had to be there and tipped before 3pm as they closed the gates. On Saturday it would be Bolsover/Oxcroft to Leamington Spa or similar. Quite a week, modern stuff would have a job doing it now.
Just glad that us lads running out of quarries had it nice and steady…
Pete.
The bloke handing the note to the driver of the Hanson’s AEC on the weighbridge at Dam Pit is Ronnie Green,
I have travelled thousands of miles with him in his NCB Commer that was also based at the Dam Pit garages
AEC Mercury belonging to Fred Chappell from Batley who sold out to Hargreaves in 1959 (photo by Les (wakey) Wilson)
Stanfield:
AEC Mercury belonging to Fred Chappell from Batley who sold out to Hargreaves in 1959 (photo by Les (wakey) Wilson)
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It was hitchhiking in Peter Slater coal wagons that got me interested in trucks and eventually lead to me driving for a living. I remember thumbing it over to Ladybower from Glossop in an empty 4x2 Austin, then getting a lift back to Glossop later in the day with a loaded 4x2 or sometimes a 6x2. Jeez it was hot and smelly in the cabs, but I got the smells and feelings into my blood and that was that. We got to know most of the drivers and they would sometimes pick us up outside my mum’s house on Sheffield Road and drop us off at the same place later on. Brakes smoking like mad. They used to stop for teas at Nelly Broom’s café (now well gone) just before the Manor Pub in Glossop.
Stanfield:
AEC Mercury belonging to Fred Chappell from Batley who sold out to Hargreaves in 1959 (photo by Les (wakey) Wilson)
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Where the hell did you find that? I remember it well, I started my driving career with Fred (a good man) in 1960. He gave me a new AEC Marshall (5177 WY) and I spent many happy hours in it. I have a colour photo of it but I’ve no idea how to scan it and post it on here
VERY happy days. 
Hi from Down Under. I loved the old photos of Kendrick’s Fodens, I too, have done many miles sitting on the engine tunnel with my feet under dads ( Doug ) seat to keep warm. That was in 1961 or 62 til 67, when we left for West Australia. The last Foden he drove was the 1st LXB tilt cab off the showroom floor, it had lots of chrome. He loved it, and wouldn’t admit today. I also remember the Atkinson too. Anyway, catch you on the flipper. Andy.
beaut weather today. 25*c ,sunny all day. But, years ago, 66 I think, out with dad , I remember sailing thru a rounderbout, after hitting ice,after overtaking the gritspreader, bending the trackrod…in a Kendrick Foden.
One of the places I worked early 70s going a long time before I started & still going strong today a family run business Picture taken today 8/7/2014
Ex William Hampton Foden,
Stanfield:
Cawoods another coal haulier from the 50s/60s…I think they are now part of the Hargreaves group (anyone know)photo by flatman0010
Cawoods, bought Peter Slaters. Then in the 1970’s Redlands PLC, the Irish builder bought Cawoods.
Lots of opencast was being hit and rather than having to bring in a Coal Factor to sell it they bought Cawoods so they could do it themselves.
In 1989, they bought the British Fuel Company off AAH Group PLC(Amalgamated Anthracite Holdings) and British Coal.
They then rebranded the entire merged company, British Fuels Limited. With a Coal Division, an Oil Division, Stevedores, and Cawoods of Northern Ireland.
The company BFL was then floated off 2 years later in a management buyout. With a guarantee that British Coal could buy us within 2 years or pay a £55 Million in compensation.
We were set become a privatised British Coals, retail arm.
But the power privatisation F***ed all that up when Nation Power and Powergen started using imported coal. (Something we could supply, only they cut us out completely, buying direct from Antwerp docks). Turnover dropped as more went onto import, and we got the push in 1992.
The company did merge with a part of British Coal, the National Fuel Distributors, which by then was known as CPL, in 1995 in bankruptcy sale.
Hargreaves was the Bulk Coal Division of Coalite PLC, with Charringtons as their Oil Division. Both were spun off after Coalite went bump, along with their Builders Merchants business.
Coalite owned most of the Falkland Islands at one point.
madsteve7:
Stanfield:
Cawoods another coal haulier from the 50s/60s…I think they are now part of the Hargreaves group (anyone know)photo by flatman0010
Cawoods, bought Peter Slaters. Then in the 1970’s Redlands PLC, the Irish builder bought Cawoods.
Lots of opencast was being hit and rather than having to bring in a Coal Factor to sell it they bought Cawoods so they could do it themselves.
In 1989, they bought the British Fuel Company off AAH Group PLC(Amalgamated Anthracite Holdings) and British Coal.
They then rebranded the entire merged company, British Fuels Limited. With a Coal Division, an Oil Division, Stevedores, and Cawoods of Northern Ireland.
The company BFL was then floated off 2 years later in a management buyout. With a guarantee that British Coal could buy us within 2 years or pay a £55 Million in compensation.
We were set become a privatised British Coals, retail arm.
But the power privatisation F***ed all that up when Nation Power and Powergen started using imported coal. (Something we could supply, only they cut us out completely, buying direct from Antwerp docks). Turnover dropped as more went onto import, and we got the push in 1992.
The company did merge with a part of British Coal, the National Fuel Distributors, which by then was known as CPL, in 1995 in bankruptcy sale.
Hargreaves was the Bulk Coal Division of Coalite PLC, with Charringtons as their Oil Division. Both were spun off after Coalite went bump, along with their Builders Merchants business.
Coalite owned most of the Falkland Islands at one point.
Steve were Northern Strip Mining part of the group? or am getting that mixed up with something else
cheers Johnnie