Local Appeal Tribunal case file for Harry Spibey, aged 58, Ripper at [colliery not stated] Date of birth: 01/11/1897 Marital status: Married Address: 65 Beauvale Drive, Ilkeston Type of benefit claimed: Special Hardship Allowance Type of injury: Injury - leg Further information: Case goes back to 1950. Whilst walking to the pit bottom he slipped and fractured right leg. Medical Appeal Tribunal 12 January 1954 awarded 8 per cent disablement loss of faculty for life. Local Appeal Tribunal adjourned; 'No attendance or communication from claimant' written on Tribunal sheet. By this time claimant had returned to his work as a ripper, having had light work as a Salvage Man in the meantime. 1956