An engine tenter was the guy who looked after the engine - as in
tended it. Apart from the 'other county', the term was widely used in
God's County too.
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Mike Gill
President and Recorder of the NORTHERN MINE RESEARCH SOCIETY
Britain's foremost mining history society at:-
http://www.exeter.ac.uk/~RBurt/MinHistNet/NMRS.html
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