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Dave Walsh
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Sutton Manor Colliery St Helens
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Sutton Manor was one of the largest pits in the Lancashire Coalfield, with the deepest shaft was 2343 ft this video was shot by one of the miners just before it closed in 1991 Started in 1906 no.1 shaft with a diameter of 18 feet was sunk by local coal proprietor Richard Evans. This was completed in December 1909 when the shaft was extended to a depth of 1,823 feet. The sinking of no.2 shaft at...
Gillies Hill Limestone Mine
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the long wade in along main adit - flooded mine entrance
Was shown around this colliery in 1989 and have a large collection of photos of this mine. Only thing left is the gates, now a park.
People see these coal mines in rose tinted glasses, but they were loosing hundreds of thousands of pounds a year, they didn’t have a future that’s a fact !!!
It was impressive standing next to con rods on the steam winder, happy days.
As a kid I used to live a couple of minutes walk from this colliery and was living there when the infamous Miners strike was going on back in the mid-80s. I remember the picket lines outside it.
Such a shame St.Helens has ended up in the state its in today, badly let down and sold out by the likes of Pilks and government policy. Heroin, alcohol and despair replaced well paid industrial jobs and trades. Very sad
Spent my childhood exploring the coal hills & got a chase off the coalboard van. I remember jumping on the coal trains aswel. Great days they was. I'm a regular walker over the dream now an look back with fond memories of the coal mine era....
Went for a walk up there yesterday, beautiful place, hard to imagine all the hard work that used to go on there.
This would scare the absolute bejeezus out of Millennials.
Yes it would scare them shitless because to them burger king is a hard enough job
What did they do with the water after they washed the coal?
All the old industries gone in st Helen's I bet they sold all the machines for scrap nothing is built to last these days
St Helens is a great example of how big business, EU/governmental policy and town planning can annihilate a thriving industrial town!
Thanks Dave great film, and a sad loss of jobs and community.
Is the dream the shaft ? Went for a walk up there earlier and its hard to imagine it being as busy as this. Is it on a hill because of the landfill used to fill it all ?
Is the steamengine preserved ?
no 2 is in Austrlia
@@anthonymcdonnell5384 have you any idea whereabouts been looking for it on tinternet can't find it regards chris
@@chrispritchard3775 sorry no
All gone. It's absolutely criminal. We're siting on a thousand years of coal reserves and we import shit from Poland.
was this engine made by yates and thom ltd. of blackburn it looks very similar to the engine at astley colliery.
Yes John this engine built by Yates and Thom Blackburn same as gastley astley
Saw this engine when it was winding coal and it was very fast powerful engine it about 40 - 45 seconds a wind with no let up
My grandad use work there George crosby
Great film pity its all gone ...But memories never die
i worked at this mine , if you got out at one of the mouthings in the no 1 shaft, there was another set of head gears with another cage for you to travel to the depth of no2
thought youd of been on there with the other scivers alfie lad
my wonderful Uncle worked here! His name was Brian Featherstone.Oh such memories .. .
Fuck Margaret Thatcher's soul. I hope she's burning in Hell.
+Martin Holmes Me too! And her useless kids! And her grand kids. And their kids. And their kids too! All their fucking family!
Here in the States, we have the same feelings about obama and lying Hilary. They are trying to erase the coal industry from its roots. And the stupid bitch wants to be the next president of the USA and carry on obama's plan for its complete destruction. BOTH should burn in HELL. (p.s. I intentionally left the lower case letters in his name out of the respect I have for him)
That was number 2 winding engine I was the last man to work on it on the pits last day