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Jim Slaughter's Narrative History:Girder's Spare Jobs
"Now our job was.... well, you can imagine. It's much harder working with stone than it is working with coal - much
heavier. It was reckoned to be one of the heaviest jobs in the pit and in the main gate where we worked, the first
thing you had to do was shut the, what they called the 'bottom canch'. That was to fill the stone away to allow the
engine ends of the two face belts to be placed. The shift following had to take the top canch down to put the ten
foot girders in. And there were odd times when you finished probably half an hour early. You could negotiate a spare
job for a little bit of extra money. The deputy would probably ask you to pop down the face and drill a few holes.
The driller hadn't getten finished, bring some timber in, bring some girders in. You'd do anything for money then.
Anything to get that little extra bit money. Wet money, if you were working in wet conditions. The daily rate was one
and eleven pence!"
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