A Unique History From My Work Diaries

Surveying Jobs

British Coal Nottinghamshire Area

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Jan 1987

Mon 5 … Office … Calendar of events.  Meeting CJ Whyte, WEB Barlow, AR Barnes and self re R & FF plans and also re short lists for Harworth and Annesley Unit posts.  To Ilkeston Rescue Station … discuss George Shields Superintendent and ARB re plans and updates for 5 collieries re HMI Hayes complaint. … Calverton dated 13 Sep on 19 Dec 1986.  Agreed to follow Reg 28 M&Q Act Rescue Regs 1956.  To Clipstone … introduced Tony Barnes.  Office … sorting out 212 notice for Bilsthorpe High Hazles abandonment.(only part of drift driven and not reached the seam) To see Glenn Chappell photographer re Silverhill plans, as he had suggested in Dec. Discuss same WEB B and MD Clarke re same. CJ Whyte re Bill Fox at Creswell.  To Creswell … discuss 33s Threequarter seam SM1 being sent in late re JCH Londen DDM ... report of same wanted.  Office … with CJ Whyte to see JCH Longden DDM re 33s and explained re Bill Fox ‘slip up’. Drafted out letter to send to all Unit Surveyors re making sure SM1s are sent on time.
Notes to follow up: Creswell water, ok. N Derbys water X.   All pits … SM1/ MI 1 forms, GPS. AGA and bolts. Ollerton 4th drift. Blidworth tonnage sheet.

Tues 6 … Office … Drafting out letters.  Checked boundary change plans Welbeck and S Yorks Manton.  Garry Hall Ollerton phoned require a laser.  Phoned HMI F Turton re Bilsthorpe High Hazles proposal abandonment and Creswell 33s SM1 late.  To Creswell to take SM1 notice for 33s and 37s.  Discuss them and various. Also discuss Billy Ellison, Bob Hallott, Peter Williams HP65 … brought 2 back to HQ.  Prints.  Office … D Snodin re possible boundary exchange Harworth / South Yorkshire. Will check. Phoned around collieries re various. Plans etc. for all seams re Water report.  SM1s and system to send to HMI.  Demonstration of instrument GPS Geodimeter 400 and survey stations.  Laser usage. Phoned Malcolm Bellamy Mansfield Woodhouse Laboratory.  Silverhill one returned from Lab ... to check up. Welbeck 4 for repair … to check on also.

Wed 7 … Office … sorting out filing system, continued. Andrew Wells Rufford phoned various and advice. Ian Shaw Thoresby phoned re computer graphics mended.  CJ Whyte re 212 notice and Bilsthorpe High Hazles letter.  Memo made out for Annual Surveyors meeting Feb 19.  To Thoresby … Discuss various and collected updated R & FF plans. Ian Shaw and Ian Y Wilson info re computer … MI 1 no.  To Rescue Station to take Thoresby and Sutton R & FF plans. To Sherwood … discuss various with H Shaw and S Watson. A Year Planner neg taken.

Thurs 8 … Office … sorting out filing system continued.  Phoned T Speed Blidworth re approaching Far Baulker borehole.  Checked with WEBB. Maurice Lamb Boremaster phoned with message for Bob Draper … no reply. CT Thorne Geologist phone re co-ords of Perlethorpe No1 oil bore. Garry Hall phoned re Ollerton Linemen times and system. Phone PG Shaw various.  Discuss various with AR Barnes. Phoned Wild Co …. Left message on answering machine re contact Thoresby for T2 / T16 theodolites.  Meeting CJ Whyte, WEB Barlow, J Hancock, AR Barnes and self.  Discuss Surveyor’s Accountability at Gedling WEBB.  Discuss Agenda for Annual Meeting of Surveyors on Feb 19.  Graham Hall, Bevercotes, phoned re Site Investigator’s course. Phone Richard Clark Gedling re same.  Meeting CJ Whyte, self and Tony Barnes.  Short list for Harworth and Annesley posts.  WEBB re plans for HMI to be copied next week …’a must’ re Harry Parratt … only one photographer from Jan 1.

Fri 9 … To Thoresby … returned R & FF plans and collected HQ set.  To Bevercotes (See Right) … discuss Graham Hall and updated second copy Working plans. 100 copies of chart required.  Office … sorting out continued.  To Thoresby updated second copy Working plans and discuss Ian Shaw.  Office … signed Welbeck / Manton boundary letters.  Welbeck 90s SM1 form.  To Rescue Station to exchange R & FF plans for Ollerton, Blidworth, Annesley and Bentinck.

Mon 12 … Office … Jane Arnold said that the photographer stated that Silverhill Abandonment plans could not be done until next Fri 19.  To Sherwood … updated second copy Working plans and discuss. Took back Risk Assessment plans. Office … Phoning round … J Nightingale Silverhill re Progress plans to send. Also request from Peter Downing Civil Engineer re shaft section. Also re a laser required.  To see Peter Downing obtained copies of all Area shafts.  Phone Bill Fox re Creswell / Langwith pumping figures. No figures from new Water lodge for 2 weeks. Phone Alan Prince N Derbys re same and re Oxcroft water.  Phone Tony Wright Clipstone re lasers. Phone Trevor Speed Blidworth, phone Andy Wells Rufford, Philip Shaw Ollerton, John Grayson Mansfield. Discuss AR Barnes re ordering. P&S re same.  To Ollerton updated second copy Working plans and discuss.

Tues 13 … Office … WEBB re Sherwood plans and copyhold areas and discuss general and job description check. With Tony Barnes checking over old OS County sheets grid. Garry Hall Ollerton phoned re AGA target again. To take him a catalogue. Phone Geoff Austin Bilsthorpe re plans. J Hancock message re Geotronics meeting Friday at 10am. To see Peter Downing Civil Engineer re shaft sections … new copies for Ollerton (Silverhill to come tomorrow).  JR Greasley off work sick. Filing system sorting out and cupboard.  To Bilsthorpe … updated second copy plans.
CJ Whyte phoned at 10.30pm … Ollerton visit tomorrow cancelled due to snow.

Wed 14 … Office … Phoned D Stockham Ollerton U/g visit cancelled today. Office … SM1 form for Mansfield Deep Hard / Piper and SM1 for Welbeck 90s Top Hard to Ventilation dept. Discuss Shirley and Raymond in Mining Registry.  Sorted out Risk Assessment plans. Phone Silverhill re Kern502 instrument. Phoned Survey & General re same and authorised by P & S dept.  Phone Trevor Speed Blidworth re Vickers dial. Phoned Zenith re same, needs delivering. Discuss CJ Whyte. Made a shaft section for Cooper’s shaft at Silverhill. Took Silverhill shaft section to Peter Downing Civil Engineer.  To Thoresby to pick up plans.  To Ollerton, plan from Thoresby and discuss GJD Hall re broken AGA target … look in catalogue. To Mansfield … discuss John Grayson and collected Risk Assessment plans.  Production Manager’s meeting 2.30pm, Brian Wright.  Paper on Mechanical / Electrical reliability.

Thurs 15 … Office … continued filing. Graeme Marshall moving into one office for subsidence. To Ventilation dept. re SM1.  Discuss Jerry Hancock re ordering system etc.  Discuss Tony Barnes re office reorganisation. Discuss CJ Whyte re SM1s check.  Sorting out files.  To Rufford … updated second copy Working plans.  Discuss AL Wells ? new plan for Low Main etc and Risk Assessment and SM1s.  To Blidworth … updated second copy Working plans.  Discuss Trevor Speed, Philip James and Ian Orgill. Checked up on SM1s. Collected Risk Assessment sheet and discuss.  To Rescue Station to take R & FF plans to exchange for Clipstone, Newstead and Blidworth updates. Sorted out all the plans, some new folders needed.

Fri 16 … Office … Discuss M Goldsby DCME re computer graphics.  To Method study dept. discuss Peter?. Phone Des Thompson Harworth re R & FF plans. Discuss Dennis Roebuck Safety dept re SM1 forms. Alan Sharpe Geotronics discuss self and Tony Barnes. Calculated Perlethorpe No1 oil bore co-ordinates from Longitude and Latitude polar co-ords to rectangular using Q tables.  

To Thoresby … demonstration on computer graphics. Garry Hall Ollerton phoned re AGA 220 target to repair.  Office … discuss CJ Whyte re Agenda for Surveyors meeting.  Plans at Rufford and SM1 re Dennis Roebuck signed Rufford 4s Blackshale 1/5000 Layout plan.  Discuss WEBB re overlay tracings or inking on plan.  To Clipstone … updated second copy Working plans.  Discuss Hadi Al Rekabi.  Checked up on SM1s. Also Risk Assessment. Phoned R Sivel Area Costs re survey equipment repairs budget?  To Mansfield … updated second copy Working plans.  Discuss John Grayson and Keith Briggs.  To Rescue Station took Harworth and Mansfield R&FF plans and exchanged. 

Mon 19 … Office … Continued filing. No Photographer for Silverhill Abandonment plans, yet was promised.  Discuss AR Barnes various. Phoned John Grayson Mansfield re R &FF plan missing. Phone Wendy Wain Zenith re Blidworth dial and Creswell laser?  Phone IY Wilson re calculations for Perlethorpe oil bore No1 co-ordinates. Phone Alan Prince Bolsover HQ re pumping figures for Oxcroft etc.

To Welbeck updated second copy Working plans.  Discuss John Hind and John Walls.  Also discuss John Walls interview. Aug 86, R & FF plans (first for 3 ½ years !!! completely out of order (proving yet again there were 14 other pits and Welbeck). To Creswell… updated second copy Working plans.  Discuss Bill Fox, Billy Ellison and Bob Hallott re laser availability and repairs.  To Mansfield … collected the R & FF plan that was missed. Discuss Keith Briggs and Gary Quibell.  To Rescue Station to take Mansfield Deep Hard / Piper R & FF plan.

Tues 20 … Office … sorting out sheets for signing of mine plans and file.  Steve West Subsidence dept. re report for Bevercotes Low Waterloo Layout plan … to get system started as this.  Jane Arnold Tracer re plan updating.  Phone DM Parker Sutton re plans and tackle to take tomorrow. Phone Graham Parker Silverhill re plans tomorrow.  To Harworth … updated second copy Working plans. 

Discuss Peter Thompson and Chris Shail.  Discuss Des Thompson and Maria the Tracer. Office … Checking up on Welbeck 90s Top Hard SM1 form re M Goldsby refused to sign. PGS at Ollerton phone re order parts for AGA 220 target. Norman Preater Welbeck phoned re HP65 gone down also re SM1 form. John Grayson Mansfield phoned re short of Linesmen, Jeff Froggatt WIPS made redundant.  To P & S to get Order number for 2 new HP65s and spare parts for Geotronics. Phoned Geotronics re same (Mrs Gray).  Query Debbie Wawszgzak re plans from Sherwood for Top Hard and Dunsil … phones were down. Discuss CJ Whyte instrument for Jerry Hancock and Ian Burns.  To see M Goldsby DCME re Welbeck 90s SM1 … will not sign unless it is rephrased. Phoned Steve Leavesley at Rufford (Andy Wells sick) re return of barometer to Ventilation dept. Will collect.  Glen Chappell photographer promised Silverhill Abandonment plans on Friday! John Grayson phone re SM1 for adjacent panels ... no, unless a problem.

Retirement Party for Gordon Ison at Clipstone Welfare.

Wed 21 … to Rufford … collected barometer for Ventilation dept.  Office … phone Creswell re laser.  To Welbeck ... SM1 form alteration with Norman Preater re 90s Top Hard extension. Collected spare HP65 calculator. Office ... Order numbers etc. for HP65s and lasers from P & S.  To Sutton … to take old tackle ex Drawing office.  Updated second copy Working plans.  Discuss Peter Robinson and Mike Parker re various and 1in1 drift thirling from Piper to Deep Hard and discrepancies in levels, up to 10 feet!  To Silverhill … re same and updated second copy Working plans. Discuss John Nightingale, Graham Parker and Viv, Tracer.  Obtained 6 inch print. Progress plan and new folder. Office … M Goldsby DCME re Cotgrave SM1 form for K1s Blackshale re 2 boreholes ? re HMI … sorted out with Bob Draper.  Also M Goldsby again, he signed Welbeck 90s Top Hard. Did so but criticized Survey dept. re mentioning 31s Manton panel as possibly being waterlogged … no proof.

Thurs 22 … to Sherwood … ozaloft copies of Top Hard and Dunsil 43/5261 for Subsidence dept. … to Debbie W. Office … discuss WEBB re various and Copyhold payment etc. Discuss CJ Whyte re SM1s etc. and pit visits.  Discuss George Hartley Mech Eng dept. re Creswell pumping figures etc. … trouble at the colliery, with tackle for measuring the water. He had seen the Mech Engineer at the pit. Norman Preater phoned re Terry E Wheatley Production Manager and Richard Dalton Manager re to put back the original plan for 90s Top Hard SM1!  Phone Geoff Austin Bilsthorpe re borehole circles with deviation … explained … elongated. Phoned Garry Hall Ollerton and Steve Leavesley Rufford re pit visit and Accountability. Phoned Graham Hall Bevercotes to alter SM1. Phone Harry Parratt and Jack Staley (Mrs Staley) re repairing a Pjari Tropari borehole survey instrument. To Thoresby ... discuss Ian Wilson re calculations of Perlethorpe No1 oil bore.  Discuss Ian Shaw re SM1s.  To Bevercotes ... to exchange SM1 plan for amendment. Discuss Graham Hall.

Fri 23 … Office … Silverhill Abandonment plans for Low Main for completion to photographer. Phone Glenn Chappell re plan sizes required.!  Sorting out Apprentice files, job interview etc. Reading and filing reports. Phone John Walls Welbeck re SM1 for 90s Top Hard. Terry Wheatley and Richard Dalton re old plan and return again.  Phone DM Parker Sutton.  Discuss Jerry Hancock re water problem at Cotgrave re HMI.  Discuss Jack Staley re repair of Pjari Tropari instrument.  Discuss WEBB various and Welbeck 90s SM1 alteration? R Sivel investigating money budget etc. for Survey tackle, R & R (renew and repair). Discuss David Oldham Area Electrical Engineer re electrical problems at Creswell re pumping, to ask Carl King Group Electrical Engineer. Plans of Chinese mine. Phone IY Wilson calculated result for Perlethorpe No1 oil bore o.k with my calculation but 0.1 seconds alters the co-ords!!  Discuss CJ Whyte re Apprentices and training. AR Barnes and self to split up … 6 each. TR Draper … next Monday to finish borehole plottings.  AR Barnes to ask Geologist re the South pits … water-bearing strata.  Meeting … CJ Whyte, WEBB, ARB and self re staff etc.  Chris Bunyan had requested Michael Mottram Staff dept. re change of job … discuss! To see C Bunyan on Monday at Ollerton. Discuss throughout the Area possible positional change … to wait until after interviews.
To contact BP at Eakring re difference in co-ordinates for oil bores and to request copies of original location sketches.

Mon 26 … To Ollerton … interviewed Chris Bunyan re his request for change of job. Discuss same with Garry Hall.  The AGA 220 target had been returned after repair at Geotechnics. To Thoresby … discuss Ian Shaw, Ian Wilson re Chris Bunyan.  Office … discuss Chris Bunyan with CJ Whyte. Phone Alan Prince Bolsover HQ re pumping figures. Phone Trevor Speed Blidworth re AGA prisms … can’t find same! Phoned majority of collieries to use overlay tracings or outline of workings on plan within 37m. Phone John Walls Welbeck re SM1 for 90s Top Hard … to see M Goldsby.  Phone ST Barnes Bevercotes re SM1 to send. Phone John Stapleton Cotgrave re SM1 for K1s signing.  Phone DM Parker Sutton re P40s development borehole to Sherwood 104s Deep Hard… 60 gals per min on Sat at 2.30pm. Safety dept. checking Creswell 33s from Thoresby 170s Code of Practice for HMI. Discuss Michael Mottram re Chris Bunyan … discuss CJ Whyte re outcome and WEB Barlow. Also re overlay tracings etc for interview questions.

Tues 27 Office … M Goldsby re Welbeck SM1 amended plan and Mansfield Deep Hard / Piper SM1 re added sentence re Deep Soft workings are dry.  With TR Draper, plotted boreholes to date on 6 inch scale. Discuss Brian Tomlinson planner re boreholes missing on 6 inch 1/10560 and 1/5000 plans of Mansfield Deep Soft. Phone Ian Shaw Thoresby re Top Hard Abandonment … colour roadsat Loco horizon. Phone other pits re 37m and overlays. Why didn’t they seem to know? Phone John Bator Secretariat re Welbeck / Manton boundary. Phone Derek Jones re same at Doncaster re procedure. Phone Peter Ryall Manton Surveyor re possibility of water in 31s Manton Top Hard …. Not likely … however possibility of water either side June 1972 in 27s and 30s (re Derek Flint previous Surveyor). Phone Garry Hall re Chris Bunyan to wait several weeks. Phone Mick Clayton Calverton re computer. Phone Stas Watson Sherwood re various. Phone R Sivel re water pumping allocations … checking on Williamthorpe for Silverhill.  Phone Ian Revill Annesley re AGA prism for Friday. 

To Sutton … to take old Piper seam Abandonment plans. Discuss same ... Peter Robinson and Mike Parker. Discuss boring etc. and MJ Dames Manager. Discuss possibility of error in levelling between Silverhill and Sutton … would account for the lack of success with previous borings when using the Pjari Tropari instrument. Regulations etc., T & CP etc.

Wed 28 … Office … Phone Rob Quincey Newstead re 37m. Phone AL Wells Rufford … Underground visit … no for Jan 24. Interviews for Harworth Surveyor. Filing and lists … sorting out for 1/10000 negatives. With Phil Critchley … re old shafts at Wharf Road, Stanton Hill, investigation of records. Discuss WEBB re system for using 1/10560 plans of Working Rights, Ancient Monuments, Parish notices etc. for checking Layout plans, by overlaying Strategic plans.  With Jane Arnold sorting out sheets etc. required for 1/10000 in future for boreholes etc.  Phone Bill Fox Creswell re shaft measuring equipment to borrow again from Hucknall, also re electricians making one at Creswell.  Phone Philip Shaw Ollerton re various and interview. Phone Andy Wells Rufford re Accountability. Phone Steve Lunnon Geologist re 1/10000 boreholes on computer.  Discuss Garry Hall wanting to know what went off.  To Rescue Station to take Silverhill R & FF plans.
Note Teversal water arriving in Pleasley Deep Hard pit bottom at 5 gpm (see 2/4/87)

Thurs 29 … to Rufford … discuss Andy Wells and Bernadette, Tracer.  Workings of other seams in outline, need updating, methods suggested for metricating plans, i.e. Linesmen to help … copies of plans and conversion … spot checks.  Office … discuss AR Barnes. Discuss CJ Whyte re Chris Bunyan and Phil Shaw interview.  Also discuss Bunyan with Eric Fretwell Subsidence dept. Lunch with CJ Whyte, AR Barnes and J Hancock.  Office … Ted Bucklow Vent dept. re Support Rules for Thoresby, Ollerton and Harworth re packs. To Thoresby to get 4 Support Rules prints. To Ollerton to get 2 Support Rules prints. Discuss Chris Bunyan re move to Subsidence dept.  Discuss Philip Shaw re moving house and dedication to the job etc. if chosen for Harworth from interview (re M Goldsby).  Discuss GJD Hall re same. Office … discuss CJ Whyte same and interview for Annesley post.

Fri 30 … Office … Discuss various and interviewees. DM Parker, IY Wilson, ST Barnes, Ian Revill for Annesley. Bilsthorpe change of R & FF plans.  To Ventilation dept. with Ollerton, Thoresby, Harworth Support Rules. Lunch at Robin Hood for Jerry Hancock Retirement Party. Discuss AR Barnes. Discuss CJ Whyte re Agenda for Surveyors meeting.  To Sherwood … Top Hard and Dunsil 43/5261 ozalofts for Subsidence dept. re a Court case (JS Wilson HQ).
Creswell Water reports etc. sorting into order.

February 1987

Mon 2 ...Office ... Discuss M Goldsby DCME re Philip G Shaw and Peter Thompson and merit. etc. and commitment. Memo to South Yorks re 1/10000 plans of seams.  Phone John Grayson Mansfield re amend to 134s High Hazle SM1 ... changed from retreat to advance working re borehole. To Registry re SM1. Phone Bill Fox Creswell re wrong form used for SM1 and method of work for 33s Threequarter seam. Discuss Graeme Marshall various. Discuss AR Barnes re Apprentices and checking forms. Phone Don Simmonds in Safety dept re Terry Hill re meeting. Discuss WEBB re Thoresby Top Hard abandonment re roads at Loco horizon to be used for Parkgate ... not to colour but mention in the report. Phone Graham Hall Bevercotes re 201s Deep Soft Layout plan has 2 borehole circles? Phone Steve Mudd planner re same ... refer to David Snodin.  Discuss Eric Fretwell re order new Wild N2 Level ... refer to WEB Barlow ... No!  Also organising cabinet for room 58 and OS plans to go downstairs.  Discuss Glen Chappell Photographer re Silverhill Abandonment plans 1/2 plate done but waiting for 35mm colour slides.

To Clipstone ... discuss Tony Wright, prints and SM1 form.  To Creswell ... to take SM1 form back and new SM1 form. Discuss Bill Fox.  Discuss Billy Ellison and Bob Hallott various. Took 1/10000 prints from South Yorkshire.
George Simms appointed Surveyor for Annesley.

Tues 3 ... Office ... Apprentice forms.  Agenda for Annual Surveyors meeting to CJ Whyte. Discuss AR Barnes re ordering system re P&S dept. Garry Hall phoned ...

To Bevercotes ... ST Barnes re SM1 form re surface borehole with casing only 6m above Top Hard.  Discuss Graham Hall. Surface visit round tip in Land Rover with CJ Whyte, Graeme Marshall, Graham Hall, Leo Milner and Peter Daffin. CJ Whyte says order Wild N2 Level for Subsidence dept.  WEB Barlow had said no? Lunch and discuss. To Ollerton ... discuss Garry Hall and Denise Tindale re Support Plans, chock installations etc.  To Estates dept. at Thoresby to see Maurice Whittle. Office ... correspondence and discuss JR Greasley various.

Wed 4 ... Office ... to see Glen Chappell photographer ... 2 more 35mm to copy. To Safety dept. Dennis Roebuck and discuss re various and meeting agenda for Area Safety. Phoned Alan Wilkinson Industrial Relations Training ... off work. To Ollerton ... to take roll and discuss work load.  Office ... Ian Shaw Thoresby phoned re work load.  Trevor Speed Blidworth phoned re plans. John Nightingale Silverhill phoned re work. Discuss WEBB re tender for photos.  Discuss CJ Whyte re Peter Thompson appointed Surveyor for Harworth. Also re tackle at Sutton store ... to make an inventory. 

To Blidworth ... to take AGA prisms and 1/5000 and 1/10000 negatives (to be updated). Discuss Ian Orgill progress. Office ... to see Bert Grime ATT and Ken Hartwell and Sid Deeley ... borrowed video of Thoresby borehole.  Borehole sheets and copies for self and Rufford.  Discuss CJ Whyte re staff.  Listing work program for the year.  Cupboard from downstairs Subsidence dept. and to move OS plans down later.   

Thurs 5 ... Office ... Returned video to Bert Grime ATT.  Began plotting boreholes on SK46 1/10000.  Phoned Mike Parker Sutton re SM1 form not complete for 52s Piper.  To Sutton returned the SM1 form. To the old Store room.  Sorted out all old tackle and made inventory of equipment. Scrapped some old tackle, dial legs etc. CTS bomb 2 minute dial and broken staves to Tony Whelan Admin Officer. 49 items labelled and 22 instruments labelled and list made. Phone AR Barnes ok. Discuss DM Parker various. Checked angles.  Office ... sorted out order form for Wild N2 Level, informed EW Fretwell. Rang Wild to confirm price of £923 less discount. Received P & S sheets for 2 HP65 calculators and Geotronics AGA 220 target repairs.

Fri 6 ... Office ... Note for Glen Chappell re 2 x 1/2500 blow up from 1/2 plate for Silverhill Abandonment plans for Low Main. To see CJ Whyte re Silverhill Deep Hard difference in levels around 10 feet to Sutton values. Also re inventory of survey equipment in Sutton store. With Phil Critchley and Phil Garner ... inventory of survey equipment in Area Store.   To Sutton ... to take 200 copies of calculation sheets. Discuss DM Parker re Sutton end of levelling for Silverhill / Sutton connection etc.

To Silverhill ... going through Levelling notebooks and extracting values for BMs on 81s, 82s, 83s, 84s and 85s Deep Hard for checking. Poor system, no back checking etc. etc. etc. I suggested gross errors crept in. Phone Jane Arnold ... Sutton 52s Piper SM1 ... note from TE Wheatley Production Manager ... not required now ?

Sat 7 ... Bought a 1985 Mazda 626, Ming Blue

Mon 9 ... Office ... Phoned PJK Robinson Sutton re 52s Piper was stopping working that week so SM1 form not required. He didn't know. Phoning round all pits in North Notts. for CJ Whyte ... staff info, how many years at that pit etc.  ARB re-equipment held and to copy. Discuss WEB Barlow various. Plans to P Williams General Services for printing on a new type machine. To Silverhill continued sorting out Deep Hard levels from old books. Checked on Piper / Deep Hard connection to Sutton ... no information in Piper book. Only evidence at Sutton by G Ison in 1971. Phone Chris Thorne Geologist re payment for BGS for December and Ron Goosens for 2 days. To Sutton ... Peter Robinson re SM1 form for 52s taken back.

Tues 10 ... To Harworth 7.30am. Underground pit visit with CJ Whyte, Des Thompson and Peter Thompson to Deep Soft 2s face and development, Also pit bottom and vertical bunker tube etc. Lunch in canteen plus WEB Barlow.  Accountability of plans and records etc ... finished 5.00pm.
To make 2 new pit bottom Working plan sections, one for Deep Soft and one for Haighmoor seam. Also one later for Kents Thick.

Wed 11 ... Office ... Phone Bob Hallott Creswell re Langwith pumping figures. Discuss 7 days pumping with Albert E Mapp DCME Mining.  Discuss Graeme Marshall re old shafts. Discuss AR Barnes re SM1s. Phone Hadi Al Rekabi Clipstone re parts missing ... 102s. Phone John Grayson Mansfield re SM1s. Discuss CJ Whyte re various and 134s Deep Soft change of plan to put into file. Phone Graham Hall Bevercotes re SM1s (8s TH). To P&S re documents and sorted out orders. To Ollerton ... going through all correlation files and surveys done by self with Garry Hall. Interview with Chris Bunyan re job prospect and Chartered Surveyor's course.

Thurs 12 ... Office ... 1/10000 Quarter sheets from Steve Lunnon Geologist, checking over and colouring same. Phone John Grayson Mansfield re Water Action plan, Water discharge reports and discuss G Marshall and I Burns. Phone John Walls Welbeck. Water Action plan update.  Phone Marjorie Fields BP Eakring re visit.  Phone Geoff Austin Bilsthorpe re Water Action plan and queried him re Silverhill Deep Hard levelling when he worked there. To Ollerton to take prism and collect plans and info. Discuss Joe Ottewell Safety Engineer. To Clipstone ... discuss Tony Wright and Hadi. Production Manager's meeting 3pm BC Wright. Phone Jack Milburn re Harworth Barnsley Abandonment plans ... 2 held back ... CJ Whyte had written a letter to HMI, Need to finish the plan then re - photograph..

Fri 13 ... Office ... Sorting out borehole info.  With Jane Arnold checking exchange plans ... to have boundaries updated. Discuss R A Caunt Chief Mining Engineer.  To BP Exploration office at Eakring. Discuss and info from Marjorie Fields and Fred ?  re Perlethorpe No1 and Eakring G1 bores also full computer log and 1/10560 plan of Eakring and 1/10560 plan of Bothamsall.

To Bilsthorpe ... discuss and checking Eakring oil bores with Graham Kemp. Discuss Geoff Austin Silverhill levels and staff check? Discuss Graham Millward and Denise Tindale. Office ... Phone John Shone Thyssens re contact at Ollerton for 4th drift Top Hard to Parkgate. Phoned Philip Shaw Ollerton re same.  Discuss WEBB re Chris Bunyan ... stop RICS course. Phone Michael Mottram's secretary re same.  Discuss Bob Saunders Civil Engr re proposed filling of Rufford No1 shaft. Phoned Andy Wells Rufford re details of water-bearing strata etc.

Mon 16 ... Office ... Sorting out boreholes. Noticed Teversal shafts and old shafts missing !!! Phoned Chris Thorne, he was not aware. Made out list of co-ordinates scaled from G I 1/2500 plans. Listed co-ordinates on location plans in old shafts file. Phone Garry Hall re Chris Bunyan ... not happy.  Discuss CJ Whyte re Bunyan ... to organise an interview re RICS ... no!,. Also discussed old shafts missing on plans. Discuss CJ Whyte and WEBB re photography ... turned down. Phone Bill Fox re Creswell water figs.  Phone Alan Prince Bolsover re pumping water figures. Discuss Carl King Elec Ops Engr re making a shaft measure for Langwith. Phone John Nightingale Silverhill various and levels. To Silverhill to take a parallel rule and collected 2 Invar bands for deposit.

Tues 17 ... Plotted all old shafts on 1/10000 print from Geological dept. Phone Bill Fox Creswell re 150m to go notice ... stopping panel short. Phone Garry Hall re notebooks needed. Discuss WEBB re same ... some in stock ok. Discuss TR Draper re old shafts and took list of co-ordinates. Reference re Shaft index to contain all shafts ... working or not.  To Geological dept at Forest ... discuss CT Thorne re old shafts and took list of co-ordinates. To Thoresby ... discuss Ian Shaw. Took 1/10560 print of Bothamsall oil field including Apleyhead and Perlethorpe. To Ollerton ... discuss Garry Hall.  Took list of note books from Andy Hutchins, Stationery office.  Phone Ian Shaw Thoresby re info on Top Hard Abandonment plan ... Dunsil heading.  Phone Bill Fox Creswell ... found 50s ... 150m to go ... never sent by Manager. Phone John Nightingale Silverhill re Kern DM502 instrument from Survey & General ... out of adjustment etc! Phoned Survey & General office ... agreed to have instrument back sent by Securicor. Phone Derek Jones Doncaster ... requested plan of Creswell Threequarter ... suggested 10 year plan for boundary adjustment possibility. Phoned CJ Whyte at Annesley re ok to send plan.  Phone Jack Hurton planner request new plan. Phone John Shone Thyssens ... info re 4th drift at Ollerton.
500 R & FF folders I ordered now received.

Wed 18 ... Office ... Phone Don Simmonds Safety dept. re various. To Moorgreen Training Centre ... Gave a lecture on Safety Inspectors, Surface plans, Dirt tips, Accidents and Incidents and Emergency Organisation.  Lunch ... To Hucknall ... discuss Gary Blacknell re shaft fill operation. To No3 and No4 shafts assisted to measure shafts fill with shotfiring cable and mercury toggle switch. Discuss later David Ings Elec Engr and AR Barnes.

Thurs 19 ... Office ... Annual Meeting of Surveyors. I gave a talk on Water Action plans and R & FF plans. Terry Hill Safety dept. re SM1 forms. Discuss Tony Barnes, Bert Grime ATT and Tony Pickering Area Ventilation Engr re proposed boreholes from Bentinck into Moorgreen old workings.

Fri 20 ... To Bestwood with Tony Barnes. Sorted out old survey tackle and made an inventory.  To Sutton with Tony Barnes ... Took survey tackle to Sutton store room. Discuss Peter Robinson and Mike Parker Silverhill levels etc. Office ... Took some survey equipment to HQ store. Phone Peter Thompson Harworth re position of surface borehole to check.  CJ Whyte re Dick Bradley at Bevercotes Award application for using a laser beam low down for track laying. Ian Burns re instruments from Sutton. Also re Harworth Demarcation plan to amend re Coal Prep. Plan to Jane Arnold. Sutton colliery dewatering exercise folder for Sherwood Deep Hard from 40s Piper.
Note ... Demarcation Ollerton and Harworth. To see M Goldsby re photos.  To phone Marjorie Fields BP. To see Water Report Creswell.  P&S for HP 65s and instruments. Silverhill Abandonment plans for Low Main.  

Mon 23 ... Office ... Showing AR Barnes and M Goldsby how to use a Pjari Tropari borehole surveying instrument ... for Bentinck boreholes to Moorgreen. Phone Derek Jones Doncaster twice re Creswell Threequarter re High Moor boundary. P&S re HP 65s.  Saw Jack Hurton planner and Roy Stubbs Area Planner re same.  Informed CJ Whyte. Phone Marjorie Fields BP re meeting.  Discuss M Goldsby re problem of photographing plans etc. Calculated Normay borehole position from Latitudes and Longitudes and phoned Peter Thompson Harworth re same. Discuss David Snodin planner re same and Bevercotes Low Waterloo Layout plan. Phone John Raine Area Geologist re Bothamsall oil bores. Discuss Ian Gill Geologist re same and Bob Draper. Phoned Ian Gill to go to meeting with BP at Eakring at 10am Thursday 26th. Discuss Phil Critchley subsidence. Phone Nigel Ward re pegs etc, refer to Eric Fretwell.  Sorting out E449650 N377700, E451650 N370500, E451 130 N379500 and E453100 N378300.  To Ollerton ... discuss Philip Shaw various ... discuss Jim Stewart Assistant Manager, discuss Chris Bunyan Apprentice. Phone message re Area HQ.

Tues 24 ... to Bevercotes ...Underground visit to 207s Deep Soft and developments with CJ Whyte and Graham Hall.  Accountability with CJ Whyte, WEB Barlow and self. Need to metricate overlays for Parkgate seam.

Wed 25 ... Office ... Phone Civil Engineers re Rufford No1 shaft fill section.  Letter from Severn Trent WA ... discuss WEBB. Phone Harworth, Creswell, Rufford pits re lasers. Phone pits re coal stocks ... Cotgrave, Bentinck, Gedling, Welbeck, Thoresby.  Spoke to Peter Downing Civil Engr re Rufford shaft. To Ventilation dept. ... retrieved Bevercotes 7s SM1 ... they had lost it! Phone Philip Shaw Ollerton ... Chris Bunyan failed to turn in for work. Phone Peter Daffin re complete set of Demarcation plans requested ... will come back with amends if required.  Sorting out info re shaft filling etc, Production Instruction and copy.  Sorting out up to date SIM negatives for Mansfield with Jane Arnold Tracer. To Rufford ... to collect laser and to take shaft section proposal for filling No1 and discuss same with Steve Leavesley also R & FF folders.  To Mansfield to take ozaloft negatives of up to date OS sheet for Rescue Borehole file. Discuss John Grayson, Keith Briggs and Gary Quibell R & FF folders.

Thurs 26 ... To Sherwood ... to take V laser from Rufford. Also R & FF folders. Office ... Discuss CJ Whyte and Tony Barnes re staff moves. To BP Office at Eakring with Bob Draper. Meeting 10am ... chair Laurie Horobin plus 6 others. To discuss present plans to mill out Bothamsall boreholes Numbers 10, 15 and 18 starting at the end of March. Office ... Discuss Alf Evans. Discuss CJ Whyte re letter for STWA for Rufford No1 shaft fill ... has been amended to include more limestone ... referred to Peter Downing Civil Engr.  To Harworth ... with CJ Whyte and WEB Barlow.  Lunch with Des Thompson and Peter Thompson at the Pilgrim Fathers.  Office ... Discuss CJ Whyte re BP meeting and outcome. To Geological dept with copy of Abandonment program for Bothamsall wells to John Raine and discuss, Discuss Chris Thorne Bevercotes reserves. Discuss Steve Lunnon re computer plans. Office ... Phone Mike Parker Sutton. Phone Ian Shaw re make inventory of tackle at Thoresby. Phone Graham Kemp Bilsthorpe re Ollerton / Bilsthorpe use of Denise Tindale Tracer re Ollerton Contractors plans.

Fri 27 ... Office ... Made out new form for Layout plans. Phone John Grayson Mansfield re further negatives required for Rescue borehole areas. To take some. Discuss Tony Barnes, Nev Wood Chief Scientist and Paul re water problems at Bentinck complex re boreholes etc. to Moorgreen and Babbington.  Phone Ian Y Wilson Thoresby re laser repair ... to phone Welbeck. To Welbeck to take 80 R & FF folders and discuss John Walls re Bothamsall oil bores and co-ordinates.  Lunch at Annesley Welfare. Presentation to both Des Thompson and Ken Gray on their retirement. With CJ Whyte and WEB Barlow called at Clipstone and discuss Tony Wright and Hadi Al Rekabi various and Layout Plan for  Clipstone Deep Soft, 5 panels. Office ... Discuss Martin Bradder planner re same ... more info needed. Phone Ian Shaw Thoresby re R & FF information sheet ... contact Ollerton. Eric Fretwell re ordering subsidence markers. P&S ordered subsidence markers from Nigel Ward.  Discuss WEBB re Layout plans.  CJ Whyte re various and BP oil ... draft method of milling out oil bores 10, 15 and 19 at Bothamsall. To see John Raine at Forest office and he agreed. Office ... CJ Whyte signed same ... posted to Laurie Horobin BP. Phoned Laurie at BP re same. Discuss Graeme Marshall..

March 1987

Mon 2 … to Sherwood to take ozaloft material. To Mansfield to take 1/2500 O.S. negatives for Rescue borehole info. Discuss John Grayson and Keith Briggs … Office … Phone Peter Robinson Sutton re instruments purchased and cheque for payment. Phone Trevor Speed Blidworth re same and to take negatives and template.  Phone Andy Wells Rufford re coal stocks (Area pile) re University of Nottingham or Polytechnic … WEB Barlow says No!  Phoned N Derbys Bolsover re water figures.  To see Peter Williams re photos and prints of plans etc. To Bestwood with Tony Barnes … cleared out remaining survey equipment and got some photographs.  To Sutton … transported equipment to Store room … discuss Peter Robinson and Mike Parker.

Tues 3 … Office … LP 090/5/LP/1 Clipstone Deep Soft S102s, 105s, 110sA, 118s, 119s. LP 12 /10/178 Rufford Yard / Blackshale 208s 1/2500 … discuss same with additions etc with Martin Bradder.  To Planning dept for Strategic plans.  Phone Andy Wells Rufford re same, several times.  Discuss WEB Barlow same. Phone Brian Hopkinson Marketing re coal stocks surveys. Phoned pits re same.  Sorted out Strategic plans into folder in the office. To Blidworth … took 25 R & FF folders, plan template for gridding, ozaloft negatives for Rescue boreholes 1/2500 and 1/50000 neg for triangulation, Discuss Ian Orgill and Bernie, Tracer.

Wed 4 … Office … Phone Philip Shaw Ollerton re HP65 programs. P & S dept re instruments for PJK Robinson Sutton. To Typing pool STWA Rufford letter. Discuss TR Draper and Maurice Lamb re boreholes. Query Civil Engineers re Rufford shaft fill spec correct? Phone Tony Maddock Sherwood re finishing date of 126s Deep Hard / Piper panel … still salvage cuts to take. Phone Ian Orgill re Rufford stock. Phone Garry Hall re staff position … Chris Bunyan leaving next Tuesday … failed 3 days last week and today also. Phone Graham Hall Bevercotes, needs 6 plan sheets and template. Phone Eric Fretwell Subsidence re order Amstrad PC1512 and P & S form. Phone Andy Wells Rufford re survey coal stocks next Wednesday. Phone Cartographic Aerial Survey re flights … 9am tomorrow. Fetched 1/10560 scale borehole negs from downstairs … to check 1/10000. Phone Ian Shaw Thoresby re T2 theodolite, vertical circle 1 minute difference ... I advised to phone Wild and Zenith.  Discuss CJ Whyte re updates. To Bothamsall oil boring with Bob Draper. Phone Bill Fox, Creswell re lasers for repair. Phone Wendy Wain re T2 theodolite and lasers, spoke to Tim re same. Phone Ian Wilson and Ian Shaw Thoresby re T2.  P & S orders x 3 (Lasers £800 to go later). Discuss Ian Smith Estates.

Thurs 5 … to Rescue Station to exchange Rufford R & FF plans. Office … to see Glen Chappell photographer re Silverhill plans … next week! Discuss Rep John ? from Cartographics Aerial flights re possible contract for tip flights. With Graeme Marshall, Tony Barnes and Ian Burns. Phone Andy Wells Rufford re stocks. Discuss Don Brown Area Civil Engineer re letter to Seven Trent re Rufford No1 shaft fill … amend to typing pool. CJ Whyte signed same … distributed. Phone Bill Fox Creswell. Sorting out plans with Jane Arnold for Creswell.  To Thoresby … discuss computer etc., also took R & FF folders … discuss Ian Shaw, Ian Wilson, Lee Cammack and Keith Jenkins. Discuss Steve Lunnon re further geological prints. Met Wendy Wain … demonstration of Zeiss 1 minute theodolite / Level combination ... Appeared to be very good … to use at 2 pits on trial soon.  To Ollerton … discuss Garry Hall, Philip Shaw, Denise Tindale and Jim Stewart Assistant Manager re various. Also re staff replacement. Delivered R & FF folders and S51 pens. Office … Phone Bob Saunders Civil Engineer re Rufford No1 shaft spec … o.k. and letter.  Phone Norman Preater Welbeck re possible enlargements from 1/10560 to 1/10000 for Top Hard, Deep Soft and surface … to check.

Fri 7 … Office ... to Registry at the Forest … sorting out files with Raymond and Shirley. Phone Hewlett Packard re HP 65s just repaired not working! To Andrew, sent same back.  Discuss CJ Whyte and Tony Barnes re short lists for Deputy Surveyors.  Phoned round pits for grid templates. Discuss Mike Gebbett re computers / calculators. Phone John Nightingale Silverhill re borrow plan template for Bevercotes. Wendy Wain discuss re instruments. Lunch Greendale Oak.  To Creswell … discuss Bill Fox re Creswell water problems over the years.

Mon 9 … to Rescue Station to exchange Rufford R & FF plans. Office ... Info for all collieries re pumping figures for 1986 ... Added up the quantities. Discuss Burns Environment queries. Phone Bill Fox Creswell pumping figures, Langwith etc. Phone N Derbys Bolsover HQ re Oxcroft and other info required re Pumping stations and responsibilities. Discuss CJ Whyte various. Phone John Nightingale Silverhill re DKM 502 instrument out of adjustment. Phoned Survey & General re same … Colin Robinson. Received more 1/10000 borehole plans from Geological dept. Discuss Tony Barnes re BGS plans. Phone Garry Hall Ollerton re staff and water bill for £4000 + 1986 ?  Sorted out 25 flat sheets.  Discuss CJ Whyte and Tony Barnes re staff moves possibly. Discuss Glen Chappell photographer and Sue re photos required for pits. Phoned round pits re same… Bevercotes, Bilsthorpe, Blidworth, Creswell, Clipstone, Mansfield, Silverhill. Phone John Grayson Mansfield re Long Service certificates … help?  To Clipstone to take R & FF folders.

Tues 10 … to Silverhill … to take 6 pagra sheets and R & FF folders … discuss staff etc with John Nightingale. I gridded 19 pagra sheets using the template! Obtained sheet for tacheo survey.  To Sutton … to take Watts Level and tripod and R & FF folders.  Discuss Peter Robinson and Mike Parker. Discuss Graham Bradshaw Safety Officer (ex Teversal Colliery Overman) and Owen Swift Fire Officer (ex Teversal). Phone Garry Hall re Ollerton well, etc! Never seems to sort things out himself like I did. To Bevercotes to take set of dial legs and spares, also 6 pagra sheets. Discuss Graham Hall and prints.  Office … Discuss Tony Barnes various.  Graeme Marshall got me a Bocking protractor. To Rufford to take Kern Tacheo, legs and stave. Discuss Andy Wells and Mick Bedford … I programmed HP65.
Collected Peugeot 309 from Carnells.

Wed 11 … to Rufford … tacheo survey of coal heap stock Blidworth 80,000 tonnes and Rufford 9,500 tonnes with Ian Orgill and Melvyn (linesman). Calculations. Office … Calculated and plotted coal stock surveys. Phone Graham Hall Bevercotes re scrap battery schedules.  Phone Hewlett Packard re HP65s and letter to state that HP65s are discontinued and will shortly finish for repairs!!! HP41CV replace? £140 + £180 card.  Discuss Tony Barnes.

Thurs 12 … Office … completed calculating coal stocks survey. Planimeter readings etc. Discuss Rep from Hall & Watts, Steve Finnemore … demo of Laser level … to be contacted later. M Goldsby DCME required a sketch of Bentinck complex water diagram. WEB Barlow re photography of plans … 900? … no, only a start!  Discuss Tony Barnes. Jane Arnold, Tracer handed in her notice to join NHS Ambulance. To Rufford … discuss Andy Wells … SM1 form for Yard / Blackshale roads.  Production Manager’s meeting BC Wright.  Russ Worsey planner talk on Contractors operations at pits … meeting agenda.  Discuss Andy Wells and John Dixon planner.  Phone Jane re John Grayson re Long Service certificates help …

Fri 13 … Office … discuss Tony Barnes re Group Meeting agenda.  To P & S re outstanding issues etc and delivery of NA2 Level to Subsidence dept, EW Fretwell. Also P  S sheets for WEB Barlow to countersign. Phone John Grayson Mansfield re check dates for Long Service certificates to be done. Phone Tony Wright Clipstone re dial to borrow from Ollerton. Phone Garry Hall Ollerton re dial to Clipstone and replacement staff … Chris Bunyan finished … pay docked! Phone Richard Clark Gedling re coal stocks. Phone Dick Bramley Calverton re coal stocks. Phone Howard Rockley Laboratory re density factor for coal stocks. To Thoresby to take parallel rule … discuss computer with Lee Cammack, Mick Clayton and Eric Pendleton Calverton. To Ollerton to collect Watts 5 minute dial. Discuss short fall in staff. Also possible new Support Rules with Garry Hall … Called to see C Walter Standage (retired) at his home Kingston Drive Ollerton. To Clipstone to take Watts 5 minute dial and picked damaged dial. Discuss Hadi, Tom, Ian and Karen.  To Blidworth to take a set of Kern Level legs from Area store. Picked up set for repair. Discuss general with Philip James and Ian Orgill.
Collected Mazda B401 KAL from Carnells.

Mon 16 … Office … Phone Alan Prince N Derbys Bolsover re Oxcroft pumping figures.  Phone Ray Rushton N Derbys re Whitwell position and workings from High Moor and Two Feet seams for CJ Whyte re meeting with R Straw Deputy Director Admin. Sorting out pumping figures for Area to date and previous.  Phone Peter Robinson Sutton re receipt of Sharp calculator today. Phone Tony Wright Clipstone re news of his calculator … no.  Phone Bill Fox Creswell re pumping figures and Langwith and discuss Whitwell and Langwith tips. P & S with repairs for Clipstone, Blidworth and Thoresby. Phone David Miller Ops Engineer re laser target and frame Dick Bradley Bevercotes. With Tony Barnes … sorted out all collieries for buildings and coal stocks etc with 250m and 1000m of pit head for General Development Order (GDO) … DOE want 50m! Reading reports for Whitwell, Creswell etc. Layout plans for Harworth Swallow Wood 1/5000. Layout plan for Silverhill Piper and Blackshale.  Discuss Peter Thompson Harworth re interaction for Haigh Moor and Barnsley seams … I made sketches etc.  Phoned CJ Whyte re photos … started training Sue last Monday … on Abandonment plans. Phone Bill Fox Creswell re Threequarter water figures.

Tues 17 … Office … Copies of surface negs for Creswell, Whitwell, Welbeck area. Phoned round re for info and number of HP65 calculators.  Sent HP65 to Hewlett Packard for repair … last one?  Asked Bob Draper for borehole sheets for Harworth.  M Goldsby DCME re Gedling SM1 query. BC Wright Production Manager query re Rufford SM1.  Phone John Hind Welbeck re copies off 1/10560 to 1/10000 by photography. Jane Arnold asked Glen Chappell.  To Bilsthorpe … discuss Geoff Austin and Graham Kemp and Graham Millward re Sharpe calculator. Also re co-ords from BP for Eakring oil wells … not many agree!!! Mark Wright Apprentice back from College.  To Rufford … discuss Andy Wells re SM1 and plan. Also re interim procedure for Deputies.

Wed 18 … Office … Phone Norman Dunks Linby re HP65. Old pumping figures for comparison with now. Discuss Rob Quincey … went … Newstead to close. Discuss Gary Bardill Opencast Executive.  Discuss Andy Wells Rufford re interview for Rufford Deputy. Plan for boundary re Whitwell / Creswell … discuss CJ Whyte.  Phone Ray Rushton Senior Surveyor Bolsover re Derbyshire side. Phone Chris ? re plan for L300s Markham Waterloo. Pone Eric Pendleton Calverton re various. Discuss John Dixon planner re Demarcation plan for Mansfield / Sherwood underground connection … composed letter for same. To Registry at Forest re old files.  Discuss WEB Barlow re plans for publication of working. Phone Brian Hopkinson Marketing re Rufford / Blidworth coal stocks figures. Sorted out plan for Mansfield / Sherwood connection. To Sutton … discuss Peter Robinson and Mick Dames Manager … Sharpe computer demo.

Thurs 19 … Office … Discuss WEB Barlow … Sec 2 notices etc, SSSIs, Br Rail etc Silverhill Piper and Blackshale. TR Draper copies of boreholes for Harworth. To Clipstone with WEB Barlow … discuss and surface visit with Tony Wright … to winder house and observations of Koepe ropes and sheaves re rope wear. … Markhams to adjust and change the rope this weekend.  Office … continued with plan for Notts / Derbys border re Whitwell and with CJ Whyte re same and copy of 1 inch to 1 mile plan also.  Discuss CJ Whyte re staff situation. Lunch with Tony Barnes and Jane Arnold at the Red Lion, Wellow.  To Sports hut … Self-rescuer training with Graeme Marshall.  Continued with u/g Demarcation plan for Mansfield / Sherwood.  CJ Whyte re Area Instructions to issue.  To Sherwood … discuss Herbert Shaw re demarcation and 1/10560 ozaloft copy of workings.

Fri 20 … Annual leave. Train trip … Leeds – Carlisle – Lancaster – Morecombe – Leeds.

Mon 23 … Office … P & S re laser form and receipt for Thoresby T2 theodolite.  Phone Ray Greasley. Water figures, phoned Bill Fox Creswell. Brian Hopkinson Marketing re coal stocks figures … again! Ken Lambert Ventilation dept re Mansfield / Sherwood Deep Hard /  Piper connection.  Phone Andy Wells Rufford.  To Rufford to take HP65 calculator and bring in one for repair, also collected Kern Tacheo.  Discuss Andy Wells.  Office … Discuss Roy Stubbs Area Planning Engineer and Russ Worsey re boundaries for Notts and N Derbys in all seams re Central Area … discuss Jack Hurton planner re same. Phone Eric Pendleton Calverton re computer.  Discuss WEB Barlow. Listing Area boundary alterations ready for future reference. Discuss Carl King Group Electrical Engineer … says Elect Engr at Creswell making a reel for measuring water at Langwith shaft.  To Creswell to fetch HP65.  Discuss Bill Fox re N Derbys water.

Tues 24 … Office … Sorting out boundaries. Phone Brian Chapman and Alan Prince N Derys Bolsover re  water figures and other pumping.  Phone Stas Watson Sherwood re HP41 and proposed visit. Phone Norman Preater Welbeck.  Discuss CJ Whyte re staff with Tony Barnes and Eric Fretwell.  To Ventilation dept ... Ted Bucklow re Bevercotes TH 8s SM1.  To Welbeck … to take new Jees staff and 2 springs and 1 tape, 1 R & FF stencil, 1 Electrical symbol stencil.  Info re HP41 continued and discuss. The HP65 to be sent for repair. Phone Chris Thorne Geologist re Bothamsall No15 oil well.  Office … Phone Chris Thorne re seam depths for milling out the casing.  Discuss Bob Draper re same and to meet Laurie Horobin at BP Eakring. Also re Bevercotes Eaton Breck surface borehole and Wragby, following phone call from Graham Hall Bevercotes.  Discuss Russ Worsey planner re boundaries etc for Friday.  Discuss WEB Barlow re boundary at Whitwell … query?  Phone John Grayson Mansfield HP41 cv.  Discuss Tony Barnes re water chart for info supplied.
Party for Jane Arnold Tracer leaving to join Ambulance Service.

Wed 25 … Office … Plan for boundaries … Central Area / Notts.  Plan for u/g demarcation Sherwood and Mansfield. To Sherwood … with Stas Watson re all known boundaries put on 1/10560 negative.  Discuss HP41 calculator then U/g with Herbert Shaw and Stas Watson and CJ Whyte to 131s Deep Hard / Piper 60 m long retreat panel. Lunch at the Pheasant Inn then Accountability of records and plans. Ok apart from Dates needed on headings. Phone Garry Hall re springs for underground levelling staves. Saw Steve Lunnon Geologist re further borehole prints.

Thurs 26 … to Mansfield … Demarcation plan for Mansfield / Sherwood workings. Discuss re HP41. Info extracted off boundary plan. To Clipstone … Boundary plans, info exchanged re Tony Wright. Office … Boundaries put on 1/10560 negative, discuss Roy Stubbs Area Planning Engr re same. Sorting through boundary files. Phone Malcolm D Clarke re Harworth 1/5000 signing?  Phone Garry Hall re staff springs again and Dunnose calc sheets.  Discuss Bob Draper re Bothamsall oil well reaming and letter from BP for Nos 10, 15 and 19 holes. Continued with boundary plan ...  Meeting ... CJ Whyte, WEB Barlow AR Barnes and self re staff … Tracer … various options and Debbie Wawszczak to start Room 15 Monday, transferred from Subsidence dept. Phone Mike Gallagher Inland Revenue Mineral Valuer re surface plan for Langwith.  Continued with boundaries and colouring prints.  To Rescue Stationto exchange Bilsthorpe R & FF plans re 111s Low Main sealed off yesterday re heating.

Fri 27 … Office … Finished boundary plan. Discuss Roy Stubbs Area Planner and Russ Worsey. Meeting M Goldsby DCME, CJ Whyte, AR Barnes and self re Water reports for May.  To Welbeck … to take HP65. Discuss John Walls re Autoplummet UC shaft measure and surface and 3 underground Gyro sites for June ? July 1987.  To Ollerton to take Electrical Cut off plan and discuss Garry Hall.
Retirement Party for Jack Milburn, Mining Records and Ray Greasley Senior Surveyor at the Robin Hood.
Office … discuss.  To Rufford … Electrical cut off plan and discuss and Andy Wells to re-write SM1 form for 208s Yard / Blackshale.  Collected Risk Assessment folder (new style … first one).  To Rescue Station … exchanged Annesley Bentinck R & FF plans.

Mon 28 … Office … Debbie Warszczak (Vaffchak) started as my Tracer, transferred from Subsidence dept.  She was not a Happy Bunny and showed it. Discussion and duties. She would enjoy the job as she realised it was not as pressurised in the Subsidence section. Phone Bill Fox re Creswell water figures. Phone Bolsover re N Derbys figures. Phone Coleorton, Brian Chapman re pumping figures. Phoned pits for pumping figures.  Phone Peter Clarke Area Surveyor & Minerals Manager Bolsover re Teversal and Williamthorpe water. (Norman Smedley had retired before, when ?) Mansfield / Sherwood demarcation plan.  Discuss Mike Gallagher Inland Revenue Mineral Valuer re Langwith and supplied a plan.  Meeting … CJ Whyte, WEB Barlow, AR Barnes and self re staff proposals.

Tues 31 … Office … sorting out Water reports.  To Thoresby … discuss and prints with Debbie and Ian Shaw and Electrical cut off plan. To Harworth … discuss Peter Thompson re borehole plans and Electrical cut off plan and 6 R & FF folders. Plan for shaft measure etc.  Phone Debbie.  Office … Phone pits re Merthyr Vale Cut off Electrical plan, sent out to all pits missing. Phone Deputy Director Admin R Straw  re Licensed Mines?  CJ Whyte re same … got out ORG 67. Phone Cartographic Services … to see G Marshall. Discuss T Wright Salaries Liaison re bonus. Discuss Mike Pope Deputy Area Staff Manager re same … cannot help, done on National basis but will ask John Waters Staff Manager.

April 1987

Wed 1 … Office … Roger Bexon Production Manager phoned re pollution in Ouse Dyke at Gedling. Informed Ian Burns. Checking Silverhill Piper and Blackshale 1/5000. Signed Harworth 1/5000 Swallow Wood for David Snodin planner. Signed Agreement with Bob Draper for BP specifications for milling out Bothamsall oil wells. Discuss Bob Draper borehole info and 1/10000 plan. Also re Harworth Barnsley Abandonment plans not signed. Also re O.S. sheet editions in metric. WEB Barlow re signatures … to get same! Discuss John Dixon planner re Clipstone 1/5000 and 1/2500 and electricity pylons missing! … checking through O.S. plans … no joy! Phone Mick Barber and Assistant at Shirebrook re water problem and info re Teversal and Silverhill water. Phone Wendy Wain Zenith re laser orders and further equipment for repair. To Hucknall … assisting Tony Barnes and Gary Blacknell to empty drawers and scrapping old plans etc.  Discuss Leigh Warhurst re Gyro observations and results … different to North Notts. system in the past. Discuss Brian ? re plan work.
Dilwyn Richards Principal HMI retired and Ken L Twist succeeded.

Thurs 2 … Office … sorting out Silverhill Low Main Abandonment plans photos and 1/2500, 1/5000 and 1/10000 reproductions … still some more to do!  Info to WEB Barlow. To Shirebrook Central Area … discuss Mick Barber Surveyor re Teversal water … possibility of it arriving Nov 1986 at 1 to 2 gals / min and in Jan 1987 at app 5 pm in Pleasley Deep Hard pit bottom. Discuss Silverhill Deep Hard connection to Shirebrook for safety route. Surveyors examined old Dunsil and Waterloo up to Nov 1983 … no water at that date. Pleasley closed Dec 1984.  Office … discuss Tony Barnes re water problem re plan etc. Discuss CJ Whyte re same.  Phone Roger Andrew Coleorton re Oxcroft … had to explain everything regarding water problem … obviously no-one had passed my previous message on!  No reply!  Phone Ian Shaw Thoresby … notice re photos of Top Hard Abandonment plans (38) … contact WEB Barlow … query … Conjure Alders borehole for methane, now disused … steel lined … to cement fill.  Top Hard to be stopped off at Whitsuntide. Discuss WEB Barlow to see Bob Draper re the fill.

Fri 3 … To Thoresby to pick up optical plummet for overhaul … discuss various with Ian Shaw.  Phone Debbie.  To Ollerton … discuss various Garry Hall and update of workings.  Office … Reading through Water Reports and drafting out reports for collieries in North Derbyshire.  General discussion Tony Barnes re plan for same. Discuss WEB Barlow various.  Phone Stas Watson Sherwood re Sherwood / Mansfield connection … stood at 4m away from thirl. Phone John Grayson Mansfield re same and position re other seams developing but not coaling, Main Bright and Deep Soft. John Dixon planner re boundary for Sherwood and Mansfield re request by Philip Wood Manager at Sherwood … to amend Demarcation plan to show 37m line round old workings. To see M Goldsby DCME re Rufford 208s SM1 form … will not sign because of statement…’Extent of water not known’ … change to … ‘Extent of nuisance water which may be in localised swilleys in the Low Main seam is not known’. Also he was not satisfied re Annesley SM1 form for borehole … To Rufford to take SM1 form for 208s Yard / Blackshale back … discuss same with Andy Wells and David Archer.

Mon 6 … Office … phone Andy Wells re SM1 form finished. Phone Carl Banton Sherwood re Sherwood / Mansfield connection thirled on Saturday 4 April. WEB Barlow re connection letter and plan. Finished plan for same and letter amended for Director to sign. Phone Bill Fox Creswell for Creswell / Langwith water figures. Phone HMI office at Potter Street Worksop. Phone Keith Jenkins Thoresby. With Tony Barnes … listed all discharge licenses etc and finished Water chart … plotted out all pits and scheme for water. Report on 1/25000 plan … Debbie.  To Thoresby … to collect R & FF plans … to Rufford … to collect SM1 form for 208s Yard / Blackshale. Updated second copy Working plans.  Discuss SM1 form for Loco Road.  Discuss John Dixon planner … to Rescue Station to exchange R & FF plans for Bentinck, Thoresby and Sutton.

Tues 7 … Office … Water reports continued for old collieries.  Discuss CJ Whyte.  Sorted out plans in the safe with Debbie … to Thoresby … updated second copy plans.  Rating info (1). 1/25000 sheet from computer … numbered … to Rescue Station exchanged Ollerton R & FF plans.

Wed 8 … Office … continued with water reports … Teversal / Pleasley … discuss John Dixon re various and Junction plans. Discuss and signed Mansfield High Hazel 1/5000 for WEB Barlow. Phone Rufford, Sherwood, Thoresby, Clipstone and Mansfield re Junction plans of a typical Airgate and Loader gate for BC Wright Production Manager.  Phone Norman Preater Welbeck, Steve Barnes Bevercotes and Ian Shaw Thoresby re new co-ordinates received from BP for Bothamsall oil wells … already milled out No15.  Phone Bob Draper same. Phone Wendy Wain re order numbers for dial etc … to Clipstone … phone round … to Sutton … updated second copy plans. Discuss Peter Robinson.  Interview Keith Banton 3rd Year Apprentice … poor. Copy for same. Rating info to Mike Parker (2) … to Silverhill … updated second copy Working plans.  Discuss John Nightingale. Discuss Malcolm R Bottomley HMI re various and Abandonment plans. Rating info to Graham Parker (3) … to Rufford … Group manager’s Meeting 3pm BC Wright.  Rating info (4). Discuss Andy Wells. Discuss John Higginbotham manager.  Collected Junction plans.

Thurs 9 … Office … to see Welbeck Tipping Application project in Conference Room A ... Graeme Marshall and Ian Burns.  Sorting out plans in safe. Received Junction plans for Sherwood, Rufford, Thoresby.  Phone Nigel Ward re possible orders for stations, to send him addresses of collieries. Sorting out Rating forms to send out to collieries. To Registry re Severn / Trent answer for Rufford No1 shaft o.k. to fill.  Phone Mike Parker Sutton re 32s Piper to send plans … to Harworth … updated second copy plans … info re rating to Chris Shail (5).  Interviewed Mark Wright 2nd year Apprentice … very good.

Fri 10 … Office … updated Sutton Piper 32s.  Phone Mike Parker and Peter Robinson Sutton. Sorting out plans … to Bevercotes … updated second copy plans. Discuss Steve Barnes and rating (7).  Discuss Ian Daykin re interview.  Discuss Graham Hall various … to Blidworth … updated second copy Working plans. Discuss Philip James re rating (8).  Discuss Ian Orgill.  Interviewed Richard Longden 3rd Year Apprentice … very good.

Mon 13 …Office … Discuss CJ Whyte re Apprentices training … outlined Ollerton system … ½ down pit ½ in office. CJW, EW Fretwell, G Marshall re system for Working Rights.  WEBB on holiday. … to check Bevercotes Top Hard 5s, 7s and 7sA. Phone Bill Fox for pumping figures … no again! Phone Brian Chapman Bolsover re various and check on P4 panel approach possibility to Whitwell tunnel. Phone Philip James re underground water at Blidworth. David Snodin re Bevercotes 5s, 7s and 7sA check sheet.  Sorted out plans. Phone Coleorton … everyone out so left message, Made out list of collieries and telephone numbers for Nigel Ward Rep for Holtwood. P & S re order for HP65 for Rufford. Phone Hewlett Packard re HP65 returned last week … according to them it works o.k.  Phone John Walls re underground water at Welbeck. To Wellow. for check then to Ollerton … updated second copy Working plans. Discuss Philip Shaw and Doug Stockham, also Colin Stocks Deputy Manager.  Office … CJ Whyte re M Goldsby … (1) boundary change for Clipstone Yard seam 200s with Central Area,   (2) Boundaries in all seams (3) Demarcation plan for Sherwood / Mansfield Deep Hard / Piper.  Discuss Roy Stubbs Area Planner re Clipstone 200s then Martin Bradder planner same. Discuss Roy Stubbs re all boundaries in all seams … he would arrange a meeting with Brian Pether Area Planner Central Area for 3rd week in May.  Arrows put on Water plans.  To see Jim Hewitson Area Industrial Relations Officer re Survey Assistant at Creswell … o.k.  Discuss M Goldsby DCME re Demarcation plan for Sherwood / Mansfield .. sent by Director 7/4/1987 and by me to Colliery Managers. Discuss Tony Barnes various.

Tues 14 … to Rescue Station … to exchange Harworth plans … to Sherwood … updated second copy Working plans collected. Discuss Stas Watson and Carl Banton re rating (9).  Office … Sorting out possible changes in boundary between Notts and Cental Areas for Clipstone Yard 200s.  Drew out 1/10560 plan of same. Discuss same with John Dixon planner. Phone Shirebrook Surveyor … not in.  Phone Bill Fox Creswell re water pumping figures … estimates again! Phone Roger Andrews Coleorton re Oxcroft … pump broken down for 4th week!  Tried to contact Carl King Ops Engr.  Phone Geoff Austin Bilsthorpe re various. Phone Philip Shaw Ollerton … 3rd drift thirled o.k.  Water plan check and reports. Sorting out plans. Discuss Tony Barnes re Apprentices interviews … to Clipstone … updated second copy Working plans … discuss 200s Yard seam extension with John A Daniels Manager. Discuss calculations re same with Hadi Al Rekabi Discuss Tony Wright rating figures (10).  Phone Tony Barnes re coal figures … to Mansfield … updated second copy Working plans.  Discuss John Grayson re rating (11) and Parishes worked in … completed same. Discuss various and Sherwood connection within 10” (0.28m). To Rescue Station to exchange Mansfield and Clipstone R & FF plans.

Wed 15 … Office … P & S forms.  HP65 received back … discuss Tony Barnes. Phone Ian Wilson Thoresby re rating figures. Discuss CJ Whyte re Water plan and info. Phone Deputy Surveyor at Shirebrook re water to tell Mick Barber. Copies of letter from Severn / Trent WA re Rufford No1 shaft to M Goldsby, RAC etc … o.k.  Phone Bill Fox Creswell re plans … not done! Also re rating figures and tonnages (12).  Phone Philip Shaw Ollerton re rating figures and tonnages (13).  Sent Apprentice report to Richard Longden and Martin Wright. To Registry, various. Query CJ Whyte re Deputy National Chief Surveyor Albert Sturgess … we have plenty of R & FF stencils and Electrical symbol stencils for next 5 years.  Discuss Glen Chappell photographer re Silverhill Low main Abandonment plans again for the umpteenth time since Oct 1986, now 6 months! Discuss Tony Barnes.  To Welbeck updated second copy Working plans. John Walls re rating info (14) and Apprentice.  Discuss also John Hind various.  To Rescue Station to exchange Newstead R & FF plans.
Ratings finished to date … Bilsthorpe (1), Thoresby (2), Mansfield (3).

Tues 16 … to Creswell … Pumping plans for Top Hard and Threequarter. Discuss Billy Ellison and Peter Williams.  Office ... re-writing paragraph for Water reports and Tony barnes. Discuss same CJ Whyte. Discuss Peter Davies Area Mech dept re water problems re clocks for figures etc at Creswell, Langwith and Oxcroft – advised to speak to Kevin Shaw Mechanical Engineer. Phone Billy Ellison re same to see Mech and Elec Engineers. Phone Mike Parker Sutton re rating figures. Message from M Goldsby DCME re boundary plans to go today … discuss same Roy Stubbs and John Dixon … may be a change. Phone Roger Andrew Coleorton re boundary change plan for Clipstone 200s Yard seam between Notts. and Central Areas … to expect the plan at Coleorton when the Director has signed it. Wrote a memo and had it typed.  Saw Roy Stubbs again … plan for Clipstone 200s Yard boundary change can go … took to Director’s office. Ratings finished at Sutton (4)        

Fri 17 … Acting Area Surveyor till Tues … Office … CJ Whyte and M Goldsby on holiday. Phone Mick Barber at Shirebrook re update of water … still same.  Made out Rating sheets for all collieries. Collating info for rating. Phoning round the pits. Party next door …. Leaving.  M Goldsby DCME boundary exchange plan for Clipstone Yard 200s re Central Area is in the post. A copy is on Chief Mining Engineer RA Caunt’s desk. Plan sent to Mike Gallagher Mineral Valuer re Langwith Pumping station.  To Ollerton … scalings for ratings for Parishes. Office … Discuss Bob Draper and Eric Fretwell and later with Tony Barnes.  Sorted plans out. To Registry at the Forest. Tidied office, desk etc.
Ratings finished for Sherwood (5) and Ollerton (6)  

Mon 20 … Easter Monday … Statutory holiday                                                             

Tues 21 … Statutory holiday

Wed 22 … General.  Discuss WEB Barlow various.  To Ollerton to take slide material etc for GJD Hall.  Discuss Michel Sheldon Apprentice.  To Creswell …. Updated second copy Working plans.  Also scaling figures, Water figures from Bill Fox and discussed the pumping. Discuss Ted Giles Acting Manager (ex Ollerton Tech Asst) re same and to speak to Engineers re Oxcroft situation … pump broken down.  Office … discuss WEB Barlow re photos. Letter and 212 notice typed by Joanne for Harworth Swallow Wood seam opening.  Phone John Walls Welbeck … no ratings!  Phoned Steve Barnes Bevercotes re rating figures.  Phone David Archer Rufford re re proposed fill info for No1 shaft … winder not in use … Warsop colliery had borrowed parts.  Phone Don Brown Civil Engineer re shaft fill proposals … shale now instead of hardcore.  Phone David Archer re info for meeting.  Phone Brian Chapman Coleorton … no figures for Oxcroft … Roger Andrew on holiday … no message left.  Phone Andy Rowland Deputy Surveyor Bolsover re Oxcroft … pump broken down … message that Manager has asked Area Surveyor for report on whether to keep on pumping or not. Phone John Nightingale Silverhill re only part ratings!

Thurs 23 … Office … Rating figures etc.  Roy Stubbs re surface plans of Woodhouse on 1/10560 and 1/1000 also re negatives of boundaries … not in office!  Discuss re Creswell / Oxcroft water!  Letter typed by Joanne for Harworth Manager . Phone Viv and John Nightingale Silverhill finished ratings.  Phone David Archer Rufford re No1 shaft. Phone Bill Fox re ordering books from Zenith. Phone John Hind and John Walls Welbeck re ratings … not finished yet … last one to send in as usual!  Phone Andrew Hutchins re ordering books … to arrange for Wendy Wain Zenith to call.  Phone Wendy Wain Ossett re books o.k.  Phone David Archer re query from HMI S Wing re CO-AL plant.  Discuss Tony Barnes re possible work outstanding.  To see Peter Davies Mech, Don Brown Civils, Bernard Fawthrop re CO-AL plant at Rufford ?… not sure! To Calverton … discuss Dick Bramley and Mick Clayton (Eric Pendleton on holiday) … update on computer graphics … cut off of electricity on electrical layout.  New schematic and Layout plans.  Update with print outs for shaft records for South Notts … several anomalies.

Fri 24 Apr to Fri 15 May … Annual leave … New Groups formed

May 1987

Sat 14 ... Bought a 1985 Mazda 626, Silver

Mon 18 … Office … general catch up. Correspondence etc.  Update with Tony Barnes.  Discuss CJ Whyte. Phone Neil Baker Coleorton re Clipstone 200s Yard seam boundary extension … o.k.  Phone … Stas Watson Sherwood. Dave Archer Rufford.  Peter Thompson Harworth.  Philip Shaw Ollerton.  John Nightingale Silverhill.  Steve Barnes Bevercotes.  To P & S dept re ‘lost papers’ for Creswell laser.  To Ollerton to take 1941 correlation file and discuss.  Phone Peter Clayton re laser at Laboratory … for Silverhill.  Office … general.  To Bevercotes … discuss Graham Hall and Steve Barnes various also re Kents Thick 1/5000 Layout plan.

Tues 19 … Office … continued filing.  Discuss Jack Hurton planner re Clipstone 200s Yard boundary change … o.k. re  Production Manager BC Wright query. Phone Bob Draper re boreholes … queried plotting to date of all holes … he says will be done.  Signed Rufford Layout change for Martin Bradder. Sorting out Mansfield demarcation plan with Debbie. Phone Hewlett Packard re HP65 … to send back.  To Hucknall with Tony Barnes … sorting out.  To Bestwood to transport old plans.  To Rufford … to take and exchange HP65 calculator and discuss David Archer and Bernie.  Office … general catch up.

Wed 20 … Office … discuss Roy Stubbs Area Planning Engineer re proposed meeting with Central Area re boundaries.  Discuss CJ Whyte various and Water meeting result.  Checking Working Rights and Notices for Bevercotes Kent Thick seam development. Phone Graham Walters Linby. Phone Philip Shaw Ollerton re Dunnose conversion … why don’t they sort it? I had to. To Planning dept … discuss David Snodin.  Phone David Archer Rufford re battery.  Discuss boundary changes with DPT Paul Townsend (son of Arthur Townsend Manager. He would become Undermanager at Thoresby). To Clipstone … with Paul Townsend DPT … discuss Tony Wright and 2 Surveyors from Warsop ?  To Thoresby with Paul Townsend DPT … discuss various with Ian Shaw and old note books, correlations, plans etc also possible connection from Thoresby Parkgate 112s RHG to Ollerton 3rd drift either by 1in1 drift or borehole.

Thurs 21 … Office … sorting out boundaries and listing same from File No1 onwards.  Discuss Paul Townsend DPT various.  M Goldsby DCME re Rufford SM1 … now o.k.  Discuss CJ Whyte and Bob Draper re possibly filling Thoresby Conjure Alders borehole with pebbles and non-oil well cement … to see M Goldsby re same. CJ Whyte says to go with Bob Draper for inter change of jobs and info !!! To Creswell … with Paul Townsend DPT … updated 1/10000 plans of Whitwell with Bill Fox and discuss various.  Phone David Archer Rufford re battery for AGA 220. Phone Tony Barnes re same.  To Rescue Station to take and exchange Parkgate R & FF update.  Discuss Superintendent Peter ?  To Mansfielld …. To get a plan of surface with update of buildings … discuss John Grayson.  Office … continued with boundaries file and completed cataloguing.  Received Clipstone Yard 200s boundary exchange from Coleorton.

Fri 22 … Office … Letters for Clipstone boundary alteration.  Listing all boundary alterations from Mining Registry at the Forest … borrowed file as per others when needed … no problem, just fetch your own.  Phone Philip Shaw Ollerton re possible connection to Thoresby.  Discuss Ted Bucklow Deputy Area Ventilation Engineer retiring today.  Phone Stas Watson re survey into Mansfield Connect,. Discuss eneral.  Phone Phil Garner Subsidence dept. Phone John Grayson Mansfield re subsidence for 202s Deep Hard / Piper … 60mm, also discuss survey into Sherwood through connection.  To Ollerton … various … Dunnose conversion sheets and look at 3rd drift section re possible connection from Thoresby from 112s Parkgate.  To Bilsthorpe … general discussion Geoff Austin and Graham Kemp re various and update of information.  Office … letters and discuss Tony Barnes.
Party for Ted Bucklow’s retirement. (Deputy Area Ventilation Engineer)

Mon 25 … Bank holiday.

Tues  26 … Sent letter from M Goldsby DCME to Ron Goosens Chief Geologist re Conjure Alders borehole at Thoresby Top Hard re non-use of API oil well cement for filling. To Registry at Forest. Discuss Shirley. Phone Wendy Wain and Tim at Zenith re instruments and prices.  Discuss Peter Harrison Planning Projects re plan for Water report.  Discuss Ian Burns Environment re Ollerton Lagoon and proposed 31s.  Phone Janet Tracer at Bevercotes. Jane Arnold came. Distributed plans for Clipstone boundary exchange.  Creswell / Langwith water returns.  Discuss WEB Barlow and Bob Draper various and update.  Phone Philip Shaw Ollerton re survey required for Lagoon No9. Phone John Potts Deputy Surveyor Cotgrave re optical plummet, adjusting same. Phone John Stapleton Cotgrave … to pick up opticals and to P&S dept with order form. Duplicating.  To Bevercotes … discuss Graham Hall and Steve Barnes … to take SM1 form with remarks from JCH Longden DD and discuss … may not bore the hole now!

Wed 27 … Office … Looking through plans for boundaries … in a drawer.  Correspondence.  Discuss WEB Barlow and David Clarke Mining Records Eastwood Hall re photographs of Abandoned plans … to start bringing in plans from pits next week. Phoning round pits re same.  New list of Survey personnel.  To P&S dept with completed forms (4).  Discuss WEB Barlow re photos from collieries … arranged for next week.  Phone John Nightingale Silverhill re EM1234 plans … not done yet. Also various re photos and Contractors work.  Phone Brian Stevenson Bentinck re Risk Assessment plans and various … I outlined the procedure.  Phone Ron Swift Bentinck re 1/10000 plans.  Duplicating.  To Bentinck to take SM1 form for 66s Water Lodge and 1/10000 plans with boreholes … discuss various and Bentinck / Annesley merger.

Thurs 28 … Office … Sorting through drawers … found North Derbys plans of boundaries!  Going through files updating same.  Discuss WEB Barlow re cut off of electricity re Merthyr explosion … letter from Albert Sturgess … no action. Explained Bentinck plan and others.  Phone re addresses for pits … various departments.  Sent copy of Clipstone Yard 200s boundary change to John Raine Area Geologist.  To Rufford … to take SM1 forms for 208s and 11s, also to exchange HP65 back from repair. Collected AGA 220 battery for repair.  Phoned Geotronics £50.  Discuss WEB Barlow.  Phone Mr Charsley BGS re visit to Cotgrave … to arrange. Continued updating boundary plans in all seams … with co-ordinates.  M Goldsby DCME acting Production Manager re Sutton 54s Piper SM1 … needs further depth in method of work in dewatering / degassing.  To Safety dept … left message and saw Don Simmons re same.  To see new Printing machine with Andrew Hutchins … spare paper for Rufford, Thoresby and Blidworth.

Fri 29 … Office … completed plotting boundaries from records on 1/10560 prints for Notts. / Central Areas.  Phone Cotgrave re BGS visit … o.k. for Wed.  Phoned Mr Charsley BGS re confirmation of visit to Cotgrave. Phone Trevor Speed Blidworth re laser notice. To Sign shop to collect laser notices.  Phone George Simms Annesley re problem at No2 shaft with gas from old inset … do we know any more information? George Simms has examined old books etc and contacted Eastwood Hall Mining Records and Linby.  Phoned BGS on behalf of George Simms for them to check if they have anything.  Discuss WEB Barlow re photography of pits Working plans … probably to start next week!  Discuss Wendy Wain Zenith … she collected Optical plummet and tribrach for repair re Cotgrave.  Made out Examiner’s book for Surveyor’s examination.  To Ollerton … prints etc and discuss Philip Shaw re electrical cut off plan and R & FF plans. To Blidworth to take laser notices. To Rescue Station to exchange Ollerton R & FF plans. Office … continued sorting.

June 1987

Mon 1 … Office … Final check over old boundaries on 1/10560 plans for Notts / Central Areas.  Discuss WEB Barlow various.  Colliery addresses sent to Nigel Ward.  Phone Bill Fox Creswell re pumping figures. Filled Tony in with last weeks work whilst he was on holiday.  Phone John Grayson Mansfield re High Hazels finished working on 29 / 5 /1987. To send 212 notice to HMI on 1/8/1987.  Phone John Walls Welbeck re tackle for shaft measuring and auto-plumb etc.  Phone David Archer Rufford re same.  Phone John Grayson Mansfield re photographing plans plus to locate and borrow stippling machine. Check on boundaries. Phone Tony Wright Clipstone re borrow stippling machine and check on boundaries. Phone Stas Watson Sherwood re boundaries and to collect dial for repair.  To P&S dept for paper work.  Phone Dick Bramley Calverton.  Discuss WEB Barlow re staff.  Also CJ Whyte re Rob Quincey.  To see Mike Pope Deputy Area Staff Manager and Keith Froggatt re appointing Dick Bramley Temporary Surveyor at Calverton (Eric Pendleton had retired).  Phone Mr Charsley BGS re look for info for Annesley shaft and Top Hard heading out at sinking.  To Sherwood … to collect dial for repair.  Discuss and examining all records of inter –m Area boundaries in all seams (11).  CJ Whyte came … PW Wood Manager had gone to Area HQ … followed on.  Office … took dial to P & S. to Registry re old files for 212 notices and to fetch from Repository.

Tues 2 … Office … Listing all 212 notices beginning and ending of certain mining operations.  Going through old files in Registry … sent for more from Repository.  M Goldsby DCME re Creswell Top Hard pit bottom SM1 form … will not sign … needs further method of work. To Safety dept re same and discuss with Dennis Roebuck.  Phoned Bill Fox Creswell re same.  Discuss Graeme Marshall re staff.  To Bilsthorpe to take plan and discuss with Geoff Austin, Graham Kemp and Denise Tindale various. Plans ready for photographing. Prints.

Wed 3 … Office … Drafting out letter for Bevercotes Parkgate discontinuance.  Phone CJ Whyte re staff. Mark Wright to go to Harworth temporary.  Phone Peter Robinson Sutton re Keith Banton … no!  Phone Ian Orgill Blidworth re Richard Longen to go to Creswell temporary for 3 weeks. Phone Bill Fox Creswell re SM1 for Top Hard pit bottom … to ring later.  Andy Vjestica  planner re Thoresby SW Layout in Parkgate seam. To Thoresby to collect ozaloft.  Discuss Ian Shaw re SM1 and SW Layout.  To Clipstone … to take ozaloft. Went through all Clipstone boundary plans with Tony Wright and Hadi Al Rekabi and discuss.  Discuss John Cranham re borehole being 79m from plumb … what warning line?  To Mansfield … checking over new Surface Demarcation plan with John Grayson … several queries. Also discuss various with John Grayson and Keith Briggs and Jack Hurton Senior planner.  Office … discuss Debbie Mansfield Demarcation plan. Discuss Graeme Marshall re same and differences to Tip plan … discuss CJ Whyte, WEB Barlow and Tony Barnes.

Thurs 4 … Office … Discuss Bob Draper re O.S. plans.  List completed for all 212 notices to date on forms as per South Notts system.  Phone Bill Fox Creswell re progress of the Top Hard pit bottom SM1 … possibly tomorrow!  Discuss CJ Whyte report on Water.  To Sherwood … copies of boundaries held between Sherwood and North Derbys in all seams where not known before .. discuss Herbert Shaw.  To Creswell to take SM1 back for amending.  Copies of boundaries held between Creswell and North Derbys.  Office … general correspondence.

Fri 5 … Office … Registry files … old shafts etc, reading through documents. Letters and 212 notice via Gina for Bevercotes Parkgate discontinuance. Signed Bevercotes Top Hard 1/5000 Layout plan for David Snodin.  Discuss Graeme Marshall re differences on Mansfield Demarcation plan.  Setting out SM1 form check list with Debbie.  To Silverhill … checking all boundary plans between Silverhill and North Derbys … discuss John Nightingale.  Phone Sherwood and Clipstone re 1/10560 plans.  To Clipstone … called to collect 1/10560 plans.  Office … Phone Martin Sly Civil Engr Tips re volume and input of No9 Lagoon at Ollerton.  Phone Philip Shaw Ollerton re same … ‘gone in the book’.  Phone Geoff Austin Bilsthorpe re Apprentice Mark Wright to go to Harworth for 3 weeks.  Checking over Mansfield Demarcation plan with Debbie.  Phone Graham Kemp Bilsthorpe re Scribing machine for plan referecing.  Discuss Wendy Wain Zenith re tackle etc. She took Sherwood dial for repair and brought back Area tribrach.  Discuss Tony Barnes SM1s, also re proposed referencing system for photo copy plans in safe and co-ordinates for all shafts.  Phone Steve Richardson planner re Clipstone 1/5000 Layout for Deep Soft … he had taken over from Martin Bradder.

Mon 8 … Office … 1/5000 Layout plan for Sherwood Yard seam … checking.  Phone Tony Wright Clipstone re 1/5000 Deep Soft Layout plan … o.k. Discuss Steve Richardson planner re Clipstone Deep Soft plan and I signed it.  Tabulated all Parish notices for Notts in Group book re JR Greasley left … found 2 more Parishes ! Discuss and pointed out same to WEB Barlow, Deputy Area Surveyor.  Phone Paul Wilkinson Silverhill re R & FF plans … when sent? Andy Wells Rufford re R & FF, took one to Rescue Station.  To Sherwood with CJ Whyte to see Stas Watson Deputy Surveyor re Rob Quincey from Newstead to start as Surveyor for Sherwood next Monday. Lunch.  To Harworth … boundaries between South Yorks, Doncaster Area and Notts … various old plans.  Discuss Peter Thompson and plotted co-ordinates on 1/10560 print.  Phone Tony Barnes re tomorrow at Hucknall. Phone Debbie re same. Bevercotes 212 notice for Parkgate finishing to M Goldsby DCME.

Tues 9 … To Hucknall with Tony Barnes and Gary Blacknell clearing out. Cleaning tackle and labelling same for inventory.  To Sutton to take instruments and tackle to Store room with Gary Blacknell … discuss Mike Parker, Keith Banton and Ian Gill Geologist.  To Hucknall again and loaded up with instruments for Area HQ store.  To Rufford … to take Geodimeter 220 battery (small).  Phone Garry Hall Ollerton re Lagoon 9 … 1350 cu m per week input will last 75 weeks.  Discuss Andy Wells re High Hazles plans etc … water? And Code of Practice.   Office … correspondence. Discuss WEB Barlow re Code. Put survey equipment in Store room. Saw Brenda re my apologies at Group Manager’s meeting tomorrow.

Wed 10 … Holiday

Thurs 11 … Office … phone Martin Sly Civils re Ollerton Lagoon No9 is 1350 cu m / week to give life of 75 weeks. Discuss Andy Vjestica planner re me not signing Sherwood Layout plan for Blackshale.  Debbie re continue 1/10000 borehole negative.  Phone Mike Parker Sutton re SM1 form.  Phone Stas Watson Sherwood re Layout plan for Blackshale … print of same.  To Sherwood re Layout plan for Blackshale and Yard seams with Stas Watson. Discuss Carl Banton various.  Office …I signed Sherwood Layout plan. CJ Whyte re same. Discussed again Layout plans with Andy Vjestica … to bring a print in future … not the negative.  Spoke to Roy Stubbs again re fix up a meeting with Central Area re boundaries.  To Bevercotes … checked over Kents Thick Layout plan with Graham Hall and Steve Barnes and discuss various. Picked up old printing machine … scrap.Used it at home.

Fri 12 … Office … HP65 records.  Discuss Graeme Marshall. Martin Bradder re Mansfield Main Bright Layout negative … sent for print so I could investigate and check. Told Andy Vjestica about prints but message not passed on. Corrick in Subsidence dept re Thoresby Parkgate SW report. Phone John Raine Area Geologist re plan for latitude and longitude conversions to NMG. Going through files for signing of mine plans. Phone Dr Paul Rathbone BGS several times re info for Annesley Top Hard … to send info. Phone Bill Fox Creswell re 33s boreholes to 31s … water found at 800m. Phone Terry Williams Senior Surveyor Coleorton re Abstraction Consent figures and the STWA bill. Phoned back … belong to Harworth, Ollerton and Creswell … £87,000.  Phone Andy Wells Rufford re shaft measuring at No1 shaft as per Area Instruction. Phone Graham Kemp Bilsthorpe.  Phone Mike Parker and Keith Banton Sutton re MQB Surveyors examination.  Phone Ian Shaw Thoresby re Top Hard plans ready for my inspection.  To Bilsthorpe … discuss Graham Kemp re labels for Area plan cabinets.  Discuss Graham Millward re Sharp calculators re program for conversion of latitude and longitude to NMG co-ordinates.

Mon 15 … Office … Phone Bill Fox Creswell … water pumping figures etc.  Discuss Martin Bradder planner re boundary for Mansfield Main Bright to Shirebrook.  Phone David Snodin planner re Bevercotes Kents Thick plan. To P&S dept.  To Welbeck … discuss Norman Preater and going through boundaries file and extracting co-ordinates for Top Hard and Parkgate.  To Geological dept at Forest.  Discuss John Raine Area Geologist re plan with latitudes and longitudes from satellite for grid conversion on 1/100,000 plan. Also discuss re co-ordinates near Cotgrave.  To Thoresby to take example of Abandonment Report for Ian Shaw.  Discuss Ian Wilson and Lee Cammack re various and grid conversion.  Office … put grid on 1/100,000 geological plan (from Severn Trent WA plan).  Print off 1/50,000 with areas of boreholes … both for John Raine. Phoned him to advise.

Tues 16 … Office … Debbie re borehole plans 1/10, 000 still continuing. Sitting in as an observer … Interview 3 for Apprentice Surveyor ... Chairman Michael Mottram, CJ Whyte and WEB Barlow. Compiling back information re opening and closing seams at collieries not on 212 notices … for Area folder. Phone John Grayson Mansfield re Main Bright Layout plan.  Phone Tony Wright Clipstone re same.  Phone Ian Shaw Thoresby re SW Parkgate Layout plan. To Registry … files.  To Clipstone with Mansfield Main Bright seam Layout plan and check for Low Main workings re interaction etc … discuss Tony Wright and Hadi Al Rekabi same and Gyro required.  To Mansfield with Main Bright Layout plan … checking over with John Grayson.

Wed 17 … Office … General, correspondence. Sitting in as an observer again for Apprentice Surveyors interviews x 3.  To Thoresby … going through Abandonment plan report and 38 Top Hard sectional plans with Ian Shaw.  Discuss all re Apprentice Surveyor interview and my check list for staff.  Lunch.  Continued.  Made out a list of things for Ian Shaw to follow up.  To Sherwood … discuss Rob Quincey re various tackle.  Also re overlays and info missing from Working plans.

Thurs 18 … Office … continued and finished compiling together onfo re Area boundaries. Phone George Simms Annesley re letter from Dr Paul Rathbone BGS re information off field slips re gas problem in the shaft. Letter to make or help make plans for subsidence claims tribunals re John S Wilson.  Discuss Ian Burns Environment.  Discuss Ian W Smith re Estates dept. Phone Dick Bramley Calverton re Apprentices.  To Grassmoor Out station of Central Area.  With Roy Stubbs Area Planner and Russ Worsey planner and met Brian Pether Deputy Area Planning Engineer re Notts / Central Area boundaries in all seams. Discussion, agreed to make new ozaloft negatives for 6 seams … (High Hazles, Main Bright), Deep Soft, Deep Hard / Piper, Yard, Low Main and Blackshale.

Fri 19 … Office … Sorting through colliery boundaries files in file trays.  Discuss Eric Fretwell Subsidence dept re Mining reports and mining histories. Phoned Clipstone … Hadi Al Rekabi re John Cranham to come to HQ for next 2 weeks. Phoned Tony Wright re same. CJ Whyte re  ‘new ideas’ for Surveyor’s Practical examination.  Phone Peter Robinson Sutton re visit.  To Sutton … Sharp calculator and use of with Mike Parker. Also re water problem in shaft (Mary Ann well ?) to look for Top Hard 1/2500.  To instrument store, sorting out equipment for Bevercotes.  To Bevercotes to take 1 set of Wild legs, 1 Watts dial legs, 1 used Jees staff and 3 plumbbobs … spares ex Hucknall plus 2 telephone books for Area HQ.  Discuss Graham Hall and Steve Barnes.  Office … discuss WEB Barlow re Thoresby Top Hard plans … deficiencies etc. Also re various notices etc.  Discuss Tony Barnes re ‘new ideas’ for Surveyor’s Practical exam.

Mon 22 … Office … Plans … grid numbers on 1/10560 master.  Phone Graham Millward Bilsthorpe re program for Latitudes and Longitudes … different!  Discuss WEB Barlow re Thoresby Top Hard plans. Phone Ian Shaw re same … putting levels on the Loco Roads.  Discuss Bob Draper re Silverhill Low Main plans.  Phone Paul Wilkinson Silverhill re EM Nos … not done yet!  Phone Peter Thompson Harworth re photos of plans. WEB Barlow re same. To talk to Harry Parratt again … Sue, phographic dept on other jobs. Phone Bill Fox re no pumping figures again! Also re watrer in 33s LHG from old 31s LG … to drive a snicket to dewater … HMI Malcolm Bottomley there.  Discuss Terry Anderson Area Mech Engr with CJ Whyte re possibility of shaft surveys with Ferranti Gyro etc as per Silverhill trial … (on secret list!). Discuss Carl King Deputy Elec Engr re same. Meeting fixed for 7 July at 10am.  To Creswell … discuss Bill Fox and Richard Longden SM1 brought back for Top Hard pit bottom.
Brian C Wright promoted from Production manager to DCME (Mining).  David S Crisp promoted to Production Manager from Manager Cotgrave.  Brian R Turner promoted to Production Manager from Manager Blidworth.

Tues 23 … Office … Phone Bill Fox re Creswell / Langwith pumping figures … meter out of use for 3 weeks now.  Phone Tracer at Central Area re Oxcroft figures … no return answer!  To Planning dept.  Surface with WEB Barlow … to Budby hamlet … checking all buildings of Architectural and Historic interest. Office … Checking up on SM1 form for Creswell. CJ Whyte re Mansfield 208s Deep Hard Piper panel *** set out in wrong place … also 206s different also *** …. 3 sets of different plans … not one signed … re M Goldsby.  AR Barnes memo re ‘Round Robin’ from M Godsby DCME … not to set out anything without a signed plan. Phone John Raine re BGS (Annesley) not to pay.  Phone Central Area again!  M Goldsby re Creswell 33s / 31s snicket … Method of work … would not sign (1/2 hour). Phoned Bill Fox re same. Discuss George Harper Kern … plus a colleague from Switzerland re instruments etc and sale of same for exchange new ones.

Wed 24 … To Mansfield and to take Progress folder. Discuss John Grayson, Keith Briggs and Jack Hurton planner re several plans circulating for Deep Hard / Piper Layout … not signed.  206s single entry starting from gate and 208s different line … suggested should send small plan of area in future to Area Surveyor & Minerals Manager and Area Planning Engineer etc showing differences and signed by Manager and Surveyor.  Office … Discuss CJ Whyte and WEB Barlow re sell instruments that are obsolete. Phone Bill Fox Creswell re SM1 for 33s / 31s … M Goldsby sent it back to the colliery with Lou Mousdale Safety dept. Discuss Graeme Marshall.  Phoned all 21 pits re shaft centre co-ordinates and also re amend to PI 1979 / 2 re updating of Tube bundle air monitoring system within 24 hours.  Also re possibility of shaft surveys by Engineers.  Tabulated results on shaft sections.  Phone Richard Pearson refer George Simms conversation re shaft section at Annesley … look in Notts & Derbys Coalfield book p 119.  Phone Ian Shaw. To Thoresby with prints. Discuss Top Hard plans with Ian Shaw, also signing of mine plans.

Thurs 25 … Office … Discuss and report for Mansfield setting out in wrong place.  CJ Whyte and Jack Hurton planner re plans.  Brian Thompson also re plans issued at Mansfield that were not signed. Reading paper on Silverhill shaft survey by Ferranti (from Terry Anderson Mech).  WEB Barlow re oil bores re Thoresby Deep Soft 1990-1992. 

To Mansfield with CJ Whyte (for report for M Goldsby).  Discuss John Grayson re setting out etc and plans.  Discuss Ken G Fidler Manager o.k. Then CJ Whyte re short list for Calverton Surveyor’s job.

Fri 26 … Office … CJ Whyte re report.  Finished High Hazles / Clowne boundary plan.  Phone Central Area re pits open for Rescue Station neg. Also Neil Baker and Roger Andrew re Oxcroft water figures. Phone Bill Fox Creswell. Sent out to all pits … M & Q Exam dates. Also re Tub Bundle system info.  All 6 boundary ozalofts for Central / Notts. Areas to Planning dept. Chasing up Creswell SM! Form. Phone Hadi Al Rekabi.  To Sutton … to take instrument. Collected 5m surface staff and 3m underground staff and a set of Wild legs.  SM1 for 54s Piper. Also plans for Russ Worsey planner re Contracts.  To Creswell to take tackle.  Discuss Bill Fox, Billy Ellison and Ian Gill, Geologist re ‘Review’… ‘ to do 2 strips a shift or else’!  Discuss water and pumping figures to date.  Office … Mansfield situation ‘dropped’.  Discuss WEB Barlow.  Phone Carl Banton Sherwood …. R & FF plans gone.

Mon 29 …. To University of Nottingham with Hadi Abdul Razak Al Rekabi (Clipstone). Met Leigh Warhurst (Calverton)and John Hind (Welbeck).  Observations with Gyro (with micrometer) on base line in Laboratory.  To Clipstone … discuss Hadi Al Rekabi and Tony Wright. Interviewed Chris Proctor First Year Apprentice.  Phone Debbie various. Office … update.  Changed R & FF plans for Sherwood.  Message …. Creswell DM102 out of line. Phone WEB Barlow re Alan Wilmot Apprentice Silverhill … should he be at Creswell? … No!

Tues 30 … Office …. Info re various. Correspondence.  Roy Stubbs re further meeting with Brian Pether Central Area Planner. Discuss various schoolboy Mark on job experience.  Discuss WEB Barlow re Gyro observations etc.  Phone Mike Parker Sutton re various.  To Bevercotes … discuss Graham Hall.  Interview Karl Mitchell Apprentice.  Discuss Steve Barnes and Ian Daykin interviews.  Office …. General.