A Unique History From My Work Diaries

Surveying Jobs

North Nottinghamshire Area from April 1967

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Jul 1972

David Brooks ex HMP given chance as a linesman, start.

Mon 3 … Office … Continued with 6 inch flat sheet construction. Ron Hays re workings to date traced.

Tues 4 … Office … Continued inking in 6 inch plans and construction. Confirmation from J Harvey re property at Wynndale Drive by phone … o.k. £6,000 loan @ 4%. However it fell through, the house had been bought by another.

Wed 5 … Office … Electrical plans … Meeting … East drivages … TJR Sales.

Thurs 6 … Office … Discuss 25s C Conveyor line. Finished Electrical plans. Workings to date. Sorting out Stone Dust Zones new style plan with Alan Blyton, Ventilation Officer. Fireproofing roadways, discuss Sam Coles, Safety Engineer.

Fri 7 … Office … Finished Lip Support sketch. Computer programs (2). 20s Installation of Electricity draft coloured.

Sat 8 … 19664 tons

Mon 10 … Office … Making out new Dust Zones negative. D Rodden’s Wall plan to date. Sketch of 622s paddy for HMI Hopkinson. Info re 116s AW for JA Daniels D/m re crush etc.

Tues 11 … U/g … (43) Check theodolite survey in Pit bottom and South Paddy … 4 men (RB*, SNW, CM and Constantine a Greek student). Plan of Waffler supports for 20s for HMI. Sorting out 57s levels.

Wed 12 … Office … Check calculated 57s levels again. To see Solicitor 12 noon. School visit.

Thurs 13 … Office … Fitted several Silverline steel refill tapes in cases … Surface … Dirt tip to measure soil spread area done during the holidays. Calculated area of same for D Rodden, Manager. Plan for runaway wagons. DO4.

Fri 14 … Surface … Tacheometric survey of amendments and grades on Old Dirt tip … 4 men (RB*, ANM and 2 Greek students Tennessee and Constantine) … Office … Calculated and plotted same. Info to D Oates, a student.

Sat 15 … 20646 tons

Mon 17 … Office … Continued with 6 inch flat sheets, gridding etc. Info to student D Oates.

Tues 18 … Office … Continued with 6 inch flat sheets. Finished inking in and contours. Made new 6 inches to a mile master negative.

Wed 19 … U/g … (44) Check catenary measuring in 58s LG … 6 men (RB*, SNW, ANM, HAR plus 2 Greek students) … Office ... Plan of 20s and 21s for Jack DeLacey NUM (from Strategic Plan).

Thurs 20 … Office … Finished 6 inch negative. Sorting out sections along various roadways. Copied up all outstanding Theodolite and catenary notes.

Fri 21 … Office … Made 6 inch contours negative on Ozaloft. Sorting out books, papers etc from Jim Hooley, Deputy Mechanical Engineer.                                                               

Sat 22 … 19396 tons

Mon 24 … Office … Contouring in metres on plans.

Tues 25 … Office … Continued with same. Shotfiring patterns and 20s Introduction of Electricity with HMI R Bowers and JA Daniels. Prints off Shotfiring pattern for V Brown U/m. Notice. Plan for Mace Market.

Wed 26 … U/g … Dial survey and measurements 116s panel … 7 men (RB*, SNW, DS, ANM, HAR, SMG and 1 Greek student)

Thurs 27 … Office … Calculated surveys both dial and theodolite. Diagrams of Lip supports for Jimmy Pickering, Safety Officer.

Fri 28 … Office … Sorting through old correspondence etc.                                    

Sat 29 … 18147 tons

Mon 31 July and Tues Aug 1 … Annual Leave

Aug 1972

Wed 2 … U/g … (45) Theodolite angling from old 100s Centre G across 110s and up 100s RH to complete all South side polygons … 5 men (RB*, SNW, ANM, DS, HAR) … Office … Calculations for same.

Thurs 3 … Office … Meeting TJR Sales 5pm … re HMI John Jones measuring prop free front at 116s face as 6’ 10” instead of maximum 6’ 6” … to find out why … ranting on about mechanisation etc whilst I was idly gazing out of the window when I suddenly realised he was talking to me. ‘I’m not an engineer’ I said. He glared and said ‘You’ve got a ******* tape haven’t you?’ He then threatened me with the sack if I hadn’t got the solution on a plan by 8am next day …. The meeting broke up and I asked Wilf Pearson for a drawing of the machine. He replied ‘He’s given you the job not me,’ and walked off. I too chose a few choice expletives and proceeded to argue that I needed one of his men to accompany me to the job.

Fortunately it was a nice chap Eric Jones Shift Charge Engineer who turned up after a further altercation with Wilf Pearson, Mechanical Engineer re not getting me a plan of the Ranging drum shearer to use as a base! I had no idea what was needed or what to look for or what measurements to take … I would just have to weigh the situation up when I got there.

Thurs 3 … U/g … to 116s face at 7pm … Measurements to Shearer machine, face, panzer, chocks etc … no solution after cutting several yards … still 6’ 10”. Eric then checked the machine underneath after a while and found that a fitter had put the machine shoes on back to front making the machine crab whilst cutting, thus giving the extra 4” … reported same … out of pit at midnight. (90 u/g)

Fri 4 … Next morning at 6.30am the Survey Office was full of people when I arrived at work, all supping our tea I might add. I began plotting results at 7am but only after turfing out J Sheldon Area Mechanisation Engineer who furnished me with a drawing of the machine, Walter Hulley from Drawing Office, Wilf Pearson and Deputy Jim Hooley, JA Daniels Deputy Manager, VW Brown Undermanager, Jim Kerr spare Production Manager, so that I could plot the job. Jim Kerr said that he would protect me from the bully Sales …. Never saw him again …

Fri 4 … TJR Sales promptly arrived 8am, tapped on the door and said ‘Good morning Bob’ then apologised for the outburst. I explained I knew what was wrong but it was difficult to draw. With that he agreed and said he was off to Bevercotes and would return just after noon and we would have lunch brought from the Canteen in the Deputy Manager’s Office, when he was as different again, a bit like Jeckyl and Hyde and couldn’t have been more pleasant to me as we chatted about various things, then after coffee he wrote down my description as I dictated what I had found and measured and I signed it and he countersigned the report that was to go to Mr HM Spanton Area Director. He thanked me for my efforts and well produced explanation and off he went back to Area HQ. We passed the Deputy Manager in the corridor who had been warned not to enter his new office whilst we were in Conference. He slid back in and picked up the phone … as usual!

Sat 5 … 18499 tons

Mon 7 … Office … Sorting out Shotfiring patterns and referencing them. Made pattern for Stable hole firing. 100 copies for Deputies. Offset plan of 58s LG. Amending 57s levels on plan. Stippling plans. Progress.

Tues 8 … U/g … (46) Theodolite angling in 10s LG and line adjusted … 6 men (RB*, SNW, ANM, HAR, DS plus 1 Greek student) … Routine discussion.

Wed 9 … Office … Plans put on John Daniel’s new office walls at far end of corridor. It was the small Conference Room previously. Coloured Action Program. Discuss J Lyons, P Noone. Phoned Ron Hays. Phoned W Thouless and phoned Clarksons re instrument. Phoned Teversal re tape.

Thurs 10 … U/g … (47) Theodolite angling checks to old bases on South side … 4 men (RB*, ANM, HAR, DS) … Office … Calculations. Phoned Clarksons re theodolite.

Fri 11 … Office … Forms filled in the Stores re instruments etc. Phoned AE Betts, various. Phoned W Thouless again. Calculations etc. Surface … Measured up a crank pan. Office … Drew it up for 10s LG. Discuss JA Daniels 10s and 58s.                                                  

Sat 12 … 18247 tons
Jack Allen (JA) started as linesman.

Mon 14 … Office … Calculated and plotted 10s survey. Progress plotted on plans. Mr Dorman from Clarksons came to collect a theodolite for re-adjustment.

Tues 15 … Office … Calculated bearings. 2 notices for Canteen re Substitute shift. Discuss supports Ken Greaves and Vic Brown. Jim Hooley re 10s change over. D Rodden’s Wall plan to date.

Wed 16 … Office … Sketch on ‘Roneo’ of 10s crank pan change over. Copies of same distributed. Workings from Thoresby to date. Sketch of Boundary of the mine for Standard Mine Plans. 10s LG end Support Rules and copies.

Thurs 17 … Office … Calculation of Polygons etc. Discuss Supports for amendment to plans. Discuss Cyril Arnold, Area Salvage Officer (ex Undermanager at Ollerton). 2s plotted to date for last Quarter.

Annual Leave Fri Aug 18 – Sat 26      Yorkshire Dales

18006 tons

Mon 28 … Bank Holiday, Tues 30 and Wed 31 ... Colliery Rest Days
Annual Leave Fri Sep 1

Sep 1972

Sat 2 … 16600 tons
New desk for me delivered for my personal office - 6529 tons
Vic W Brown Undermanager promoted to Deputy Manager, Babbington and later Pye Hill, and would be promoted again to Manager at New Hucknall. John Higginbotham new Undermanager, transferred from Thoresby.
Dougie Stockham WPIS Supervisory Linesman, David Evans, head Linesman. SM Gill (Jim) (SMG), Bob Shepherd (RS), Clive Morris Sep 1972

Mon 4 … Office … Progress on Working plans. Discuss 2s salvage with D Rodden and JA Daniels. Inking in levels on 10s and 58s. New table lowered.

Tues 5 … Office … Discuss D Rodden and JA Daniels swilley on 58s LG (for sump hole) from 57s final levels working out. Ron Hays, Group Surveyor re number of days the shaft pump was used. Also final contours on Dirt tip plan. 10s check line report.

Wed 6 … Office … Building Dexion shelving with SNW. Sorting out books in new office. Calculations with HAR re metric conversion and MSL (mean sea level) and LSF (Local scale factor).

Thurs 7 … Office … Made a metric conversion chart and prints. D Rodden’s Wall plan to date. Sorting out surveys and calculations.

Fri 8 … Office … Made a negative for Drapers Paddy repair work. Progress plan. 3 prints for HMI Geoff Weston. Inking in sections on plans. Discuss John Raine geology. Discuss D Rodden re Stuart Whittle’s grade. Would be upgraded. 

Sat 9 … 18372 tons

Mon 11 … Office … Calculated and plotted 116s survey and levels and inked in and contours calculated.

Tues 12 … Office … Contours plotted on Dirt tip plans. Discuss AE Betts re Dirt tip plans. He brought 10 plan files. Interview George Pooley. Info re 44s face for D Rodden and TJR Sales.

Wed 13 … Office … New Airborne Dust negative. Surface … Instruction and test on use of new Self-Rescuers and also test on gas caps in Surface Galleries.

Thurs 14 … Office … Amendments to 10s Support Rules, gone on to Half head system. Discuss AE Betts. He brought Maureen to do some printing.

Fri 15 … Office … Discuss HMI Geoff Weston and D Rodden re supports at gate ends. Amendments to all Gate end Support Rules. Required … Supplementary plans showing various stages. Calculated volume in Lagoon No8. Discuss Sam Cole.

Sat 16 … 18701 tons

Sacked David Brooks (DB) … non-attendance and idleness and set on George Pooley (GP) ?

Mon 18 … Office … Continued discussion with Sam Cole, Safety Engineer re supports. Tracing Dirt tip information onto new ‘black copies’ from Area HQ. Sorted out Lagoon No8 info. Tracing of shotfiring pattern for half heading system. Discuss Arthur Morley Area Surveyor and Frank Lee Area Planner re slurry pipes.

Tues 19 … Office … Finishing off Dirt tip negatives. Discuss JA Daniels. Discuss John Higginbotham U/m re 58s check line. Sketch of arch footings. Amendments to Haulage notices.

Wed 20 … Office … Finished off Dirt tip plans … Surface … Picking up slurry pipe with ? Knight, Mech department. Incident plan foe C Bland found dead at 24s B Conveyor.

Thurs 21 … Office … Ted Hinde Deputy Area Surveyor came to peruse Dirt tip plans, amendments and sent to Area HQ. Distances for Sam Cole re R & FF plans.

Fri 22 … Office … Info to Sam Cole. Notice re Pilfering from First Aid containers u/g. Discuss JA D re 25s B conveyor position. Plotted 1/5000 and 6 inch plans to date. D Rodden’s Wall plan.

Sat 23 … Office … Copy of draft Code for EG Frost College Lecturer.
19540 tons

Mon 25 … Office … Progress to date on 1/2500, 1/5000 and 6 inch to Quarter end. Electrical plan workings to date, waiting for info. Sorting out 10s surveys.

Tues 26 …U/g … (48) Theodolite angling from 42s AW Junction along old 20s LH AW to bottom of Drapers Paddy … 4 men (RB*, SNW, DS, Jack Allen JA) … Office … Discuss KF Greaves and JA Daniels D/m accidents and discuss J Higginbotham U/m re 25s.

Wed 27 … U/g … Check dial survey of 10s district and line bearing adjustment in 10s LG … 4 men (RB*, SNW, DS, JA)

Thurs 28 … Office … Statistics etc. Discuss Brian Barlow and Jack Storr by phone, accidents. Discuss KF Greaves Asst U/m re 20s and 62s development.

Fri 29 … Office … Sorting out plans. Drawing coal sections of 44s and 20s for JA Daniels. Discuss re salvage.

Sat 30 … 20536 tons

Oct 1972    Harold Hand (HH) transferred to linesman by J Higginbotham from U/m’s office.

Mon 2 … Office … Electrical plans to date. Sections in block form for 58s. Ron Hays discuss and info and 8 more plan folders brought. Dirt tip negatives to Area HQ. Info re accidents and notices etc.

Tues 3 … Office … Info to D Rodden re Dirt tip re disputed area near the Blue Tit pub at Boughton. Plotting plans to date at Quarter end and inking in. Calculated and plotted 116s survey.

Wed 4 … Office … Finished inking in plans. 44s sections to date and prints. Also for 58s and 20s. Discuss Alan Elliott, Planner.

Thurs 5 … Office … 1/25000 neg made with dates. Prints coloured, 1 for JA D. Info re supports plans to Ron Hays. Discuss with Linesmen re measure up dints, backrips etc. Discuss KF G re SE.

Fri 6 … Office … Dating the Working plans. Print of surface for JAD Meeting at Area HQ 2.30 – 6.15 pm … Keith Shaw DCME and all Unit Surveyors …

1. 1/2500 plan & schedule
2. Geological information
3. Haulage and Conveyors info to Engineering branch
4. All drawings of junctions etc
5. Co-ordination of actual performance against planned
6. Instruction, borehole sites.

Sat 7 … 20471 tons
Mon 9 … Office … Info re salvage etc. Inked in levels. Party from Peterborough in Conference room discuss. Discuss Harold Hand re his new Linesman’s duties. No need to go on the coal face doing check lines or measuring sections etc, to stick with gates and still measure up backrips, dints etc as well as lines and development.

Tues 10 … Surface … with Ron Hays Group Surveyor … 2 men (RH, RB) followed Boughton Dyke flow from tip to Manor Farm fields looking for slurry … Office … Discuss the findings. Made a borehole site negative for 111s AW as per instruction. Sent by Ron Hays.

Wed 11 … Office … Erecting shelving in Lean to and reorganised tackle etc. Discuss D Rodden re Friday’s meeting and job etc. Job appraisal … discuss D Rodden. Albert Robinson on phone re water from Rufford Lake going down a fissure! … Surface … Went to see the water disappearing down a hole and the Lake water lowering. It was asked if the water could flood 116s. I told them it was impossible as there was a layer of stratum called breccia that stopped water getting from the Sherwood sandstone or Bunter bed into the coal measures.

Thurs 12 … Surface … to Rufford Lake with Sam Cole, Safety Engineer … Water disappeared from Lake down fissure caused by subsidence from workings ... arranged to tip debris, straw, trees etc down the fissure … eventually would plug the hole. Office … Made a report. Stats 113 Conveyor belt return. Sections on 44s, 20s and 58s for Accountability meeting. Discuss Dirt tip plans with George Harris Deputy Area Civil Engineer.

Fri 13 … Office … Pumping negative amended. Information to D Rodden and TJR Sales re Rufford Lake … Surface … Measuring conveyor belts on Pit top … 2 men (RB*, HAR).      

Fri 13 … Evening BACM meeting Plough Inn … Unit Surveyors, Magnus Fairnie Rep.

Sat 14 … 20168 tons

Mon 16 … Office … Put bearings in Dial book. Area HQ progress.

Tues 17 … Office … Sections to date for 44s and 58s. Coloured Dirt tip plans. Bearings and coordinates in Dial book. George Harris and Bernard Bailey came to collect Dirt tip plans.

Wed 18 … U/g … Visit to 44s district, 20s face heading, 62s LG heading and old A2 conveyor … (RB*) (95 u/g)

Thurs 19 … U/g … (49) Theodolite angling and catenary measuring 58s LG … 6 men (RB* SNW, HAR, DS, DE, JA) … Office … Calculated and plotted same. Discuss JA Daniels.

Fri 20 … Office … Discuss Surveyor’s Practical Exam. Notice for Ernie Barber in Lamp Room. General.

Sat 21 ... 19201 tons

Annual Leave 1 Week Mon 23 – Sat 28

Sat 28 … 18376 tons

Mon 30 … Office … General. Progress to date on plans. D Rodden’s Wall plan. Discuss G Weston HMI re 10s Support Rules and amendments. 2 notices for Canteen re Break in. Ron Hays information and farewell.

Tues 31 … Office … Floor dirt sections along old 28s and 10s LG. Looking through old progress tracings. Plotting South Side theodolite check survey. Calculated Dunnose value of theodolite mark TM E, Kilner’s. Drawing of 44s LG panzer for JAD.
Bill Hallam, Fire Officer retired. John Ross Asst U/m on Days, Development, Derek Stephenson, Afters and Ken F Greaves on Nights.
Ron Hays Group Surveyor retired … J Ray Greasley transferred to post of Senior Surveyor from Planning department. (Not a popular move as he had never been a Colliery Surveyor. I accepted him because of the circumstances, He appreciated it, never interfered and we got on well.)

Nov 1972

Wed 1 … Office … More dirt sections back along old 28s LG. Saw Matt Marshall Storekeeper re orders. Sorting out old books and filing same in boxes.

Thurs 2 … Office … Sorting out old dirt sections. Amendment to 44s LG panzer and prints of same. AE Betts discuss Dirt tips and Gyro theodolite. 2 prints off 44s conveyors to Mr Hennessy HQ.

Fri 3 … Office ... Discuss JA D re 10s dirt. Form re Dirt tips (Environment) started. Old sections plotted. Discuss and info to Doug Shields, Ventilation. Letter to HMI re Gyro to be used first week in December.

Sat 4 … 19752 tons

Mon 6 … Office …Sorting out geological records. Plan of proposed borehole at 58s LG. Made a file for boreholes. Sorting out old Pit bottom books and first progress of underground roadways. Plotted same on 2 chains to an inch scale.

Tues 7 … Coloured borehole prints. Drew sketches of 12 past underground boreholes for record. Short discussion with Joe Callinan, Planner.

Wed 8 … U/g … Dial survey and measurements 116s panel … both gates o.k. … 5 men (RB*, SNW, DS, DE, SMG) Fri 10 … Office … Plotting old progress measures.
Retirement Party for Ron Hays at the Plough Inn, Mansfield.

Thurs 9 … Office … Plotting old progress. Surveys of 44s, 58s and 116s panels to date.

Fri 10 … U/g … With D Rodden and HMI R (Bob) Bower to pit bottom main base on old Loco Road for exemption to use Gyro theodolite underground … He was proceeding to check for methane in the roof and then I explained that it was the main intake airway to N and E districts from the nearby DC shaft ... no problem … and saw the funny side when I stated that if we had methane there then the pit would have to close ... He smiled … exemption granted. Office … Continued with plans.

Sat 11 … 19793 tons

Sun 12 … U/g … Party visit including Mary to 10s face and pit bottom No1 shaft and 600 ton bunker … accompanied by Alan Blyton, Ventilation Officer … Sunday morning.

Mon 13 … Office … Tonnages of dirt from Ted Hodgson Surface superintendent to check against Dirt tip records. Discuss JA Daniels re 62s AW development. Continued inking in old gates on plans.

Tues 14 … Continued inking in old gates and dating old workings. Ray Greasley, Senior Surveyor on phone re Dirt tips. Looking through old progress roll plans.

Wed 15 … U/g … (50) Theodolite angling and catenary measuring in 116s AW … 5 men (RB*, SNW, ANM, DS, HAR) … Office … Calculations. (100 u/g)

Thurs 16 … Office … Sorted out sections with Stuart Farnsworth, Cost Clerk and John Raine, Geologist. HMI G Weston discuss re 10s Support Rules. Also plan of Drapers paddy and 650s for him. Discuss Jim Kerr Production Manager re 10s, 62s etc. Discuss Stan Brunskill. Dating plans.

Fri 17 Office … Checking old roads and levels on old Roll plan. 2 plans of values … levels and distances. Plan for Wilf Pearson. Started making a Telephone plan.

Sat 18 … Office … Discuss JAD D/m re accident to Ken Cross Deputy at 58s LG ripping tunnel ... Discuss future planning. (2)
18049 tons

Mon 20 … Office … Calculated and plotted 116s AW theodolite survey. 58s gate end supports layout for John Higginbotham U/m.
 
Tues 21 … Office … Sorting through old sections. … Surface … Levelling at Rufford Lake with (Albert Robinson, book, RB*, and HAR).         
George Pooley (GP left) … unsuitable, Keith Walton (KW) started as a linesman … Austin Brown DPT seconded to Survey dept for a time.
Office … Meeting … re swilley and dirt cut on 10s face.

Wed 22, Thurs 23, Fri 24 Holiday 18020 tons

Mon 27 … Office … General. Discuss AE Betts. Clary Skeavington (part time on boring sites) met Harold Hand, Linesman … reminiscing re their time together in the 1930s and 1940s working for Butterley Co.

Tues 28 … Office … Continued with dates etc. Calculated maximum tonnage per hour off 58s face for D Rodden (275 tons). Info to 10s Deputy’s Meeting re swilley, floor dirt etc. Discuss John Ross re 62s development ‘re-think’.

Wed 29 … Office … Drawing 62s AW turn. Discuss AJ Morley, George H Jackson, Ron Lowther (ex Blidworth), Ray Greasley. Discuss Ken Bullock, Dust Suppression. Sorted out plans and info for a Schoolboy visitor. Discuss Eddie Betts re Gyro next week. Asked re borehole info.

Thurs 30 … Office … Sorting out and labelling old Progress negatives and old Development plans. New folders and titles. Discuss John Raine roadways not in seam around Pit Bottom area...
Albert Robinson Special duties Surveyor retired (would live until he was 97) latterly in a Nursing Home that had been converted from Merrik Spanton’s, ex Director’s house on edge of Edwinstowe village) … Ted Giles Technical Assistant to Manager started.

Dec 1972

Fri 1 … Office … Checking through old Progress books. Calculated check for Station 15 on 400s / Back Road Junction ref to Computer sheet.
Conveyor, haulage and manriders plans and Strategic plan to Cliff Johnson, Head of Method Study (ex Surveyor at Harworth) and discuss.             

Sat 2 … 21021 tons

Mon 4 … Office … Check Gyro observations in Green Hut in Old Cost Clerk’s office due to it raining … (AEB, RB, SNW, ANM, HAR, DS and Austin Brown) and discussion.

Tues 5 … U/g … Gyro theodolite observations on pit bottom main base on old Loco Road …. 8 men (AE Betts AEB, RB, SNW, ANM. DS, HAR plus Austin Brown (AB) Mining student) Wild GAK 1 instrument borrowed from Stoke. First to use it in North Notts Area.
Office … Discuss D Rodden and J Higginbotham.

Wed 6 … U/g … (51) Theodolite angling from old Loco Road via North Loading point to 650s and 24s Roller turn … 6 men (RB*, ANM, HAR, DS, KW and AB) … Office … Discuss J Ross re 62s turn. Pressing through Thoresby workings onto plans.

Thurs 7 … Office ... Calculated and plotted 650s theodolite survey. Looking through old theodolite books.

Fri 8 … Office … Inking levels etc. Discuss staff various.

Sat 9 … 20412 tons

Mon 11 … U/g … (52) Theodolite angling from 650s A2 c/v down 650s trunk road to Scour … 4 men (RB*, ANM, AB, KW).

Tues 12 … U/g … (53) Theodolite angling from 24s Roller turn down 24s Trunks to 2s … 4 men (RB*, ANM, AB, KW) … Office … Calculations.

Wed 13 … Office … Working out bearings to old bases. D Rodden’s Wall plan.Repairing 2 levelling staffs.

Thurs 14 … U/g … (54) Theodolite angling at old A2 conveyor and 600s … 4 men (RB*, HAR, AB, KW) … Office … Plotting progress and sections on plans. Phone AEB re torch for theodolite. (105 u/g)

Fri 15 … Office … Plotting 6 inch plans to date. Tuition to Austin Brown how to do calculations.

Sat 16 … 20508 tons

Mon 18 … Office … Info and Conveyor plan to Terry McAdoo Mech Engr. Discuss same. Discuss D Rodden. Info from Eric Ricketts PPM and Conveyor plan amends.

Tues 19 … U/g … Dial survey and measurements 58s district and adjusted LG line … 5 men (RB*, DS, SMG, CM, AB) … Office … Calculated and plotted same. Plotted 116s levels and contour. Grades etc for 42s LG for D Rodden. Discuss D Rodden Manager re 116s AW approaching 114s AW … he noted same. (105 u/g)

Wed 20 … Office … Discuss Gordon Darrington, Planner. Amended plan re grades etc for Drapers Paddy proposed scissors and meeting D Rodden, W Pearson, Method Study. 3 prints of sketch for T McAdoo.
Party.

Thurs 21 … Office … Tuition to A Brown how to calculate a survey and plot by co-ordinates and by protractor.
Surface … I went to Shirebrook to discuss about shaft deepening (possible at Ollerton as against drifting to Parkgate) … with John Banks Asst and Jack Hurton … to report findings to K Shaw DCME. Did so.

Fri 22 … Office … General discussion John Higginbotham U/m and John Ross Asst U/m various.

Sat 23 … 19102 tons

Mon 25 … Christmas … Tues 26 … Boxing Day … Wed 27 … Holiday

Thurs 28 … Office … Colouring prints. Copy of 10s to date for TJR Sales Production Manager showing backrips, dinting etc.

Fri 29 … Office … Colouring prints. Distributing plans. Ray Greasley came for R & FF plan.

Sat 30 … U/g … Incident … Undergound heating at 24s A conveyor (SNW). 8264 tons
Output for 1972 = 771,909 tons 5 panels 1312 men on books