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Hello. I'm better known as Terry Jones. I have lived on the Holden Hall Estate for 54 years and worked at Easington Colliery for 32 years. During my time at Easington I became Chairman of the NUM Enginemen and served in this capacity for 20 years, serving on a number of committees such as Consultative, Colliery Housing, Safety (also Safety Inspector) Aged Miners and Welfare. Also at Easington, all the unions combined to raise funds for the local doctors to buy a portable ECG machine and a Fetal Heart machine - we achieved our target and I was also elected Chairman of this fund. On the union side I served on the Area Executive, twice as representative for "number one ward collieries" - these were Blackhall, Horden, Easington and Muton. Since I was made redundant people have still been coming to me for advice on all kinds of subjects and I have done my best to help them. When the Residents' Association was formed on our estate I was elected to the position of Chairman for a full year. During this time I was asked to represent the tenants and disabled on the group that was formed to keep open the road to Warren House Dene that the County Council wanted to close - we did win our fight!