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  1. Jim MacPherson

    Mining etymology perhaps

    It has been suggested that the term "busty" relating to (coal?) mining means friend/friendly/companionable that kind of idea. There are some mines eg Morrison Busty near Stanley and a/some seam(s) of coal exploited in pits eg Esh Winning and Hamsterley (River Derwent) use the word. Does anyone...
  2. Jim MacPherson

    AditNow vanished?

    Yesterday and today I now get a HTTP Error 404 if I try to access the rump of the website, happens on Chrome , Firefox and Edge so not a browser related problem. Has anyone else got this issue or is Simon just picking on me? Nothing on AditNow facebook site about any problems. Jim
  3. Jim MacPherson

    Cleveland Ironstone mining

    My brother sent this link the other day, fills 10 minutes of quiet time. https://www.yfanefa.com/record/18160 It's (note use of apostrophe) rather good once you ignore the bloke's voice over, it is ( :tease: ) from the Yorkshire Film Archive, so may well be somewhere on AditNow as well, but I...
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