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Jim Slaughter's Narrative History:Walking Down the Inbye
"Then at that time, we walked a good hour and a half's walk before we got to wor place of work. You know where
Sheepwash Bridge is? You go along the Pegswood Road...or the road to Newcastle� and you come to... it was down that
way. And we were working approximately under Sheepwash Bridge. But, you could probably walk it in three quarters of
a hour on the surface here, but down the pit you had to keep stopping, but it was very, it got warmer, that's a thing.
On your way 'inbye', what you used to do, you used to get about half a mile inbye, and you'd take your coat off,
just hang it up. They had nails knocked into the wood. Hang your coat up. You're walking another half mile, you take
your pullover. You needed these coming out, because as you came out it got colder and colder, and you were lathered
with sweat, but as you were going in, you got warmer and warmer, so you gradually took everything�So by the time
you got you your place of work, you'd just have a vest on, and your 'hoggers', knee-pads, and you used to stop,
probably, twice on the way in. You were allowed to smoke then, and funnily enough, even when it stopped, for a
long time, men still smoked."
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