Reply to post: Re: "Nokia said China would receive it first" @disembodied John Brown

Re: "Nokia said China would receive it first" @disembodied John Brown

"The North East used to have many coal mines,"

Having been born, bred, raised and still live in the NE a few miles from what is now only "the site of" Westoe Pit, what was one of the UKs "superpits", I can only say "whoooosh!"

(For clarification, after most of the pits shut down, coal, mainly from Australia (Newcastle, I think), was shipped into the Tyne, hence the reversal of the "joke".