Monday 13th August 2018



On the canal guide maps there is a colliery marked on the east side of the canal between Trentham and Stoke-on-Trent although now there is nothing but scrub land, waste land.

This morning I asked a guy about this and he told me it used to be the site Trentham (Hem Heath) Colliery. At almost 3500 feet deep, it was the 3rd deepest coal mine in the country which produced over 1 million tons of coal and employed 1790 men at its peak in 1979. It closed in 1993. It is hard to be believe such a place ever existed today.
God Bless Maggie Thatcher and grant us that one day we all be allowed to piss on her grave.












The site of Trentham Colliery today














       





Nowadays, and for many years, there are plans afoot to build housing on the site but local petitions repeatedly call for the protection of their “meadow” site. Just as well the people organising the petition didn’t live here prior to the closure of the pit.

We walked the mile to visit Trentham Gardens which we had heard so much about. I was a bit pissed to find it is another, albeit posh and expensive, retail outlet. The gardens themselves would have cost us £12 entry each. Birkenhead Park is free and we get a different garden to view every night anyway, so we didn’t go into the gardens. Felt a bit robbed. A visit was the whole reason we moored here.

Retruned back to the boat and did a few jobs. Brenda finished another porthole bung, so both of them in the bedroom now match.

I investigated the TV more. It turns out either the co-axial cable between the booster box in the bedroom is defective or the connections are wrong.

Moving on to Stone tomorrow and we are both looking forward to moving again.

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