English Accents and Dialects by Arthur Hughes

Author:Arthur Hughes
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781134663880
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2012-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

The tramlines…ah, they used to have, erm…from the pit there used to be a tramline right to the top of the mountain…used to work on a, a pulley sort of system, I should think. I was too young to know then. They used to have about fifteen to twenty big pit drams on this 5 wire rope, and I would say it must have stretched, bottom to top, about three and a half, maybe four miles, and of course we’d winch up on it, pulled up, cos all the kids would be running up, jumping on. And, er, I would say, well, there was one boy, how old is Gerin? Must be about thirty-eight. He’s…jumped on and he fell off and it 10 cut his leg clean off. But they’re big metal drams, they weigh in…well, they must weigh about a ton with nothing in them. So you can imagine when they’re full. And of course when they come down the journey again, they’re coming down at a fair speed, cos they let them go down quite a bit and then they got the…an automatic brake, I 15 think, it slows them down. And they used to come down there. We used to jump on them on the top, and ride down. Things you do when you’re young …

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.