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In 1953 our small Hamlet of Carr Green held the Queens Coronation celebrations in the Pit Pony Field.
We held game and a party, all us children were presented with a Coronation Brass Money Box and a Five-Bob coin.
During the celebrations it was announced that Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norge had conquered Mount Everest.
My granddad said that George Mallory and Sandy Irvine climbed Mount Everest on June the 9th 1924, and that they climbed it wearing "Pit Booits boots", Mallory and Irvine's boots were fitted with metal Coxes.
From that day all us kids in Carr Green became mountain climbers and we did too, we conquered all the sides of the pit muck stacks.
The colliery used to dump cast away colliery boots clogs and other bits and bobs in the colliery dump near to Carr Green.
We kids found all our climbing equipment in that dump.
Looking at the aerial pictures brings back to mind all the good old days of yesteryear. '