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desmo11225 · 14-10-2015, 13:40

Hello Every One
I have just joined your forum !!!! I worked in the mines during the war starting January 1940 at 14 years and one month, leaving when the Essential Works Order was with drawn in 1950, I was the first of my family not work under ground [I only worked on the surface]
It seems a terrible shame to me that we only want to get the coal out to burn it, nothing else, Dr Bronowski [Not sure of the spelling] was able to make all kinds of uses from coal, Paint, Chemicals of all kinds, even saccharin, sweetener. Why has'nt more research gone into making these priceless products from it, surely young people could come up with some wonderful ideas now that would save the industry before it's gone all together. Any modern thoughts on that idea. Regards desmo11225

14-10-2015, 13:40	#33
desmo11225 Inactive Join Date: Oct 2015 Posts: 1	Re: Should the coal mines in the UK be reopened? Hello Every One I have just joined your forum !!!! I worked in the mines during the war starting January 1940 at 14 years and one month, leaving when the Essential Works Order was with drawn in 1950, I was the first of my family not work under ground [I only worked on the surface] It seems a terrible shame to me that we only want to get the coal out to burn it, nothing else, Dr Bronowski [Not sure of the spelling] was able to make all kinds of uses from coal, Paint, Chemicals of all kinds, even saccharin, sweetener. Why has'nt more research gone into making these priceless products from it, surely young people could come up with some wonderful ideas now that would save the industry before it's gone all together. Any modern thoughts on that idea. Regards desmo11225