I received these two photographs from Colin Davies, son of William (Bill) Davies. Bill was an overman at Thornley Colliery and when the pit closed he took redundancy in 1969 and went to work at the Aladdin flask factory in Hartlepool but he was never happy there. He got a job with the Coop funeral cars with Dick Speckman. He worked for one day ....came home, had a heart attack  and died in his sleep in 1973.

This photograph shows Bill with Dick Speckman and also Ken Hetherington on a trip to London with the Boys Brigade