A Unique History From My Work Diaries

Surveying Jobs

British Coal Nottinghamshire Area

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Jan 1989

Senior Surveyor 1988 – 1990

Sun 1 …  New Year’s Day

Mon 2 … Holiday

Tues 3 … Office … General sorting.  Phone Ian Shore Mansfield re update. Phone Bill Fox Creswell re water pumping figures to date.  Phone Alan Marlow Central Area re O.S. copies for Creswell.  Phone Andy Wells Rufford re PI forms.  Phoned Bob Butler Hall and Watts re instruments … no reply.  Discuss Graeme Marshall re large diameter borehole planned for Sherwood for ventilation cooling in lower seam.  Discuss Tony Barnes and David James ET.  Discuss David James ET re various.  To Mansfield with ET.  Discuss Ian Shore upgrade and files.

Wed 4 … Office … Checking through old Strategic plans.  Bob Draper re plotting boreholes to date on 1/10000 Borehole plan … not been done!  Phone Garry Hall Ollerton re visit.  Discuss David James ET.  Phone Peter Thompson Harworth re instrument.  Phone Hall & Watts Bob Butler re Order numbers and requested copper bushes for GKO A Level.  Phone John Nightingale Silverhill re train vandalism … British Rail demarcation.  To Harworth … with David James ET.  Picked up GKO A Level.  Discuss various with Peter Thompson, Chris Shail, Eric Woss and Karl Mitchell.  To Thoresby … demonstration of Computer graphics and 3D drafting with Ian Shaw.  Office … Discuss SM1 procedure with CJ Whyte and Tony Barnes.  David Snodin planner re same due to plan not being ready and signed before SM1 sent … re PA Chambers DCME.  Phone Ian Shore Mansfield re to drop off plans of Linby Crane incident for Colin Brakewell Safety Engineer.  To Subsidence dept with David James ET … Clipstone subsidence and my home at Welwyn Avenue, Mansfield Woodhouse … Shirebrook Deep Hard / Piper to undermine in Dec 1991. Phone Richard Longden Clipstone re form finished for MQB.

Thurs 5 … To Mansfield … to take incident plans of Linby for Colin Brakewell Safety Engineer.  To Clipstone … to see Richard Longden re MQB Surveyor’s certificate form ... o.k.   Office … CJ Whyte signed form for Richard Longden.  Phone Martin Sly Civil Engineer re possible pipeline to Clipstone from Mansfield Field well.  Discuss same Ian Burns.  Graeme Marshall re to check up on computer deliveries to collieries. To Clipstone … to take signed form to Richard Longden.  To Mansfield … with Graeme Marshall … examined area required by NFD for extension of stocking ground … on plan supplied by Electrical dept … already their land!  … does not appear to be a problem.  To Rescue Station … to exchange Harworth R & FF plans.  Office … discuss Tony Barnes re Abandonment plans … wanted to know what to do.  Phone Stas Watson Sherwood re progress etc … now reaming out first 5 ft (1.3m) dia borehole 186m deep.  Also re ventilation development.

Fri 6 … Office … sorted out filing system.  PA Chambers DCME re Bevercotes 106s Low Waterloo SM1.  Phone Graham Hall re same.  CJ Whyte re water dangers for PA Chambers.  Discuss same with PA Chambers and left Mine Waters file with him.  Phone Tom Leafe (ex Surveyor at Hucknall for 36 years) re Mining Records Office contact … Dave Clarke at Newstead (used to work for Tom).  Discuss Bob Butler Hall & Watts … he picked up Harworth GKO-A Level.  Phone Keith Jenkins Thoresby re 116s.  Discuss Bob Draper and David James ET re Colliery Companies of the past.  Phone Ian Shaw Thoresby re 116s, Discuss CJ Whyte re same … too far from Ollerton 3rd drift re RA Caunt CME and forms.  Phone Richard Turner Silverhill re Working plan … roads back to pit bottom?  Yes.  Also send some R & FF folders.  Phone Geoff Austin query.  To Bilsthorpe … updated second copy plans.  Discuss Geoff Austin various.  Discuss GE Millward re SM1 forms and 150m to go etc.

Mon 9 … To Mansfield … discuss Ian Shore update.  Query water figures.  John Danbury Elec Engineer re mercury switch floats for measuring shafts?  Office … Meeting Graeme Marshall, AR Barnes, TR Draper, EW Fretwell and self … subsidence section Corrick re Thoresby 116s Parkgate re Ollerton 3rd drift sections etc. for PA Chambers re CJ Whyte,  Phone Eric Fretwell re underground subsidence observations I made at Ollerton 3s Main Top Hard and also surface subsidence for old Top Hard 1s and 2s.  To see Mike Pope Deputy Staff Manager re ‘gas allowance’. Phoned Dick Bramley Calverton BACM rep re same.  To Bevercotes … updated second copy Working plans.  Discuss Steve Barnes various.  Phone CJ Whyte re Clipstone proposed extra water problem re JA Daniels Manager … today!

Tues 10 … Office … sorting out possible Clipstone borehole again!  Discuss Tony Barnes. Discuss Geoff Abbott Coal Prep Engr.  Phone Central Area … no Oxcroft water figures again!  Discuss Keith Rutherford Engineer re price of borehole etc. re Thoresby.  Discuss Ian Burns re same.  Phone Ian Shore Mansfield re water figures.  Phone Tony Nicholson and Ian Shaw re plans.  To Thoresby … exchanged R & FF plans.  Discuss Ian Shaw and Ian Wilson.  Office … Discuss Ian Burns re water borehole.  Phone Bob Sivel Area Costs dept re price increase since Jan 1986 from £50,000 to £60,000 in 3 years. CJ Whyte re Clipstone water bore, Mansfield well or Vicar Water.  Phone Peter Chatterton Rufford re same.  To Rufford … updated second copy Working plans.  Discuss Andy Wells re 208s problems and roof monitoring.  Discuss same Martin Bradder planner.    Discuss Vivian Tracer.  Discuss Chris  ... re Ozalid.  Phone Graeme Marshall re prior service to Asfordby re instruments, information and advice re SM1 forms etc.  To Rescue Station … exchanged Thoresby R & FF plans.

Wed 11 … To Ollerton … underground with CJ Whyte, Graeme Marshall and Garry Hall to 34s heading and 17s Retreat face.  Lunch and discuss.  Office … R & FF Plans.  Report re Clipstone water.  Discuss Tony Barnes.  Discuss John Walters and other planners.

Thurs 12 … To Sherwood … updated second copy Working plans.  Discuss Mick Orchiston new Manager.  Discuss Wilie McGranaghan Assistant Manager.  Discuss Rob Quincey re various and checking over planning.   Office … Report on Clipstone water problem.  CJ Whyte re same.  Phone Tom ? Clipstone re Deep Soft 103s.  Phone Nic Smith British Rail re same.  Discuss Graeme Marshall various. With Steve Elliott Subsidence dept re Working Rights re possible extension to Bevercotes 104s Low Waterloo.  Phone several variousl. To Thoresby … exchanged R & FF plans.  To Creswell … updated second copy Working plans.  Discuss Bill Fox, Billy Ellison, Peter Williams and Keith Banton.  Phone Mark Wright re application for Surveyor’s exam. Same for Keith Banton.  Phone CJ Whyte re Clipstone proposed well.  Discuss Ian Gill geologist re Creswell P4s fault.  Discuss Tim Colyer planner re signing proposed working!  To Rescue Station … to exchange Sutton R & FF plans.

Fri 13 … Office … Correspondence. Changed R & FF plans for Sutton, Clipstone and Thoresby.  Phone Ian Shore Mansfield re water figures again! PA Chambers DCME re Water reports etc. and gave him 2 copies of ‘Control of Minewaters’.  Discuss Malcolm Clarke planner.  To Harworth … updated second copy Working plans.  Discuss Peter Thompson.  Office … Discuss John Walters planner re various.  Phone Geotronics re send 2 x AGA 220 target boxes.  To Clipstone … updated second copy Working plans.  Discuss Hadi Al Rekabi, John Cranham and Richard Longden.  Office … discuss CJ Whyte.  Graeme Marshall re Bilsthorpe 117s Low Main to turn 90 degrees to right.  Discuss Tony Barnes re ‘quicky plans’ to RA Caunt CME.

Mon 16 … Office … GE Marshall meeting … cancelled. Discussion with CJ Whyte, GE Marshall and Garry Hall re the attitude of Tim Burke Manager at Ollerton re the staff … to make the Survey Assistant redundant and not replace him and also not accept Ian Orgill from Blidworth on temporary secondment.  To Mansfield … Salvage meeting DS Crisp Production Manager.  Discuss Ian Shore various and possibility of moving out of the office designated for a proposed TV Centre.  Discuss John Payne Manager and Roger Trueman Deputy Manager re shafts.  To Rescue Station … to exchange Clipstone R & FF plans.  Office … Phone Gary Blacknell at Mining Records Newstead re take boxed records to Newstead from Mansfield.  Phone Mike Parker Sutton re take survey tackle.  AGA carrying boxes delivered for Rufford.  To Rufford … to take AGA 220 target boxes.  Assisted David Archer to ink in notice.

Tues 17 … Office … Mike Pitts Vent dept re Mansfield fan when shaft fill in operation. Discuss Graeme Marshall re proposed Power Station at Bilsthorpe … update … a lot of water will be required for 200MW.  Phone Graham Millward Bilsthorpe re 117s fault and proposed turning to just miss borehole 187 oil bore!  Phone Peter Thompson Harworth re spads sent.  Phone Bill Fox Creswell re water figures.  Phone Bob Hallott Ollerton re various and plans.  Discuss Ian Burns update on Thoresby well … now test pumping.  Discuss GE Marshall re 117s Low Main at Bilsthorpe re Working Rights.  To Ollerton … updated second copy Working plans.  Discuss Bob Hallott Rescue boreholes folder.  To Thoresby … updated second copy Working plans.  Discuss Ian Shaw Keith Jenkins and Tony Nicholson.  Office … info re mine plans.  Phone Ian Shore Mansfield re redundant tackle etc.  To Mansfield … organised tackle and instruments inventory.

Wed 18 … Office … with Bob Draper checking over Working Rights and statutory notices for Thoresby, Clipstone and Bevercotes. Also re whether Marjorie Field at BP has brought permission … to examine BP boreholes.  Phone Peter Thompson Harworth re spads from Mansfield.  Meeting CJ Whte, GE Marshall, EW Fretwell, AR Barnes, TR Draper and self … Rationalisation of plans … to get all plans on 1/2500 or micro film old plans … re digitisation.  To count all plans.  Phone S & C Doncaster re Blidworth laser o.k.  Phoned Ian Orgill at Blidworth same.  Phone Neil Baker Central Area re send info re laser beams for track laying used at Bevercotes.  Also pit info and staffing.  Phone Ian Daykin Bevercotes re send info to Markham North Derbys.  Phone Richard Turner Silverhill re SM1 for Yard Y9s to send in. Reminded Joe Filep Photographic re Ollerton and Harworth surface plans to 1/5000.  With Bob Draper … continued checking Statutory notices.  Also review of Catalogue of Abandoned Mines.  Phone Mike Allen geologist re BGS visit.  To Mansfield … collected survey tackle.  To Sutton … to take survey tackle to the Store.  Discuss Peter Robinson.

Thurs 19 … To BGS Keyworth.  Joint examination and checking plans with Andy Howard … Tony Barnes, Bob Draper, mike Allen and self … for Clipstone, Gedling, Sherwood / Silverhill and Creswell.

Fri 20 … Office … Checked Layout plan for Rufford 210s Yard / Blackshale and I signed the negative for Andy Vjestica planner. Checked Layout plan for Bilsthorpe 117s Low Main extension and 121s with Bob Draper.  Phone Philip Shaw Ollerton re houses.  Phone Andy Wells Rufford re 208s and 210s Yard / Blackshale.  Listed and counted plans in safe of negatives held on 1/2500 with Tony Barnes, Bob Draper and Mick Flintham.  Phone David Archer Rufford re instruments.  To Mansfield … with Ian Shore … transported records to Newstead Mining Records Office.  Discuss Dave Clarke.  To Mansfield … picked up records for Area HQ.  Office … Group Staff meeting in Conference Room A at HQ DS Crisp Production Manager, Scientific and Safety.   Discuss CJ Whyte re Ollerton staff.  Phone Garry Hall re same … does not want Ian Orgill just for only one month.  Phone Rob Quincey Sherwood re use Electrician’s Computer drawings as part of the Electrical plan … yes!

Mon 23 … Office … Totalised number of 1/2500 plans in the safe = 1511.  Meeting GE Marshall, AR Barnes, TR Draper … Checking over Bilsthorpe 117s Low Main with Bob Draper. List of Eakring notices etc.  Mansfield Geological records to TR Draper’s office. Phone Ian Shore Mansfield re a winch is missing. To Eakring Village with Bob Draper and checked locations of 5 listed buildings. To Bilsthorpe … discuss Geoff Austin and Graham Kemp re 117s Low Main proposed extension.  Office … various locations of Eakring Village to Sue Unswoorth to identify on plan.  Discuss Phil Critchley Subsidence dept re same and possible subsidence effects.  Discuss CJ Whyte re Center Parcs pillar.  Met Ted Watkins Area Surveyor for Western Area.  Discuss Mick Bostock Vent dept re old workings and old shafts re possible gas problems!  Saw Steve Hill Subsidence dept re same.  David Oldham Elec Engineer re use of Mansfield Survey Office for TV Centre.

Tues 24 … Office … Correspondence.  Discuss Ian Burns re Mansfield Tip plans.  Writing report on Working plans for Annual Surveyor’s Meeting.  Phone Bill Fox Creswell re water figures for Creswell and Langwith.  Phone CJ Whyte re Mansfield Office.  Phone Garry Hall Ollerton re staff etc.  To Mansfield … Discuss Brian Orton ATT Engineer re shaft measures.  Assisted Ian Shore with removal of tackle from Survey Office to a new Office down the corridor. Discuss John Payne Manager and Tony Barnes re Linby Tip abandonment.  To Sherwood … took Abandonment plan copy negatives.  Also laser frame, powder paint, old paper etc. Discuss Stas Watson.  To Mansfield … Discuss Ian Shore re get Tip plans ready.  To Ollerton … took ranging poles, Railway curves, stool, powder paint and centre line markers.  Discuss Garry Hall.  To Thoresby … took Wild targets, spraying machine nozzle etc, AGA 110 battery and charger for safe keeping.  Office … discuss CJ Whyte re update.  Discuss Glen Chappell Photographer re Mansfield Dirt tip plans and some others.

Wed 25 ... Office … Correspondence.  Filing continued.  With Bob Draper and Tony Barnes … totalised number of plans for rationalisation.  Discuss Bob Draper and Brian Orton ATT various and shaft fill.  To S & C for Ian Shore purchasing instruments.  Discuss Graham Walters Welbeck re BACM etc.  Additional info re Working plans. Checking through Mansfield plans.  To Ollerton … to take underground staff … discuss Garry Hall and Philip Shaw.  Collected Kern GKO-A Level for repair.  To Rufford … to take an underground staff, needs refurbish.  Discuss Andy Wells and David Archer re Progress plans … to show all seams and pillars particularly.  Collected a calculation sheet to get 500 copies at HQ.

Thurs 26 … Office … Correspondence.  Discuss CJ Whyte re Sherwood Raise drill borehole … the rods had got fast.  Phone Tony Maddock, Rob Quincey and Stas Watson re same.  Discuss CJ Whyte and Tony Barnes  re Calverton / Thoresby computer set up … do we find way to get work for IG collieries etc?  Checking over Ollerton Parkgate Layout plan South 7 for 18s and 1s Extension heading for Working Rights and Notices etc.  Phone Richard Longden Clipstone re Surveyor’s Certificate again … amended form to send in for third time.  Phone Ian Shore … to measure Mansfield shafts on Monday.  Phone Mrs Johnson Kern at Chatham (now Wild), Revenge Road ... George Harper (Kern / Wild) and he took Ollerton GKO-A Level and discuss with CJ Whyte.  Also re to call at Harworth to look at DM 502 instrument.  Phone Ian Shore Mansfield 3 prints required for supports.  Discuss Bob Draper and Tony Barnes re plan rationalisation.  Phone Rob Quincey re latest report on Raise drill borehole n drilled 5 holes … rods still fast, sending for AMCO rig.  Don Brown Area Civil Engineer re Clipstone proposed borehole.  1/10000 and report made out for Martin Sly.  To Forest Repository … discuss Sheila Smith … took 3 boxes from Mansfield … records of Supports and accidents etc. … to go to Bestwood.  Picked up Roll plan and sorted out others.  To Welbeck … took old Roll plan of Top Hard.  Discuss Graham Walters, Gary Quibell, Cheryl and John Hind.  Took plans to Mansfield for Roger Trueman.

Fri 27 … Office … Correspondence.  To Registry at Forest … Sheila Smith.  Checking over Sherwood Deep Hard / Piper 112s area.  CJ Whyte re Sherwood / Mansfield demarcation finish.  Also Clipstone / Mansfield ?  PA Chambers DCME re same.  Phone Stas Watson Sherwood re same.  With CJ Whyte … letter to Director re same.  M Orchiston Manager sent letter 24 Jan to HMI.  To see PA Chambers DCME with letter.  Wendy Wain brought Annesley dial.  Notes for Surveyor’s meeting.  Checking over Oxcroft pumping figures with Debbie … I rewrote the sheet.  Phone Ian Shore Mansfield re Monday shaft measures.  Meeting CJ Whyte, Tony Barnes and Graham Marshall … discuss staffing if any pits close.  To Creswell … took the pumping figures.  Discuss Raise drill boreholes with Bill Fox and Billy Ellison.

Mon 30 … Correspondence.  Meeting GE Marshall, AR Barnes, TR Draper, various.  With Bob Draper … checking over Sherwood 112s area Z system on Deep Hard / Piper Layout plan. Phone Bill Fox Creswell re pumping figures. Oxcroft print from Central Area. Creswell received a 1640 computer.  Phone Rob Quincey Sherwood re Layout plan.  Phone Ian Daykin Bevercotes re not received a computer.  Phone George Simms Annesley re Top Hard Abandonment plan … yes o.k. to send an addendum plan.  Phone Bill Fox Creswell new figures required for Creswell pumping.  Discuss CJ Whyte re staffing.  To Sherwood … Examination check with Rob Quincey of Deep Hard / Piper Layout plan for 112s area.
Blidworth to close in February 1989.

Tues 31 … Office … Correspondence.  Old files re Area Surveyor’s Correspondence.  Copies of Mansfield Abandonment reports for Rob Quincey.  Phone Keith Jenkins Thoresby re PA Chambers DCME to view the computer on Fri afternoon. Phone Rob Quincey Sherwood re SM1 required for 110s gate (112s area) which is open now, containing water, but is to be stopped off … advise see Manager M Orchiston to hold off stopping till advance heading is 37m away and tell the HMI.  With CJ Whyte … memo re Bilsthorpe Low Main 118s / 120s and Ollerton Parkgate 15s … also added Bilsthorpe Low Main workings on Ollerton Strategic plan.  Saw Malcolm Clarke re same. Phone John Stapleton Cotgrave re various.  Discuss Glen Chappell re plan reduction and error in scale etc.  To Mansfield … took 1987 Tip plan photos. Discuss Ian Shore re shaft measuring. Discuss Keith Briggs who had called in. To Sherwood … took 5 Abandonment reports for examples.
Gedling to lose 450 men as efficiency drive etc.

February 1989

Wed 1 … To Mansfield ... Measured both shafts prior to filling with Ian Shore using both winches … 9.30am – 2.50pm assisted by Bob Childersley Shaftsman.  Office … Assisting Ian Burns with answers to questions re distances for all pit bottoms to faces and + 6km … for Hawkhurst Moor proposal enquiry … used Rescue & Fire Fighting plans … easy … good idea.  Bob Butler Hall & Watts picked up Mansfield optical plummet and brought leaflet to arrange viewing of Topean 30” theodolite.  To Rescue Station … to exchange Silverhill R & FF plans.
Thurs 2 … Office … Phone Ian Shore Mansfield re shaft measure results. Checked through all pit R & FF for km marks.  Phone Keith Jenkins Thoresby, Stas Watson Sherwood, Jed Thomas Bilsthorpe, Tony Wright Clipstone re some km marks missing on plans! Calverton plans had none at all!  Instructed them all to comply.  Discuss Tim Colyer planner re Creswell Threequarter and I signed Layout and re P4s gas. Discuss Keith Heskett planner re Bevercotes Low Waterloo new Layout.  Checking over Sherwood Deep Hard / Piper.  Phone Martin Bradder planner re amends.  Discuss John Raine Area Geologist re 17m fault at Asfordby … drilling fault due to close proximity of Permian, Discuss Bob Draper. To Mansfield Sand quarry and Berry Hill Hall and stables.  To Rufford … took calculation forms.  Discuss Andy Wells and Peter Chatterton re 208s etc. Got a copy of floor lift plan.  Office … Discuss Ian Burns re Rufford 208s distortion etc.  With Debbie amending Creswell water pumping figures.  Phone Hall & Watts … Peggy to tell Bob Butler visit off for tomorrow.  Phone Ian Shore Mansfield re shaft measuring equipment.  Phone Ian Shaw Thoresby re visit tomorrow and PCs.  Phone Garry Hall and John Peers Surface Superintendent Ollerton re bad water sample on 31 Jan at Newark Road.  Discuss Tony Pickering Area Ventilation Engineer re Creswell P4s gas emission.
Fri 3 … Office … Correspondence.  Discuss Bob Draper re Graeme Marshall to ring Annesley and Gedling. To Mansfield … Surface with Ian Shore … check measured the wire for stretch and re-marked for No1 shaft.  To Thoresby … Demonstration of PC 1640 main frame computer for PA Chambers DCME … he was impressed, with Graeme Marshall, Ian Shaw, Ian Wilson and Mick Clayton (Calverton).  Discuss R & FF plans omissions also.  Office … Changed R & FF plans.  Phone Chris Shail Harworth and Gary Quibell Welbeck re 1/10000 plans.  To Mansfield to pick up R & FF plan amends.  To Rescue Station to exchange Mansfield and Bilsthorpe R & FF plans
Mon 6 … Office … Meeting GE Marshall, AR Barnes, TR Draper, EW Fretwell and self. General update. Discuss Tony Barnes re computer and PA Chambers visit. Checking over Bevercotes Low Waterloo Layout plan … check with Bob Draper … discuss Keith Heskett planner phased dates.  Returned Ollerton Parkgate report to Steve Westmoreland planner.  Phone Rob Quincey Sherwood to send R & FF plans update re Mansfield stopping off.  To Bevercotes … discuss Low Waterloo Layout plan and various with Graham Hall.   Office … Phone Marin Davies Apprentice re payment for Surveyor’s certificate … no pass … no reimbursement.  Phone Vivian at Sherwood re R & FF plan folders required.  Phone Cheryl at Welbeck to send some to Vivian.  Phone Ian Shore Mansfield re measurements for shafts … both check nearly ‘spot on’.  To Sherwood … discuss Rob Quincey Deep hard / Piper Layout and faults in Deep Soft at Mansfield which ‘shorten’ a panel’s life … to update.  To Rescue Station … to take Sherwood update plan and Bevercotes R & FF plans exchanged.
Tues 7 … Office … R & FF amends.  Phone Richard Turner Silverhill re HP65 batteries … address for same.  Checking over Layout plans.  Discuss John Cranham re paper.  Phone Ian Wilson Thoresby re panel finishing dates near Ollerton.  Phone Richard Longden re Surveyor’s Certificate info.  Phone Billy Ellison Creswell re water figures.  Phone Garry Hall Ollerton re SM1 form.  To Ollerton … discuss Garry Hall re 1s Following Roads SM1 and various … also re proposed 18s.  Checked over Layout plan.  Waited for plan and SM1 to be completed.  Discuss Philip Shaw re Notices to serve etc.  Phone Hadi Al Rekabi Clipstone re 102s advance. Phone Peter Thompson Harworth re tomorrow.  Phone Nic Smith British Rail re visits, and 102s progress.  Discuss and reminisce Don Burton British Rail (ex Teversal 1958-59 underground experience).  Office … Discuss Tony Barnes.  Phone Bevercotes, Blidworth. Rufford, Thoresby and Sherwood re to put contours on 1/10000 plans.  Ollerton SM1 to Ventilation dept.  Discuss Ian Sweetland.  Discuss GE Marshall re plan for High Speed British Rail Joint Liasion meeting … Sue has already done it.  Phone Ian Shore Mansfield re Demarcation on Pit Lane re J Payne Manager.  To ring R Orgill Estaes.  To Mansfield … Info re shafts with Ian Shore.  To Sherwood … to take 1/10000 negatives.
Wed 8 … Office … Correspondence.  To Subsidence dept re Layouts. Phil Critchley and Mick Flintham.  Phone Steve Elliott. Discuss CJ Whyte re various and British Rail joint Liaison. Phoned Garry Hall Ollerton re any advanced heads?  I signed Sherwood Deep Hard / Piper Layout negative for Neil Shaw planner.  To Harworth … Deep Soft Layout plan checked over with Peter Thompson.  Discuss Steve Westmoreland planner.  Office … Piano wire for Stuart Whittle.  I signed Thoresby Parkgate Layout plan negative for Andy Vjestica and discuss.  Discuss Glen Chappell Photographer re Linby Tip photos, some light, some dark!  Discuss Tony Barnes re SM1 remarks.  Phone Alan Bennett Surveyor at Betteshanger, Kent re Talk at Annual Surveyor’s meeting.  Related same to GE Marshall.  Checking over Layout plan remarks.  Phone Andy Wells Rufford re 208s problems.  Phone Chris Shail Harworth re British Rail visit Mon 13th.
Thurs 9 … Office … Plotting boreholes on Silverhill BGS / BCC plan for Derbyshire area.  With Bob Draper checking over borehole info on sheets.  Discuss Albert Littler ex Manager now working for Dosco Hollybank.  To Clipstone … went through the procedure for application for Surveyor’s Exam and subsequent Certificate with Richard Longden and obtained copy of events.
Fri 10 … Office … Correspondence re instruments repairs etc.  Phone Ian Shaw Thoresby re HP65 spare parts?  Debbie re water figures.  Plotting boreholes on BGS plans.  Phone Bill Fox Creswell re water figures.  Phone Tony Wright Clipstone re Shirebrook No 28 borehole?  Phone Bill Fox again re Pit Lane Demarcation.  Discuss Bob Draper re borehole system of notification.  To Rufford … took A3 prints.  Coloured R & FF plan and discuss Andy Wells.  To Mansfield … Water report.  Office … continued plotting boreholes. Discuss Tony Barnes.  Phone Tony Wright Clipstone re Shirebrook No 28 borehole etc. and lack of knowledge of it! Ian Gill geologist re Mansfield well specifications … to see Dave Walton.
Mon 13 … Office … Discuss Tony Barnes and CJ Whyte re Area boundary at Welbeck, also A614 Trunk Road etc. and checked same.  Plotted boreholes for Calverton on BGS plans.  To Ollerton … Nic Smith British Rail updated his plans.  Discuss Philip Shaw.  To Harworth … Nic Smith British Rail updated his plans.  Discuss Chris Shail.  I took Kern GKO-A Auto Level back plus 6 bushes for legs.  Need another set of legs.   Office … continued plotting boreholes.  Discuss CJ Whyte and AR Barnes re Welbeck water problem re it is impossible to bring through Welbeck / Thoresby connection.  Discuss GE Marshall re Air pollution at Mansfield and to monitor until the shafts are filled.  Phone Roger Andrew Central Area re Oxcroft water figures.  Also re Shirebrook No 28 borehole … not known of before BGS info!
Tues 14 … Office … Phone Ian Shore re update at Mansfield … possibly start shaft fill on Wed.  Annual Meeting of Surveyors in Conference Room A.  I spoke on Working plans and the many anomalies … all very different … the only thing standard was the 2 x 1 km grid … but even so that was different in Kent where the starting corner co-ordinates was 500m instead of 1000m!
Wed 15 … Office … Correspondence.  Phone Rob Quincey Sherwood re AMCO had released the Robins Raise drill rods that had been fast for weeks.  Discuss Ian Burns various. Phone Mick Barber Shirebrook re Teversal water update and borehole No 28 in Clipstone take.  Writing up notes on the Surveyor’s meeting.   Phone Mike Allen and John Raine Area Geologist re system for borehole notification.  Phone Central Area … no reply!  Discuss Dave Walton Civil Engineer re Mansfield well and Ollerton old brickworks area for proposed lagoons.  Discuss Geoff Woods Deputy Estates Manager re Mansfield buildings etc.  Continued with minutes of meeting.  To Creswell … discuss Keith Banton Apprentice re exams etc., Discuss Bill Fox various and the Raise drill now 1 x 8 feet diameter instead of 2 x 5 feet diameter holes.  To Rescue Station … Recovered Mansfield Rescue & Fire Fighting plans.
Thurs 16 … Office … Correspondence.  Discuss CJ Whyte re Welbeck water and a possible pond?  Phone Trevor Speed Blidworth re the pit closure. Phone Bill Fox Creswell re pumping figures.  Discuss Bob Draper … he phoned Central Area Geologist re system of informing us about future boreholes.  To Mansfield … Check measured No1 shaft … 5 minutes lowering wire in and 6 minutes winding back out.  Water rising in both shafts!  Discuss John Payne Manager re shaft measuring.  Also re Tip plans and info.  Calculations with Ian Shore.  Phone Alan Marlow Central Area re system of informing us about boreholes!  Discuss john Danbury Elec Engineer re Bolsover Co History.  To Rescue Station … removed other Mansfield R & FF plans.  Discuss John Muir Superintendent re same and shaft fill at Mansfield … also Bentinck No1 shaft.  Discuss Bob Draper re boreholes.  Phone Graham Hall Bevercotes re position of Jockey House borehole.  Discuss Graeme Marshall re Robin Hood Theme Park working proposals, also the minutes of the Annual meeting of Surveyors.  Discuss Tony Barnes and Brian R Turner Operations Manager re Welbeck water.
Fri 17 … To Mansfield … started filling the shafts and check plumbing with Ian Shore.  Discuss Bob Childersley etc.  Discuss John Payne Manager.  Phone Ian Wilson Thoresby re HP65 from Mansfield? Yes.  Office … Update.  Pay Rise 8.5%.  Group Meeting DS Crisp.  Revaluation of collieries.  Phone Garry Hall Ollerton re 1s SM1 query by PA Chambers DCME re Graeme Marshall and discuss.  Discuss Bob Draper re boreholes.  Phone Ian Shore Mansfield re tomorrow and shaft bob fast in No1 shaft!  To Clipstone … took some gridded flat sheets.  Mansfield to finish.
Sat 18 … To Mansfield … with Ian Shore … check measured both shafts and wire stretch adjusted.  Calculations.
Sun 19 …. To Mansfield … with Ian Shore … check measured both shafts and wire stretch adjusted. Calculations.
Mon 20 … Office … PA Chambers DCME re Ollerton 1s SM1 signature and green line (later).  Meeting GE Marshall, TR Draper, Steve Hill Subsidence and self. General updates etc. PA Chambers re Welbeck 92s (88s sewer gate) SM1.  Discuss same Russ Packham and Bill ? Vent dept and also Tony Pickering Area Ventilation Engineer.  Phone Trevor Speed Blidworth re Tip plans and shaft fill procedure.  Phone Richard Clarke Gedling.  Phone Andy Wells Rufford re borehole info.  Phone Trevor Speed again re 2 lasers available.  Phone Dave Walton Civil Engr re Mansfield. Phone Ian Shore Mansfield re shaft fill … No1 shaft plumb lost!  Phone Garry Hall Ollerton re SM1 …. Green line missing … PA Chambers.  Discuss Bob Draper re boreholes info required for Rufford.  Phone Peter Thompson Harworth re GKO-A Level?  Phone Graham Walters Welbeck re SM1 ? for 92s Top Hard.  Phone Steve Barnes Bevercotes re optical plummet to borrow.  Discuss CJ Whyte re update. PA Chambers DCME re Welbeck SM1 … to send in a new one (‘shades of Goldsby creeping in but not as bad’…to justify his position I suppose otherwise no contribution in the system).  To Mansfield … Ian Shore re progress of shaft fill.
Tues 21 … To Welbeck … discuss Graham Walters and John Walls re 92s Top Hard SM1 … needs re doing for advancing heading alongside old 90s sewer gate for 88s.  Phone Mick Bostock Vent Engr re same.  Office … Phone Rob Quincey Sherwood query re order a new battery for AGA 220.  Phone Trevor Speed Blidworth re to do 2 separate Abandonment reports one for each seam.  Also re shaft fill at Mansfield.  Discuss Ian Orgill re interviewing men for redundancy.  Phone Ian Shaw and Ian Wilson Thoresby re Water well co-ordinates and level etc.  Phone Graham Hall Bevercotes re Jockey House borehole co-ordinates.  Discuss both with Bob Draper. Plotting boreholes to date on BGS plans. Phone Peter Thompson Harworth re GKO-A Level no good.  Phoned Peggy at Hall & Watts re same.  To Bevercotes … to take optical plummet and discuss Graham Hall.  To Mansfield … check plumbed both shafts to concrete level finish at Top Hard and check measure for stretch on pit yard and adjusted tape marks with Ian Shore.  Phone Rob Quincey Sherwood re new battery for AGA 220 and also info re the drill rig at the ventilation borehole. Phone Tony Barnes various.
Wed 22 … Office … Correspondence.  Layout plan for Clipstone Deep Soft checking.  S & C re order numbers for Marie.  Phone Geotronics x 2 … ordered battery pack for AGA 220 for Sherwood.  Phoned Kern x 2 … ordered tripod for GKO-A Level for Harworth.  Discuss Graeme Marshall and Tony Barnes update.  Phone Graham Hall Bevercotes re 7s / 3s connection … just received small inset plan … SM1 sent before Christmas!  Graeme Marshall to see PA Chambers DCME re system.  Phone Graham Walters Welbeck re 92s SM1 ready to be sent in again ... seen by HMI M Bottomley … o.k.  Phone Trevor Speed Blidworth re various.  To Clipstone … took books of 1/5000 surface reductions to enable copies for Clipstone ‘take’.  Also copy of BGS negative.  Discuss Tony Wright to visit Shirebrook in future.  To Rufford … took 1/10000 BGS plan and list of borehole Quarter sheets.  Discuss Andy Wells re Low Main to stay on imperial and to make metric overlays.  I instructed him to make Yard workings to date (supposed to be metric since May 1976 … exemption to seam abandoned).
Thurs 23 … To Clipstone … 40” roll of ozaloft from Rufford.  Office … Correspondence.  Received battery from Geotronics.  Discuss Tony Barnes re Welbeck Top Hard 92s SM1.  Phone Stas Watson Sherwood re Pleasley Piper sheet 43/4863 for Silverhill.  Co-ordinates of Thoresby Rexco No3 borehole water well to Bob Draper.  With Russ Packham, Vent dept re Shirebrook / Warsop Deep Soft in relation to Clipstone workings … in Subsidence dept.  Phone Gill and Steve Westmoreland planner.  Phone Ian Shore re Mansfield shaft fill update.  Phone Garry Hall Ollerton re SM1 for 1s … PA Chambers DCME.  To Harworth … to fetch Kern GKO-A Auto Level to return to Hall & Watts.  Discuss proposed surface borehole and O.S. sheets required for Bench Mark etc.  Office … sorted out O.S. sheets … one missing!  Phone Peter Thompson Harworth re same.  Discuss Eric Spencer Area Planning Engr re ‘quicky plans’ on 1/5000 not being checked.  To Photographic dept with Jack ? and checked over all plans required.  Collected Harworth surface 1/5000 neg.  To Ollerton … investigation into proposed borehole from old Bunker Road to Conveyor Road in vicinity of old stables.  Discuss various.  Discuss panzer creep and correction with Stuart Morris Undermanager … !!!  Kern GKO-A tripod for Harworth delivered.
Fri 24 … Office … Phone Richard Clarke Gedling re HH A59s water.  Correspondence.  Updating Water reports and quantities etc.  Discuss Central Area re borehole system with Bob Draper … Mike Allen geologist has info re Shirebrook No 28 borehole and not passed it on!  Phone Ian Shore Mansfield re Tip plans to collect.  Phone Tony Wright Clipstone re 1/5000 surface plans negatives … now complete.  Graeme Marshall re notes on 1/5000 ‘quicky plans’ from Planning dept for PA Chambers DCME. ? … He was in charge of Planning dept as well as Survey!).  Updating pumping figures for Creswell with Celia, Tracer.  To see PA Chambers re Gedling HH A59s water problem.  To Clipstone … picked up 1/5000 O.S. reductions.  To Mansfield … picked up Tip plans and sorted with Ian Shore.  Office … To Photographic dept … took Mansfield Tip plans.  Meeting … CJ Whyte, GE Marshall and EW Fretwell re retirement etc.  PA Chambers called in for discussion.
Sun 26 … To Mansfield … check plumbing etc. of both shafts with John Fletcher and John ?  Differences in concrete calculations … not filling High Hazles inset … only 100 cu m of concrete tomorrow for No2 shaft.
Mon 27 … To Mansfield … discuss Ian Shore.  Phone Graeme Marshall for me to come to meeting.  Office … Meeting … Graeme Marshall, TR Draper, EW Fretwell and AR Barnes … General update. To Photographic dept discuss Jack ? and Glen Chappell re O.S. 1/5000 reductions being 10m too big!  Brought back Mansfield Tip plans.  To Mansfield … Salvage meeting … late … Discuss David Walton Civil Engr and John Payne Manager re the differences in shaft fill!  Office … Correspondence.  Phone Bill Fox Creswell re water figures. Also Langwith tunnel and P4s progress.  Phone British rail John Donnelley re P4s heading going 15m into the half depth pillar.  Phoned back to say it would be o.k. Received a plan of 1985 showing a nearer position.  Phone Geoff Austin Bilsthorpe re various..  Discuss Tony Barnes re Tip photos!  Phone Dave Clarke Mining Records at Newstead re same … only last set needs ½ plate … but all to have EM number.  Discuss Bob Draper and John Jelley Solicitor from Doncaster re Copyhold etc. … to send paper on same (re Hollins Mill at Pleasley).
Tues 28 … Office … Paul Jaycock of Wild Leitz Kern re various and computer software etc. Discuss Tony Barnes.  Introduced him to Andrew Higginson Civil Engr Tips re a Total Station instrument.  Phone Ian Shaw Thoresby various.  To Harworth … took new Kern GKO-A tripod.  Also 1/2500 O.S. sheets for proposed borehole and 1/5000 O.S. reduction ozalofts.  Discuss various with Peter Thompson.  To Bevercotes … took photocopies of Tip plans for 1987.  Discuss Graham Hall and Steve Barnes and David Ellison re SM1 for Low Waterloo.  Office … Tony Barnes re Blidworth meeting … R Bexon.  Discuss Ian Burns T & CP old Class XX and coal stocks.  Discuss Jack / in Photographic re Ollerton 1/5000 negatives.  Discuss Wayne Cooper Staff dept re various.  Discuss Peter Daffin Estates and lent him a plan showing all old collieries pre Nationalisation.  Phone Garry Hall Ollerton re 1s Parkgate SM1 and level … now with PA Chambers but signed o.k. … discuss Janet PA. Phone Andy Wells Rufford re DS Crisp holding up computer order!

March 1989

Wed 1 ... To Mansfield ... Info for Blidworth Meeting re shafts etc. New Ollerton village ... Discuss Harold Hand (ex Linesman Ollerton retired). Office ... Phone Wild Leitz Kern re Ollerton GKO-A Auto Level £188. To S & C re same ... Marie o.k. Discuss Keith Heskett planner re Bilsthorpe Low Main 117s. Discuss Tony Barnes re Asfordby ... no involvement now. To Bilsthorpe ... to take Layout plan for 117s. Discuss staffing with Geoff Austin and Graham Millward. To Blidworth ... discuss Trevor Speed re waterlogged areas, water routes, shaft exam and stopping etc. also with Brian Orton ATT Engineer. Meeting ... R Bexon, DS Crisp ... salvage of Blidworth to be finished by end of March and shaft fill by end of April. Discuss Phil Wakeman Civil Engineer.

Thurs 2 ... To Mansfield ... collected HP65 calculator. To Clipstone ... to take folder for 1/5000 negatives. Office ... Correspondence. Phone John Nightingale Silverhill re any EDM available? Notes of Blidworth Meeting to Tony Barnes. Phone Perter Thompson Harworth re Wild optical plummet for repair ... next Tuesday. Phone Andy Wells Rufford re dial from Zenith (19/2/1989). Phone STWA re Blidworth shaft fill etc. R Harris Solihull ... o.k. Phone Ian Shore Mansfield re Tip plans and shafts fill. Self-Rescuer training at Area HQ. Discuss PA Chambers DCME re Mansfield shafts fill. Meeting CJ Whyte, GE Marshall, TR Draper, AR Barnes, EW Fretwell and self re Area Surveyor's Conference. Spads for Ron Sheldon (ex-Area Surveyor South Notts.). To Thoresby to take HP65 from Mansfield ... discuss Ian Shaw. To Ollerton ... 1s SM1 ... discuss Garry Hall and Philip Shaw. Office ... Phil Wakeman Civil Engineer borrowed Mansfield Stopping plans for Blidworth. Phone Hadi Al Rekabi Clipstone re slight differences in Deep Soft and Low Main? ... to mean the measurements ! 

Fri 3 ... To Mansfield ... Ian Shore various and Tip plans to put reference number on ... stamped yesterday by Dave Clarke Mining Records. Phone Martin Bradder planner re Clipstone / Shirebrook Deep Soft workings. Phone Tony Wright Clipstone re same o.k. Ready. Office ... Phone Martin Bradder planner o.k. Gave Steve Richardson planner O.S. 1/5000 negatives for Clipstone ... to take. Phone Graham Hall Bevercotes re Tip plans. Phone Zenith Survey ... to pick up optical plummet from Harworth. Phone Ian Shaw Thoresby re HP65 charger. Phone Ian Shore Mansfield re same ... to collect. Phone Richard Clarke Gedling re HP65 cable. Graeme Marshall re notes on proposed updating of Code of Practice. I signed Bilsthorpe 1/5000 Layout for Keith Heskett planner. Discuss Keith Goodwin Asfordby ... updated workings on R & FF plans. I signed Bilsthorpe Low Main 1/5000 Layout for Steve Westmoreland.

Sat 4 ... To Mansfield ... measured shafts fill 40mm stone ... 4.30pm - 6.00pm ... No1 O.K. … No2 ... belt weigher? My weekend on ... Ian Shore off.

Sun 5 ... To Mansfield ... measured shafts fill 40mm stone ... 4.15pm - 5.45pm ... No1 O.K. ... No2 ... belt weigher o.k.

Mon 6 ... Office ... Phone Ian Shore Mansfield re shaft fill info. No2 shaft belt weigher adjusted. Discuss CJ Whyte Mansfield progress. Ian Burns re Bevercotes tip contours! Printing. Phone Wendy Wain Zenith re plummet? Tim phoned back ... £50. Sorting out plans ... O.S. 1/25000. To Mansfield ... Stencilling S7/41 on negatives of Dirt tips ... approx. 50. Phone Debbie re Harworth optical plummet. Phone Philip Shaw Ollerton ... re borrow one ... no. Phone Richard Longden Clipstone ... re borrow one ... yes. To Clipstone ... to pick up optical plummet. Request for 1 more O.S. Plan ... o.k. To Harworth ... took the optical plummet (Wendy Wain Zenith collected one today for repair.) Discuss update. To Thoresby ... took battery charger for HP65 from Mansfield. Discuss update Ian Shaw. Office ... Discuss Bob Draper re Copyholds ... Paper on same.

Tues 7 ... Office ... Phone Ian Shore Mansfield re update of info. Discuss Ian Burns various. Phone Richard Clarke Gedling re HP65 charger ... to send one. Phone Peter Thompson Harworth re O.S. bench marks (BMs). Phone Ordnance Survey Nottingham re same ... to phone back. Phone Central Area re water figures ... to phone back. Phone Peter Thompson Harworth again ... Haigh Moor Abandonment plans will be ready for deposition in May. Also Barnsley pit bottom plans to go to Mining Records Office. Phone Philip James Blidworth re various on closing down. Phone Graham Hall Bevercotes re need 6 blank flat sheets to convert Parkgate imperial to metric. To Bevercotes to take 7 flat sheets and book for conversion ... no good, only goes to -7500 and needs -7100. Discuss same David Ellison. Office ... Phone Trevor Speed Blidworth re visit to Mansfield shaft fill measuring. Phone P Bradshaw Mansfield Office Ordnance Survey re BMs at Daneshill Bilsthorpe O.S. photos from Jack ? ... O.K. Phone Marketing dept re High Marnham Power Station broken down ... need to stock coal. Group Staff Meeting DS Crisp Production Manager. Discuss John Payne Manager re shafts fill. Manager Ashington Workshops slide show. Bilsthorpe Mini Power Station ... air cooled. Robin Hood Theme Park ... Friday. Phone Garry Hall Ollerton. Phone Bob Hallott Ollerton re various. Discuss Ian Burns environment.

Wed 8 ... Office ... discuss Tony Barnes update. Discuss Bob Draper same. Phone Andy Howard BGS ... no more plan investigation till April. Phone P Bradshaw O.S. Mansfield ... ordered 2 negatives for Harworth. Phoned Peter Thompson re same. Discuss David Snodin planner. Discuss Trevor Speed re shaft fill measuring. Phone Mike Parker Sutton re various. To S & C. Sent 1 more negative for Clipstone to Photographic for 1/5000 scale. To Sutton ... to collect 2 tripods for Adrian Morley Estates. Discuss Peter Robinson and Graham Bradshaw Safety Officer (ex Teversal C/O. Phone re Harworth GKO-A Level to go back to Hall & Watts via Bob Butler. Office ... phone Industrial Relations re John Durkin Surveyor's Assistant at Blidworth re a position at Ollerton or Bilsthorpe. Phone Trevor Speed re same. Discuss Dave Walton Civil Engineer re Mansfield.

Thurs 9 ... Office ... Amended Parish plan for Ravenshead (1988). Discuss Phil Critchley subsidence. CJ Whyte re update info re Harworth for British Coal liaison. Phone Chris Shail Harworth re panel progress, plotted same. Phone Bill Fox re various. Sandra S & C re cheque for Adrian Ashley re purchase instrument. Discuss Tony Barnes water figures for update of Coalfield Pumping Committee folder. To Rufford ... discuss David Archer 208s panel ... picked up plan and sections of 208s Supply Gate convergence ... 18 inches high! Office ... discuss Bob Draper. Phone Graham Hall Bevercotes. Phone CJ Whyte at Bevercotes re Meeting tomorrow at 2pm with Deputy Director Mining. Phone Richard Longden Clipstone re 2/5000 surface plans ... to take. Discuss Dave Clarke re deposition of Tip plans for Mansfield. Phone Bill Fox Creswell various. Martin Bradder planner re Rufford old Strategic plans. Discuss Keith Laver? Re note from P & S re paper for Plotters? Phone Phil Critchley re Rufford Strategic plans. Gave plans of Rufford to PA Chambers.

Fri 10 ... To Mansfield ... discuss Ian Shaw why both shaft 'vent pipes' are blocked. On night shift nobody lifted the pipes to take a length off but carried on tipping stone! Discuss John Danbury Elec Engineer re the History of the Bolsover Co ... one of his major interests. Office ... Phone ... Peter Thompson Harworth BM for proposed oil bore. Correspondence. Phone Peter Thompson again re box for DM 502 tackle. Phoned Kern re same ... to phone again later. Phone Graham Walters Welbeck BACM re Surveyors Job Evaluation 23/24 on M4 and 1/24 on M3. To Creswell ... discuss Bill Fox and Billy Ellison. Also took ozaloft prints. Office ... Phone Ollerton, Bevercotes, Harworth, Thoresby, Rufford, Sherwood, Cotgrave, Gedling, Calverton re result. Phone Cotgrave re height of Tower headgear 43m for Notts. C C re Leics CC. Phone Garry Hall Ollerton various. Phone Steve ? Overman Mansfield re the position of shaft fill ... both pipes fast. Phone Ian Shore and John Danbury Mansfield. Discuss Eric Seaton Vent dept re Mansfield problem and a video viewing Eric and plotting. Discuss Tony Barnes same. 
Message ... Staff to be cut by 15%.

Sun 12 ... To Mansfield ... discuss shaft fill and stoppage with Steve ? Colliery Overman.

Mon 13 ... To Clipstone ... took 1/5000 O.S. reduction to complete the set. Office ... Meeting GE Marshall, AR Barnes, TR Draper, EW Fretwell. Update 9am - 11am. Phone Ian Shore Mansfield re update. Interview with Wayne ? Superannuation Office. Phone Bob Butler Hall & Watts re can't put compensator in a GKO-A Level. Meeting CJ Whyte, GE Marshall, AR Barnes, EW Fretwell regarding staff cuts. Phone Bill Fox Creswell re water figures. Phone David Ellison Bevercotes, Graham Millward Bilsthorpe, Garry Hall Ollerton, Peter Thompson Harworth, Billy Ellison Creswell, David Archer Rufford, Ian Wilson Thoresby, Tony Wright Clipstone, Stas Watson Sherwood, Keith Goodwin Asfordby re staff cuts etc. and interviews for all over 50 and some under 50 next Monday. Also to send ITP in headings. Discuss Andy Lindy Deputy Ventilation Engineer. Interviewed by Peter A Chambers and Charles J Whyte re Redundancy etc. I explained to them about the Mansfield shafts fill situation. Keith Heskett re Bevercotes 10s Top Hard Layout amendment. Phone Garry Hall Ollerton. Phone HMI Malcolm Bottomley query re stopping details at Mansfield ... have they been sent to Mining Records Office in the Abandonment reports ? ... yes. HMI Steve Wing took the details to Worksop Office from Sherwood.

Tues 14 ... Office ... discuss CJ Whyte. Phone Bill Fox Creswell various. Phone Dave Clarke at Mining Records to confirm the stopping details for Mansfield are in the Abandonment reports ... yes. Correspondence. Phone Steve Colliery Overman at Mansfield re shafts update. Checking SM1s. To Torworth surface borehole with Bob Draper, met Bob Holland Boremaster and discuss. Deep Soft core 1.76 m coal and dirt. To Harworth ... took Optical plummet ex Mansfield and exchanged for Clipstone one. Took O.S. negatives for borehole. Prints. Discuss Maria Tracer. Office ... Phone Leigh Warhurst Calverton and Mark Stevenson re redundancy. Phone Keith Mitchell Agent Caledonian Co (Keith was Assistant at Teversal when I was Apprentice 1953-55) ... Enquired about redundant instruments and lasers. Also Kevin Bradley (ex Apprentice at Ollerton 1971) re same. Phone Philip Shaw Ollerton re possible redundancy. Phone Mansfield Overman 'Nobby' re shaft fill?

Wed 15 ... Office ... Correspondence. Phone Philip Shaw Ollerton re redundancy ... put on list. Discuss re sending planners to pits. Discuss Tony Barnes re instrument repairs and sorted out in the store. Lasers, level and theodolite for Caledonian? ... prices? Phone Tim at Zenith re 2 T2 theodolites for repair and prices for second-hand instruments. Phil Garner re Mining Report for 68 Leadale Crescent, Mansfield Woodhouse. Phone Philip Shaw. To Blidworth ... to pick up tackle. Discuss various and shaft measuring procedure using shot firing cable and electrical tilt plumb bob and to check length of the cable on the pit yard frequently and adjust the 10 metre tape marks due to stretch of cable. To Bilsthorpe ... to take tackle from Blidworth ... Wild T2 theodolite, 3 tripods, optical plummet, stand, DI 4 EDM etc. Discuss Graham Kemp.

Thurs 16 ... Phone Trevor Speed Blidworth re send ITP PI to Keith Goodwin Asfordby. To Mansfield ... discuss Ian Shore re shafts fill. Phone Garry Hall Ollerton re coal stocking areas? To Clipstone ... took Wild optical plummet back loaned from Harworth. Discuss Tony Wright. Office ... Discuss Bob Draper. Ian Burns re coal stocking sites. Graeme Marshall re plans and info required for the revaluation of Collieries. Also re coal stocking. Phone John Morgan Marketing re British Rail demarcation points at Collieries. Sold Zeus Level to Ian Tomlinson. Phone Peter Downing Deputy Civil Engineer re same ... to come. Phone Bob Saunders Civil Engineer various. Phone Peter Thompson Harworth re pens, HP65 and batteries. Jack ? Photographer re enlarging machine ... out ... has been recalibrated. To Harworth ... took HP65, charger and battery. Discuss. Office ... Copy of new O.S. plan of Mansfield Woodhouse.

Fri 17 ... Office ... Correspondence. Phone Philip Shaw Ollerton ... take his name off the list for redundancy. Discuss GE Marshall re Water report for Creswell, Langwith, Oxcroft. Phone Peter Downing Civil Engr ... did not come! Phone Peter Robinson Sutton ... to send handles for two 50m bands. Val Cope to take her name off the list for redundancy. Phone Trevor Speed Blidworth re purchase of a Kern Automatic Level ... o.k. Phone Keith Mitchell Caledonian re prices for the number of instruments proposed ... £4,300 ! .. new? Lent a Level to Chris Walton planner. Discuss Bob Draper. Discuss Wendy Wain Zenith re instruments. Sent 2 x Wild T2 theodolites for overhaul. To Ollerton ... to pick up Boughton Pumping Station deeds and plan. Discuss Garry Hall and Philip Shaw re same. Office ... Discuss Eric Fretwell same and to copy it.

Mon 20 ... Office ... discuss with all coming for interview ... Janet Wells, Bill Fox, Billy Ellison, Geoff Austin, Graham Kemp, Tony Wright, Peter Thompson, Garry Hall, Dick Bramley, Graham Hall, Mark Stevenson, Richard Clarke, Stef Sharman, Ian Wilson, Keith Jenkins. Phone Glen Chappell Photographer re camera adjusting. Phone Robert Quincey re possibity of working Mansfield coal from Sherwood! Discuss Eric Fretwell re Ollerton Top Hard only and Boughton Pumping Station. Bob Draper re same. Phone 'Nobby' Colliery Overman at Mansfield re shaft fill. Entered details of Mansfield shaft fill in M & Q 212 book. Phone John Stapleton Cotgrave! To Creswell ... discuss Bill Fox various and P4s panel swing. Billy Ellison re computer. To Mansfield ... No1 Shaft filling completed ... 3 loads for No2 shaft wanted. (Note ... ‘somebody’ went down both shafts to where the filling was stood and unbolted the ventilation tubes so that they could be lifted as per the method of operation, leaving in situ those that were fast, so that the filling could restart and completed). Filling the Yard well. Discuss Ian Shore, John Fletcher, John Thorpe and Bob Childersley. Both shafts completed to top. Office ... Tape handles to Phil Critchley Subsidence dept.

Tues 24 ... Office ... Correspondence. No reply from Peter Downing Civil Engr ! Phone Nic Smith British Rail twice re visit to Thoresby and Bilsthorpe on Wed 29th. Phone Ian Shore Mansfield re progress on well ... stood no stone. To Planning dept ... discuss Martin Bradder planner re proper Sherwood Deep Hard / Piper in 'Mansfield 'take'. Discuss Malcolm Clarke planner. Discuss Bob Draper re serve Notice to British Rail re Thoresby 70s. Discuss CJ Whyte. Discuss Ian Burns re coal stocking. To Thoresby ... discuss British Rail demarcation with Ian Shaw, Ian Wilson and Keith Jenkins. To Bevercotes ... discuss British Rail demarcation with Steve Barnes. To Ollerton ... discuss same Garry Hall. To Bilsthorpe ... same with Geoff Austin and Graham Kemp. To Rufford ... discuss same with David Archer. Andy Wells re SM1 for Yard seam. Last off ... message ... Mansfield Yard well filled to top.

Wed 22 ... To Sherwood ... discuss British Rail demarcation with Rob Quincey and Carl Blanton. To Clipstone ... discuss British Rail demarcation with Tony Wright and Hadi Al Rekabi and Karen Tracer. Office ... Phone Trevor Speed Blidworth re instrument. Sorted out Old Workings drawer with Bob Draper. Mansfield 212 Notice for shafts fill completion. Discuss Graeme Marshall re the revaluation of Collieries ... me to do 1/2500 plans and be involved. Phone Keith Goodwin Asfordby re new Egress Regulations. CJ Whyte re Rufford Area coal stocks to be resurveyed. Phoned David Archer and Andy Wells. Copies of 1988 Egress Regulations from Jane in Safety dept. Lunch ... Eyre Arms Rampton with CJ Whyte, Graeme Marshall, Tony Barnes, Bob Draper and Eric Fretwell. Office ... discuss Tony Barnes re water and Mansfield involvement and also demarcation with R Bexon due to J Payne Manager not having a Deputy now. DS Widdowson asked about coal stocking on Bevercotes No1 dirt tip? I asked Ian Burns re same ... to sort out. Full T & CP needed for No3 dirt tip. Phone John Fletcher Engr Mansfield re various. Ian Shore? Discuss Alan Wilkinson Industrial Relations Training ... for me to give lectures on accidents (4 underground and 1 surface) at Sherwood.

Thurs 23 ... Office ... Phone Ian Shore Mansfield re British Rail demarcation, tips and shafts. Roger Bexon involvement re surface demarcation. Discuss with him later re sending 212 notice for Mansfield and also re the shaft fill ! Discuss Graeme Marshall, Area Surveyor & Minerals Manager re my involvement with the Mineral Valuers and plan preparation etc. Lunch at the Robin Hood Charles Whyte’s retirement. Discuss Mike Gallagher Mineral Valuer there. Office ... Discuss Tony Barnes Deputy Area Surveyor various. Discuss Peter Daffin Estates re restoration plans. PA Cambers DCME signed letters for Mansfield 212 notices etc. Copies of letters signed by PA Chambers and Len Harris Area Director. Sent letter to Principal HMI Ken Twist re Mansfield abandonment. Discuss Dave Clarke Mining Records re Mansfield tip plans.

Fri 24 ... Office ... Distributed copies of Mansfield abandonment 212 notice. Phone Trevor Speed Blidworth re shafts fill etc. Phone re new valuation ... Harworth, Bevercotes, Ollerton, Bilsthorpe, Creswell, Rufford and Sherwood. Meeting Charles J Whyte, Graeme Marshall Tony Barnes, Eric Fretwell, Bob Draper ... staff rearrangements and redundancies. Corrick McCormick Subsidence dept leaves today. 

Debbie Wawszczak (pronounced Vaffchak) to leave at end of April. Bob Draper to finalise jobs ... 15% to go. Ideas on promotions should Surveyors leave. To Linby with Tony Barnes ... levelled to top of concrete cap at No1 shaft. Sorted out old tackle. To Rufford ... took dial legs and underground staff. To Mansfield ... discuss John Danbury Elec Engr and sorting out tackle. Afternoon ... Farewell to Charles.

Mon 27 ... Easter Monday

Tues 28 ... Holiday in lieu of Good Friday

Wed 29 ... Office ... Meeting GE Marshall, Tony Barnes, Eric Fretwell, Bob Draper. Staff redundancies, general and future development. To Thoresby ... British Rail Nic Smith updated plans (last time before British Rail changeover to Nottinghamshire included in Southern Region) ... to check on Thoresby Parkgate 122s etc. Discuss Ian Wilson. Lunch at Dog and Duck. To Bilsthorpe with Nic Smith British Rail plans update. Discuss Graham Kemp. Office ... discuss Bob Draper (back in downstairs office). Discuss GE Marshall re Bilsthorpe 118s and Ompton Pumping Station ... discuss same with Eric Spencer Area Planning Engr. Phone Trevor Speed Blidworth update. Phone Peter Thompson same. Discuss Eric Fretwell and Mick Flintham subsidence. Discuss Mick Bostock Vent Engr various. Phone Graham Hall Bevercotes re Friday visit.

Thurs 30 ... Office ... Phone Ian Shore Mansfield re general update. Discuss Bob Draper re Sec 2 notice and other notices for Bilsthorpe 117s Low Main. Phone Bob Lake BGS twice re wells at Welbeck. Phone John Walls Welbeck twice re same. Discuss Tony Barnes re same. Phone Billy Ellison Creswell re surface buildings. Finished off stencilling and outline of new surface demarcation plan negative for Creswell. To Mansfield ... sorting through plans for scrapping or for redistribution with Ian Shore. Discuss John Danbury. Discuss John Payne Manager re Ian Shore and Hucknall and Babbington shafts fill. To Clipstone ... took ozaloft material ... discuss Tony Wright. 2 rolls to Ian Burns for Environment. Phone Tony Barnes re Hucknall and Babbington re John Payne.

Fri 31 ... Office ... sorted out papers etc from Mansfield plus plans, shaft info and geological records to Bob Draper for filing. Discuss GE Marshall re Philip Shaw and Bob Hallott at Ollerton. Discuss Sam Dunlop Mech Engr and BACM Rep re redundancy etc. Phone Ian Shore Mansfield re the Field well and Mansfield demarcation ... to contact Geoff Woods Deputy Estates Manager. To Bevercotes ... with GE Marshall ... discuss Mini Accountability with Graham Hall. Office ... Group Staff Meeting ... DS Crisp Ops Manager. Discuss Tony Barnes re water inrush at Markham N Derby’s.

April 1989

Mon 3 ... Office ... Phone Ian Shore Mansfield re update. Meeting ... GE Marshall, AR Barnes, EW Fretwell, TR Draper, IW Burns. Phone Ian Shaw Thoresby ... re a cable for Wild DI 4 EDM. Phone Tim Zenith re same and estimates for 2 x T2 theodolites, new cable and repairs. Phone Ian Shaw re same. To S & C re DI 4 cable. Phone Trevor Speed Blidworth re shaft measuring for fill. Discuss GE Marshall and AR Barnes re rating. Phone Andy Wells Rufford re coal stocks and density factor. Meeting PA Chambers, GE Marshall, AR Barnes, Alwyn (Oscar) Coulson Deputy Area Planner, Gordon Jacobs, Keith Lumsdon, Mineral valuers Leeds re the Valuation of all Collieries. To Mansfield ... picked up tackle for redistribution.

Tues 4 ... To Mansfield ... discuss Ian Shore re packing up and plans etc. ... his last day. Discuss Paul Grimshaw (ex U/m) Surface Superintendent re Tip reports etc ... to get them all together. Office ... Phone Bevercotes, Bilsthorpe, Clipstone, Creswell, Harworth, Ollerton, Rufford and Sherwood re Fire hazard Return to Bretby (re the King's Cross Underground fire) ... for all conveyors steeper than 1in4 (15 degrees). Phone Steve Dyke Scientific re Rufford coal stocks discrepancy. Phone Bevercotes, Harworth and Ollerton re dates for valuation. Phone Nic Smith British Rail re Creswell Threequarter P4s stopping parallel to Langwith tunnel. Phone Tim at Zenith a T2 theodolite is £600. Phone Peter Thompson Harworth re Haigh Moor plans ready for inspection re Abandonment. Phone Jack ? In Photographic re remainder of Mansfield Tip plans. To Thoresby ... took some tackle, ex Mansfield and discuss. To Ollerton ... took some tackle ex Mansfield and discuss. Office ... Phone Kern Wild Leitz re Ollerton GKO-A Level ... waiting for spares from Switzerland. Ian Burns re coal stocks. Phone Hall and Watts re GKO - A Level for Harworth ... still not ready! Trimming Mansfield Tip plans. GE Marshall re Harworth Abandonment plans. Discuss Mechanical ET re Precautions against Inrushes. Discuss Graham Hall re Bevercotes Low Waterloo 102s SM1 ... with Ventilation dept ... checked up ... gone to PA Chambers for solution to Ventilation fan!

Wed 5 ... Office ... Discuss Tony Barnes re Oxcroft / Langwith / Creswell water situation. Phone Trevor Speed re purchase a Level. To P & S re same. Discuss GE Marshall various. To Industrial Training Branch ... discuss Frank Culley re problem with Lectures during April / May re Alan Wilkinson. Trimming the remaining Mansfield Dirt tip plans (part 1 set). Phone Peter Thompson Harworth re various. Discuss Mick Flintham Subsidence dept re old shafts in the upper Meden valley in readiness for him taking over same. To Harworth ... checking over Haigh Moor plans with Peter Thompson in readiness for abandonment.

Thurs 6 ... Office ... phone Harworth, Bevercotes, Bilsthorpe, Ollerton, Thoresby, Rufford, Sherwood for the info on conveyor belts steeper than 1in4. Discuss Eric Seaton Vent dept re Ollerton NE thirling not the 4th drift. Phone Garry Hall re same. Phone Tim at Zenith re wrong cable for DI 4 instrument ... to send Wendy Wain. Phone Ian Shaw Thoresby re same. With Peter Daffin Estates re areas of restoration on tips for Bevercotes, Welbeck, Silverhill, Sherwood, Bilsthorpe and Clipstone. Proposed tip extension at Bevercotes with Ian Burns Environment. Coloured several copies for Bevercotes and Ollerton. To Bevercotes ... going through check list and plans for revaluation with Steve Barnes. Discuss Ian Daykin re extension to coal stocking area at No1 tip and British Rail demarcation.

Fri 7 ... Office ... colouring Manager’s demarcation and restoration plans for valuation exercise ... for Harworth, Ollerton, Sherwood, Welbeck, Clipstone, Bilsthorpe and Creswell. Phone Rob Quincey Sherwood, Tony Wright Clipstone, Peter Thompson Harworth re conveyor info for 1in4 grades. Phone Philip Shaw Ollerton re boring at Boughton. Phone BGS re same ... STWA, 90m x 21cm. GE Marshall and Eddie Shorten and Alan Wilkinson re Course for ‘SM1’ 19th April. Discuss GE Marshall re second copy plans at Area HQ ... to make up this time then ozalofts for second copies and then exchange. To Thoresby ... R & FF plans and discuss Ian Wilson and Keith Jenkins about the Computer and Ian Shaw about staff. To Rescue Station ... exchanged Harworth and Thoresby R&FF plans. To Rufford ... SM1 for 206s. Discuss Andy Wells, David Archer and Vivian the Tracer. Office ... continued colouring demarcation plans. Discuss Tony Barnes various.

Mon 10 ... Office ... Colouring demarcation plans. Meeting GE Marshall, AR Barnes, EW Fretwell, TR Draper and I Burns ... general and update. Info from Ian Burns for tips. Similarly info from Andrew Higginson Civil Engineer. Continued colouring plans. Phone Steve Barnes Bevercotes re update. Phone Bill Fox Creswell re water figures. To Creswell ... checked over plan of surface with Bill Fox for British Rail and tip etc. With Gordon Froggatt Manager and Ted Giles Deputy Manager re various underground pumping and Langwith and Oxcroft water.

Tues 11 ... To Hucknall then to Babbington with Tony Barnes ... recalibrated plumb lines and measured No 5 shaft to the water and silt, assisted by David Peat Elec Engr ... 325m. Discuss Charlie Swinscoe Mech Engr various. To Hucknall ... recalibrated plumb line and measured shaft to water level assisted by David Peat ... 528m.

Wed 12 ... Office ... Phone Jim Charlesworth BGS re visits on 25 th April and 16 May. Phone Dick Bramley Calverton re Ian Shore started. PA Chambers DCME query re Bevercotes Top Hard to Parkgate Raise drill ‘missing the chamber’! Phone Steve Barnes re same. Went by the position last evening ... Manager agreed to bore past the 493 ft ... vent to 550 ft ... water coming out of roof nearby but not at the expected position. Query re survey accuracy? Filled in Bretby form re conveyors steeper than 1in4 checked by Tony Barnes. Inking in ‘Bruno’ colliery Precautions Against Inrushes plan ... Debbie to finish it off. To S & C, Pam ... returned note ... not ours. Phone Bevercotes ... Steve Barnes ... found the borehole ... 11 ft out of position ! Exchanged R&FF plans. Phone Peter Robinson Sutton various. To Ollerton ... checked over surface plan with Garry Hall for Valuation and discuss Philip Shaw ... list of questions ... located booklets. To Bilsthorpe ... exchanged second copy Working plans with Graham Kemp. Discuss Valuation with Geoff Austin. Phone Debbie re shaft query from Geoff Woods Estates ... Langwith No1. Second copy plans exchanged. Office ... Phone Graham Hall Bevercotes re borehole position etc. ... 11 ft 3 in and Autoplumb. Discuss same with PA Chambers.

Thurs 13 ... Office ... Phone Peter Thompson Harworth re auto plummet. SM1 plan for proposed Course. Phone GE Marshall re info on Bevercotes borehole update. To Staff Training dept ... discuss Alan Wilkinson. Sorted out plans. Checking squares on Valuation plan. Phone BGS to confirm visits for 26 April and 16 May. To Harworth ... second copy plans to date ... ozaloft copies taken. Discuss the Valuation exercise with Peter Thompson, Chris Shail, Eric Woss. Picked up Auto plummet. To Bevercotes ... second copy Working plans to date. Took ozalofts. Discuss Steve Barnes re the borehole. Graham Hall and Janet re plans.

Fri 14 ... To Mansfield ... Collected shaft fill book and section to take to office. Discuss John Danbury and the TV / Video Centre. To Rescue Station ... to exchange Sutton R&FF plans. Office ... continued with borehole exercise etc. Phone Steve Barnes Bevercotes re progress on borehole and also re Rating. Phone Peter Thompson re update copies for Bircotes O.S. Bob Draper info re boreholes etc. Mike Allen geologist re Harworth ‘take’. Jackie at Zenith phoned re Colliery Nos. Phone Geoff Austin Bilsthorpe. Phone Trevor Speed Blidworth. Phone and discuss GE Marshall re Precautions Against Inrushes in the Ashgate Rock at Rufford. Discuss Steve Lunnon geologist ... copy of report. Discuss Ian Gill geologist re Pjari Tropari ... sent back from Markham. Photocopies. Bob Butler Rep Hall & Watts brought back GKO-A again for Harworth. To Rescue Station ... to exchange Clipstone R & FF plans.

Mon 17 ... Office ... Phone Steve Barnes Bevercotes re borehole ... rod snapped! Meeting ... GE Marshall, AR Barnes, TR Draper, IR Burns. Colouring demarcation plans for the Valuation survey. Peter Daffin re send more Restoration plans. Phone Trevor Speed Blidworth ... shaft fill halfway and o.k. Phone Graham Walters re Progress plans at Welbeck. Paul Wilkinson same for Silverhill. Peter Robinson same for Sutton. Phone John Stapleton Cotgrave re same. Phone Rob Quincey Sherwood re same. Phone Bill Fox Creswell re water figures. To Welbeck ... check with John Walls on surface buildings. Discuss Graham Walters. Office... Phone Graham Hall Bevercotes re the borehole ... reamer fast in the hole ... snapped off ... to try to knock it down 110 ft. Also re ‘Jockey House’ Borehole report re Mike Allen geologist. I went to see Mike Allen ... the section was upside down ... April Fool joke! Because it was so important I was not amused! Phone Steve Barnes back ... need the Autoplumb. Colouring plans ... brought Welbeck forward instead of Ollerton for valuation. Phone Peter Thompson re want the Autoplumb.

Tues 18 ... Office ... colouring plans for Valuation. Phone Graham Hall Bevercotes re the drilling ... Raise drill bit recovered at the bottom of the hole. Discuss Tony Barnes re Babbington. Discuss GE Marshall re staff and valuation. To Bevercotes ... Valuation info. Discuss Graham Hall. Picked up Autoplumb. Phone Debbie ... to send demarcation plan. To Harworth ... took the Auto plumb and Kern GKO-A Level. Discuss Peter Thompson. Asked re 1/10000 negative. Office ... sorting out paper work for instruments. Colouring plans. Phone Bill Fox Creswell re water figures. To Moorgreen ... Meeting ... Alan Wilkinson and Roy Elliott.

Wed 19 ... To Moorgreen Training Centre ... Mentor for JEB examination questions.

Thurs 20 ... Office ... Ian Burns re tip plans for Valuation team. Also Andrew Higginson Civil Engr to check over. Peter Downing Deputy Civil Engr went through all plans and pits for British Rail demarcations. To Planning dept. Phone Tony Barnes re Linby abandonment date ... 1/9/1989. Phone Graham Hall Bevercotes re borehole update. To Clipstone ... updated second copy Working plans and discuss Tony Wright. Left plans for ozalofts. To send 1/10000 negatives. To Rufford ... updated second copy Working plans and discuss Andy Wells. Office ... phone John Stoddard British Rail re visits to Creswell, Welbeck and Sherwood ... to phone them. Phone Stas Watson Sherwood re borehole. GE Marshall re procedure for JEB exam preparation at Moorgreen Training Centre. Discuss all staff and potentials.

Fri 21 ... To Sherwood ... updated second copy Working plans. Discuss Tony Maddock and Vivian re second large diameter borehole not finished yet ... second attempt down. To Clipstone ...picked up ozaloft copies and left Rufford Low Main workings. Office ... Phone Ian Shaw Thoresby re DI 4 EDM borrowed from Bilsthorpe not working! Told Ian to phone Zenith. To Thoresby ... updated second copy Working plans. Discuss Ian Shaw. To Creswell ... updated second copy Working plans. Discuss Bill Fox, Peter Williams and Keith Banton. Phone Tony Barnes re Mansfield demarcation ... a 1/500 plan required for the Meeting. Gordon Froggatt Manager re Oxcroft / Langwith / Creswell water figures ... to check with PA Chambers as at Langwith more water as the level has not dropped. Office ... British Rail demarcation points put on 1/2500 surface plans.

Sat 22 ... To Mansfield ... 1/500 negative. Discuss John Payne Manager.

Mon 24 ... Office ... Meeting ... GE Marshall, AR Barnes, EW Fretwell, TR Draper, IR Burns. Sorted out surface 1/2500 plans into order for valuation ... some to finish off. Phone Steve Barnes Bevercotes re borehole ... still not finished. Also re Valuation info ... not finished yet! To Planning dept ... I signed Rufford 4s Blackshale Layout for Andy Vjestica planner. I signed Clipstone Deep Soft Layout for Steve Richardson planner. Discuss PA Chambers DCME re the water problems at Creswell / Langwith / Oxcroft. To Mansfield ... Picked up tackle. Discuss John Danbury Elec Engr. Control Room require shaft fill info ... the book has gone! Phone Debbie ... re to copy shaft info and send to Mansfield. To Sutton ... Picked up staff for Ian Tomlinson. To Silverhill ... to take ozaloft material and to check Valuation plan. Discuss John Nightingale and Graham Parker. To Sutton ... Dropped off trimming table. Office ... general.

Tues 25... To BGS Keyworth ... with Bob Draper, Mike Allen geologist and Tim Charesley, David Lowe ... Joint Liasion Meeting British Coal / BGS post Lofthouse Inquiry. (Graeme Marshall called in for a while).
Sutton ... shafts info. Cotgrave, Bevercotes, Ollerton, Thoresby, Welbeck, Calverton, Blidworth, Rufford.

Wed 26... Holiday to Fri 12 May

Peter Thompson retired.

May 1989

Mon 15 ... Office... Correspondence. Discuss Tony Barnes update. Meeting ... GE Marshall, AR Barnes, EW Fretwell, Steve Hill, TR Draper. Phone Rob Quincey Sherwood re underground borehole ... AMCO still struggling. Phone Harworth ... Karl Mitchell re Haigh Moor plans and reports. Phone Bevercotes re update. Phone Martin Davies Apprentice Ollerton re MQB exam and Office test. To Repository ...with Bob Draper ... checking through old roll plans ready for deposition at Mining Records Office, Newstead. To Ollerton ... took plan for Martin Davies and discuss. To Bevercotes ... discuss Ian Daykin re explosions in 7s Awcŵa Top Hard heading and subsequent stopping off. To Harworth ... checked through Abandonment plans and report for Haigh Moor seam. Peter Thompson had left. Arranged with Maria to get folders together.

Tues 16 ... To BGS Keyworth ... Joint Liaison British Coal / BGS. With Tim Charlesley and Dave ? ... examined Bilsthorpe and Harworth plans.

Wed 17 ... To Moorgreen Training Centre ... Mentor for 5 Groups ... ’Inrushes’ ... Colin Rose Mech Engineer, Tony Clarke Safety, Tony ? And Brian Stones Ventilation Tutor at Worksop Tech.

Thurs 18 ... Office ... Correspondence. R & FF plans. Discuss Graeme Marshall re Ollerton, Harworth, Thoresby, re possible Mini Power Stations ... Top secret! Also re staffing. Phone Ian Shaw Thoresby re staff, also re SM1 Parkgate 115s Z panel for 61s. Top Hard borehole... to check on info. With Bob Draper re same ... nothing. SM1 for Calverton also. Phone Graham Hall Bevercotes re explosions in Top Hard 7sA heading. Phone Bill Fox Creswell re various. Phone Tony Wright Clipstone re various and Inland Revenue Valuation. Phone Rob Quincey Sherwood various. Phone Graham Hall re Surface Observer’s Course. Info re PIs ... (Under sea and sealing of boreholes) for Bert Grime now with Caledonian Mining Co. To Creswell ... to take new underground staffs, 1 Holbrook and 1 Gees for Keith Banton. Checked with Keith re the exam. Discuss various. New carpet for office. To Bevercotes ... discuss various and Surface Observer’s Course information with Graham Hall and Steve Barnes re the Valuation. To Ollerton ... took a thermometer. Office ... Phone Andy Wells Rufford various and 45s Low Main advance. Phone Geoff Earnshaw, British Rail re same.

Fri 19 ... To Sherwood ... discuss Stas Watson and Carl Banton various and the revaluation plans. To Mansfield ... discuss John Danbury’s re update position. Paul Grimshaw Surface Superintendent gave me the Tip books. To Clipstone ... took the Tip books and discuss Tony Wright and Hadi Al Rekabi and revaluation plans. Office ... Correspondence. Query is Blidworth T2 theodolite available? Writing up notes on Joint Liaison Meeting British Coal and BGS. Phone Mike Allen geologist various. Discuss Wendy Wain Zenith ... brought T2 theodolite back. Phone Dave Clarke Mining Records re possibility of getting Opencast Executive boreholes in the Upper Meden Valley ... to investigate. Phone David Archer Rufford reprinting machine transferred from Mansfield. To check up on tackle at Blidworth. I signed Creswell Top Hard to 1in4 drift 8 ft dia borehole plan and also P15s Layout plan for Tim Colyer planner. Discuss Graeme Marshall re Apprentices. Tim Colyer again, I signed extension to 42s to the fault. Discussed P15s proposal. Discuss Tony Barnes. Phone Martin Bradder planner re possible extension into Pleasley shaft pillar for Sherwood 304s Blackshale? To Mansfield ... update.

Mon 22 ... Office ... Meeting GE Marshall, AR Barnes, EW Fretwell, TR Draper, IR Burns ... update. Discuss Bob Draper and Eric Fretwell. Phone Trevor Speed re update at Blidworth. Discuss Tony Barnes and Ian Burns re ‘Running of the department’. Phone Ian Shaw Thoresby re AGA 110 for Creswell. Phone Billy Ellison Creswell re T2 theodolite and AGA 110 EDM. Discuss Graeme Marshall re exam results from Doncaster Tech ... excellent. To Blidworth ... checking over Abandonment plans and reports with Trevor Speed. Discuss Tony Barnes. Discuss Mark Wright and Martin Davies re Surveyor’s exam. Office ... picked up AGA 14 and T2 theodolite. To Thoresby ... checked on the AGA 110 ... o.k. With Tony Nicholson ... checking distances. Office ... discuss Tony Barnes re same. Checking Creswell P15s Layout. Phone Dave Clarke Mining Records re Opencast boreholes in the Meden Valley ... no record as yet.

Tues 23 ... Retirement Course at Lound Hall ... Day 1

Wed 24 ... Retirement Course at Lound Hall ... Day 2

Thurs 25 ... Retirement Course at Lound Hall ... Day 3

Fri 26 ... Office... Correspondence. Saw Martin Davies and Mark Wright re Surveyor’s Practical exam. Phoned Creswell ... Keith Banton on holiday. Andy Vjestica planner re Rufford Yard / Blackshale Layout. I needed to complete the check list yet. Checked over with Bob Draperthen signed the plan. Info to Tony Barnes. To Repository ...to fetch boxes for Mansfield records. To Mansfield with Ian Shore ... clearing out the office and boxing plans for Mansfield, Hucknall / Babbington ... more to finish. Office ... brought in Mansfield Tip plan negatives.

Mon 29 ... Bank Holiday

Tues 30 ... Office ... Correspondence ... Phone Keith Banton Creswell re Surveyor’s exam. Meeting ... GE Marshall, EW Fretwell, TR Draper, IR Burns (Tony Barnes on holiday). Phone Steve Barnes Bevercotes re opening up 7sA Top Hard heading over the weekend plus Mon afternoon and evening (after the explosions). Thanked them for their work also from Graeme Marshall. He and I chose the short list for Harworth Suveyor post. Phone Gary Bardill Opencast re borehole info. Took the signed plan of Rufford Yard / Blackshale to Andy Vjestica. Tim Colyer planner re Creswell Threequarter Layout and signed that. Phone Malcolm Clarke planner re Creswell Strategic Plan script ... sent. Amendments to Harworth surface demarcation plan ... Celia. Phone Graeme Marshall various and update. Phone Billy Ellison re visit tomorrow. To Mansfield ... sorted out plans etc with John Danbury. Passed keys to Bill Steele? ex Manager Markham working for Mining Systems Ltd. Office... print of Meden Valley pits ... Sue. Meeting ... DS Crisp ... I outlined Annesley pipeline, Thoresby sand and gravel, Blidworth tip wash and T & C P and Clipstone demarcation. Discuss John Daniels Manager Clipstone. Phone 3 times Graeme Marshall. Phone Gary Bardill Opencast ... phone Guy ? at Opencast Office Cinderhill re boreholes in the Meden Valley ... sent a 6 inch scale plan. Phone Graeme Marshall re expenses ... to claim lunch. To Clipstone ... amended the demarcation plan.

Wed 31 ... Office ... Phone Chris Shail Harworth re Haigh Moor plans ... o.k. Amended Clipstone 1 and 2 demarcation plans ... Celia. Discuss GE Marshall update. Phone Peter Robinson Sutton re old workings. Phone Dave Clarke Mining Records. To Bilsthorpe ... to collect plans for Valuers and discuss Geoff Austin, Graham Kemp and Graham Millward. To Creswell ... met Graeme Marshall and talked over Strategic plan info. Also the water problem with Bill Fox. Discuss Keith Banton Surveyor’s Practical exam questions. Discuss Peter Williams re job with China Clay Co Cornwall. Phone Trevor Speed at Blidworth ... his last day. Office ... checked over demarcation plans ... Celia. Letters re BGS visits ... Sue took to Typing. Old shaft info re Babbington to Bob Draper. Located an old negative, made by me, of the New Inn Level for Peter Robinson. Phone Garry Hall Ollerton re 34s face head in relation to proposed stopping in 33s Loader Gate due to fall on face line re TN Burke Manager and SM1 ... to notify HMI. Phone David Archer Rufford re rip restoration. Graeme Marshall re phone call from PA Chambers re demarcation plans. To see PA Chambers re Alan Houghton N Derby’s Deputy Director Mining re signing demarcation plans ! (I muted that they did not understand surface demarcation and thought it was like an underground demarcation point between 2 collieries). To Subsidence dept ... sorting through old Ordnance Survey plans.

June 1989

Thurs 1 ... To Mansfield ... update and info. To Rufford ... checking restoration area on pit tip with Andy Wells. Office ... gathering info together for Valuation plans. Discuss Bob Draper. Sorting out colours etc. and continued trimming Mansfield tip photos. Discuss GE Marshall various and Theme Park also Sherwood re subsidence. Coloured Rufford restoration plans. Peter Daffin re other collieries for restored areas. Phone Graham Walters Welbeck BACM Rep re number of Surveyors leaving. Phone Paul Clarke Maintenance re roll plan from Repository to go to Newstead Mining Records Office. Also to take some boxes from Blidworth. Phone John Stapleton Cotgrave re visit for tip areas etc. Phone Richard Clarke Gedling same and also Mark Stevenson Calverton same. Phone Mike Dimbleby O.S. Nottingham re Center Parcs ‘flown photos’ and could produce a plan ... price £400 or a SUSI due later in the year ... so I accepted the SUSI (Special Unpublished Survey Information). PA Chambers re Linby closure letters to HMI ... the last one is not necessary. Phone Eric Fretwell re meeting at Sherwood re subsidence ... £2,000 per house ... 500 for each panel = £1 million ... serious! 

Fri 2 ... Office ... Phone Peter Robinson Sutton re plan of New Inn Level ... found the negative and 1/1250 surface O.S. Plan. Checking Lofthouse disaster report and info for Graeme Marshall. Discuss Ian Burns Environment and Steve Hill Subsidence re Ollerton ... sewage discharge via old culvert ... when and how? To Gedling ... discuss Richard Clarke re tip restoration areas etc and checked over the plan for Valuation. To Calverton ... discuss Dick Bramley re tip restoration and checked over plan for Valuation similarly. Office ... Sue Unsworth re copies for Gedling plan and Stoke Bardolph. Phone Graham Hall Bevercotes re progress on 7sA Top Hard heading (after opening up after explosions). Phone Graeme Marshall re Interviews for Harworth Surveyor post. Phone Bill Tonks Vent dept re possible info on methane boreholes for Rufford Low Main ... he was to check.

Mon 5 ... Office ... Correspondence. Meeting ... GE Marshall, AR Barnes (back from hols), EW Fretwell, TR Draper and IR Burns ... policy etc. ... I am now in charge of all practical surveying and plans for Nottinghamshire Area and ad hoc jobs also. For Gyro ... to hold teach ins. Also demarcation plans. Phone John Danbury Elec Engr Mansfield who requests a plan of the location of the Field well. To Clipstone ... discuss John Cranham various. To Mansfield ... took plans for John Danbury re Field well. To Rescue Station ... to exchange Ollerton R & FF plans. To Sherwood ... discuss Rob Quincey Valuation report etc. Discuss Stas Watson various. Office ... discuss Tony Barnes Clipstone demarcation with reference to Geoff Woods Deputy Estates Manager.

Tues 6 ... Office ... discuss Graeme Marshall various. Sorting out Mansfield tip plans with Ian Shore into sets for each year. Phone Mansfield Control Room ... message for John Payne Manager re plans are ready. Discuss Graeme Marshall again various and updates. Signed BGS reports. Phone Philip Shaw Ollerton re Martin Davies exams. Phone Cotgrave re Michael Sheldon ... he was underground. Phone John Walls Welbeck re Darren Moody, underground. Rang back ... had passed exams. Phone MQB / JEB Doncaster re send copies of exam papers. Phone Eric Woss Harworth re whether to contact HMI ... no! Betty in Vent dept re info on old methane holes at Rufford ... also re gas outbursts and downbores. Sent out BGS reports to all collieries. To Sutton ... to take plans of old pits. Discuss Peter Robinson same also re tackle in the store. Discuss Mike Parker re Computer ... Sketch part not working correctly.

Wed 7 ... Office ... discuss Graeme Marshall various. Phone Steve Leavesley Rufford re found info re methane boreholes. Phone Stas Watson Sherwood re borehole for ventilation ... both completed. Phone Steve Barnes Bevercotes re boreholes ... no progress ... rekitting 7sA heading. Phone Garry Hall Ollerton re Martin Davies ... to start back 19/7/1989. Phone John Payne Manager Mansfield re tip plans are ready ... to inform HMI. Phone Michael Mottram Staff dept re Apprentice Darren Moody ... date for Doncaster. To see Andrew Higginson Civil Engr re Mansfield No1 tip info ... copy of Reg 18 for folder. Discuss Ian Shaw Thoresby re Chris Farr ... ‘a bit uppish’! Phone Ian Revill Annesley re info for Valuation. To Rufford ... took info from Area Ventilation dept on gas emissions and down bores. Checked over Blackshale 3s SM1 with Andy Wells. Phone Tony Wright Clipstone ... pick up plans on Fri. To Blidworth ... discuss Ian Orgill various and checked on tackle and inventory. Office ... info to Mick Flintham Subsidence dept re old shafts and working shafts and booklet. With Bob Draper ... checking Working rights and Notices ... for Abbeyfields, Newstead ... missed by Tony Barnes. Phone Ian Shaw re Ian Orgill. Graham Walters Welbeck with SM1 ... to Ventilation dept then to see Graeme Marshall.

Thurs 8 ... Office ... Correspondence. Phone Ian Revill Annesley re surface plan for Woodside Pumping Station ... o.k. 1/2500. Phone Dave Clarke Mining Records re Mansfield tip plans ... what is required ? To see Jack. ? In Photographic to take 1/2 plate negs of 1987 negs. To Ollerton ... updated second copy plan negatives. Discuss Garry Hall. Office ... phone Geoff Woods Estates re 2 copies of Mansfield demarcation, one for J Payne Manager. Phil Critchley Subsidence dept re Main Bright plan for Sherwood workings ... in set of exchange tracings from Central Area.
To Funeral of Roy Boaler, friend and neighbour (died June 2). Office ... Eric Fretwell re system for sending in 1/10000 negatives in future. Phoned all pits with regard to sending in an copy on 1/10000 with contours ... reminded some ... confirmed quarter dates with others. Phone Central Area ... John ? Re SK57SW Main Bright workings from Shirebrook ... he will send same. Phone Roger Andrew re Oxcroft water ... no update ... he would find out. Copies of 3 sheets for all pits for update on instrument holding and condition etc. Discuss Tony Barnes re Welbeck Deep Soft borehole SM1 ... needs a scheme of work.

Fri 9 ... Office ... discuss Malcolm Clarke planner various. Drafted out letter to go with forms to all pits for inventory of survey equipment. Phone Tony Wright Clipstone ... plans and info for Valuer ... Mon afternoon. Phone Peter Chatterton Rufford ... info ready for collection and also SM1 for Blackshale 3s. Phone George Simms Annesley re Working plans? from photographs. To Photographic ... re Brookhill plans ... 35mm to do. Also Mansfield tip plans 1/2 plates for 1988. To Repository ... with Bob Draper ... loaded up approx. 30 roll plans for Mining Records Office plus 2 to call for at Blidworth. Phone Ian Orgill re same. To Annesley ... with Ian Revill ... went over all 4 plans of surface for Valuation plus checked the script. Discuss George Simms various. To Rufford ... to pick up SM1 form for Blackshale 3s plus Vent dept info. Office... discuss Tony Barnes re Working Rights and Notices that have been missed ... also re Rufford Yard / Blackshale Railway Notice! Group Meeting ... DS Crisp Operations Manager.

Mon 12... Office ... Phone Peter Toone re info about Harworth re possible interview. Meeting GE Marshall, AR Barnes, EW Fretwell, TR Draper, IR Burns. To Planning dept ... re Strategic plan for Harworth with Malcolm Clarke. Mick Flintham Subsidence re South Notts. 1/10000 plan. Discuss Tony Barnes re same ... to send in new. Ian Burns re Rufford ‘Desert’ and motorbikes. Bob Draper discuss various and rationalisation. Anne to make scales. Peter Daffin and Bob Saunders Estates re Annesley / Bentinck tip restoration. Letters for all collieries re redundant survey equipment and inventories. To Planning dept re Thoresby Strategic plan with Martin Bradder. Phone Ian Orgill Blidworth re application. Discuss Tony Barnes re Welbeck demarcation ... need a meeting! Discuss Mike Pope Deputy Area Staff aged re ‘Levelling option’ when made redundant ... new thoughts. To Clipstone ... picked up Valuation plans and info and discuss Tony Wright. To Welbeck ... with Ray Timmons Estates and Gordon C Harris Deputy Manager and David Snowcill Surface Superintendent re check Manager’s demarcation and in particular regarding the Open Day and parking etc. Office ... Correspondence.

Tues 13 ... Office ... continued with correspondence. With Eric Fretwell ...cleaned out drawer re all exchange plans with other Areas ... to do downstairs in future. To Creswell ... with Ian Shore. Took plans re Whitwell for Bill Fox. Discuss also with Billy Ellison, Peter Williams and Keith Banton various. Office ... Discuss Peter Toone Asfordby re Harworth Strategic plan etc.

Wed 14 ... to Bilsthorpe ... Valuation with Keith Lumsden and Mike Gallagher Mineral Valuers. Talk by David Baldwin Manager. Surface with Bob Gillott Surface Superintendent and Coal Prep Plant and Geoff Woods Deputy Area Estates and Robert Orgill Estates and Mike Gallagher ... viewed all surface buildings and installations. Lunch. Continued on Coal Preparation Plant with Mike Gallagher, Bob Gillott and Robert Orgill. General discussion. To Bevercotes ... to pick up Ian Shoreand Celia (plans required by HMI Gilmour). Discuss Steve Barnes. Office ... discuss Stas Watson re interview for Harworth ... Bobby Watson Manager. Discussed Graeme Marshall update. Took Central Area print of Main Bright at Shirebrook to Phil Critchley in Subsidence dept.

Thurs 15 ... to Bilsthorpe ... Valuation continued. Underground ... with Dick Procter Assistant Undermanager and Keith Lumsden and Graham Kemp Deputy Surveyor. To 106s Low Main and Dosco Motorway start heading. Lunch ... Discuss Chris Daniels Assistant Manager Services. Afterwards discuss various. To get list of people’s names. Office ... phone Tony Clarke Safety Engr re new HSC Mines Management and Administration for Health and Safety Regulations and Approved Codes of Practice. To Safety dept discuss Terry Camm and Tony Wright. Copies of document. Discuss Celia various. Phone Rob Quincey Sherwood re Valuation plans.

Fri 16 ... Office ... continued with new legislation document. Discuss same Graeme Marshall and Tony Barnes. Correspondence. To Sherwood ... to pick up Valuation info. Discuss various with Rob Quincey, Stas Watson and Carl Banton SM1 for 112s Area ... suggest 2 or 3 panels at a time only. To Blidworth ... with Ian Orgill ... sorted through 2500 plans ready for disposal. Office ... discuss Bob Draper re new proposed legislation.

Mon 19 ... Office ... Correspondence. Student Chris Clewley Civil Engineer various. To Mansfield ... to see demolition and take plan for John Payne Manager. To Clipstone ... discuss Tony Wright and info for Valuer. Office ... Meeting 11am ... GE Marshall, AR Barnes, EW Fretwell, TR Draper and IR Burns. Phone Rob Quincey Sherwood re info for Valuation. Phone Ian Revill and Richard Pearson Annesley re info for Valuation. Phone Graham Parker Silverhill same and also re interview for Harworth. Phone Graham Walters Welbeck re demarcation plan. Phone John Walls Welbeck re interview. Phone Martin Davies Ollerton re news? To Blidworth ... sorting out. Discuss Ian Orgill, Mark Wright. Also Trevor Speed called in. Discuss Colin Stocks Manager re various and old Student Magazine with Blidworth shafts and water in 1925.
Fire on railway bank at Mansfield.

Tues 20 ... Office ... Phone HMI M Bottomley re to go to Blidworth on Fri instead of Wed ... o.k. Phone Chris Shail Harworth re various. Phone Trevor Speed re Frinstead of Wednesday ... o.k. Phone Stas Watson re instrument repair. Phone Andy Wells Rufford re Deputies on strike Mon and Tues. Phone Geoff Austin Bilsthorpe re various. Phone Bill Fox re Ian Shore. Phone Mike Gallagher Mineral Valuer re various and fan evasee at Bilsthorpe. Phone Leeds Office ... no reply. Phone water figures to Creswell. Phone Garry Hall Ollerton re SM1 to pick up. Phone Blidworth Admin Officer re HMI M Bottomley visit. Discuss Tony Barnes re new Regulations, Discuss Dennis Roebuck Safety Engr re same. Discuss Graeme Marshall same. To Ollerton ... discuss Garry Hall and picked up SM1 form for 18s Parkgate. Office ... copies of Rufford 3s Blackshale and Bevercotes 104s Low Waterloo SM1s and to Registry. Phone Peter Chatterton Rufford re state of 208s Yard / Blackshale ... poor! ... Deputies still on strike. Info for abandonment. Phone Graham Parker Silverhill re Valuation plans. Discuss Graeme Marshall Clipstone subsidence and Boughton Pumping Station letter from Legal dept. To Clipstone ... info for tomorrow.

Wed 21 ... Office ... Correspondence. To Clipstone ... Valuation. Talk by John Daniels Manager. To surface tips and buildings with George Kilburn, Mike Gallagher. Lunch ... continued. Phone Geoff Austin Bilsthorpe re fan evasee sizes for valuation. Phone office ... Phone re exam results ... Keith Banton and Mark Davies passed.

Thurs 22 ... Office ... Ollerton 18s Parkgate SM1 to DS Widdowson Operations Manager. Phone Ian Orgill Blidworth re Monday visit by HMI. Also Mark Wright re exam. To Clipstone ... Valuation. Underground to 68s Low Main with Keith Lumsden Valuer, Paul Lomax Acting Undermanager and Roger Trueman Deputy Manager (ex Mansfield). Lunch. Phone Bill Fox Creswell re Keith Banton ... not turned up. To Sherwood ... discuss Rob Quincey, Stas Watson and Carl Banton. Picked up Auxiliary Fan Rules for signing. Office ... discuss Bob Draper various. Discuss update Graeme Marshall and Tony Barnes. To Ventilation dept with Sherwood Auxiliary Fan Rules. To S & C ... Pam re enquiry re Ollerton GKO-A Level ... in May from Wild Leitz Kern. Discuss Graeme Marshall and Tony Barnes re Mansfield surface plan for HMI. Also re Apprentices and RICS. Ian Shore to go to Creswell.

Fri 23 ... Office ... sorted out Mansfield tip plans. Discuss Tony Barnes. Phone Civil Engrs re Rufford ‘desert’ ... no reply. To Blidworth ... sorting out office equipment and plans etc. with Ian Orgill and Mark Wright. Phone Dave Clarke Mining Records Newstead re No for Blidworth tip ... ST / 42. Discuss Colin Stocks Manager. To Mansfield ... left message with Nobby Clarke Overman for John Payne Manager re HMI visit Monday. To Clipstone ... took Mansfield tip overlay of proposed contours. Office ... discuss Graeme Marshall update and Mark Wright failed exam. Graeme phoned Ted Watkin Area Surveyor Western who was the examiner ... got 53%. Discuss Bob Draper and Mick Flintham.

Mon 26 ... Office ... discuss Mark Wright ... to start at Area HQ. Ian Burns re Mansfield tip plan ... obtained ozalofts for 1988. To Blidworth ... with HMI Malcolm Bottomley, Trevor Speed (came), Ian Orgill and Colin Stocks Manager ... checking over and discuss abandonment plans for Abdy / Brinsley and High Hazles. Also Blidworth tip plans. Also took Mansfield tip plans and demarcation for Washery etc. to HMI Ken Tyldesley. Lunch at Bird in Hand with Trevor Speed and Ian Orgill. Then discuss Colin Stocks Manager. Sorting out tackle with Ian Orgill. Phone Graham Hall Bevercotes, Garry Hall Ollerton, John Cranham Clipstone, David Archer Rufford, Bill Fox Creswell and Billy Ellison at home ... all regarding tackle requirements. Office ... took Blidworth plans to Jack ? in Photographic. Discuss update Tony Barnes.

Tues 27 ... To Ollerton ... to take plan envelopes. To Thoresby... to take plan envelopes. Office ... phone Dave Clarke Mining Records re plans. To Mansfield ... to pick up record boxes. To Blidworth ... continued clearing out office with Ian Orgill. To Mining Records Newstead ... to take Mansfield tip plans ST / 41 and to stamp all Blidworth tip plans and reference same EM / ST / 42. To Bestwood Records Office ... Beryl and Sheila ... took Mansfield, Hucknall and Blidworth boxes. To Mining Records Newstead ... to pick up plans. To Blidworth ... continued clearing out.

Wed 28 ... Office ... with plans from Blidworth. Exchanged Bilsthorpe R & FF plans. To Sherwood ... Valuation ... with Graham Fyles and George Kilburn Valuer. Talk by Mick Orchiston Manager. Surface visit to all buildings with George Kilburn Valuer, Geoff Woods Deputy Estates Manager, Robert Orgill Estates, Surface Superintendent and Rob Quincey Surveyor. Lunch. Discuss Graham Fyles. Surface ... visit to the tip. Sherwood Office ... Phone Keith Banton Creswell re ‘holiday’. Discuss Stas Watson and Carl Banton. To Clipstone ... to take ex Mansfield tip books (3217) ... discuss Tony Wright. Discuss John Cranham new computer. 

Thurs 29 ... To Sherwood ... Valuation. Underground visit to 304s Blackshale with David Slater Undermanager and George Kilburn Valuer and Robert Orgill Estates. Phone Peter Davies Mech Engr Area. Discuss over lunch. Phone John Rigley Lindhurst Engineering re problem. Office ... discuss Graeme Marshall and Tony Barnes re Valuation exercise. Correspondence. Phone Steve Leavesley Rufford re 208s Yard / Blackshale.

Fri 30 ... To Blidworth ... with Ian Orgill ... organised tackle for re-distribution. To Bestwood Records Office ... with Bob Draper, Beryl and Sheila. Cleared out the safe of all old plans and documents. Office ... Discuss same Graeme Marshall. Unloaded plans etc. for checking over for AR Barnes. Farewell Party for Trevor Hartshorn Business Planning and Isobel Planning dept. Bernie Ryan tracer left. Phone Geoff Austin Bilsthorpe.