I came across your interesting video through researching my family history. On the 1921 census I found my grandfather, a coal miner (hewer) stated that he was working at the Rotherham Main Colliery at Canklow, so out of curiosity I googled the colliery name and your video came top of the list. Great presentation, I really enjoyed seeing the site and what little remains, it must have been a hive of activity in its hey day. Many thanks, regards from Mallorca.
Just came across your channel by luck/accident. Fantastic to see some of the old Rotherham being explored mate. You’ve gained another subscriber mate! Would be nice if you could do something on treeton pit and the orgreave site. I know they’re both redeveloped, I live on the new Waverley development which is where orgreave sat but would love to learn more. Apparently there was a tunnel that went between treeton pit and orgreave. Would be great to know where it began and ended and if anything is still ‘discoverable’ today. Keep up the good work mate and may bump into you at the ‘ lane’ some time. UTB ⚔️⚔️⚔️
@@markmorgan8533 it’s your lucky day. my old channel: History 0114 there are two videos on the history of Orgreave and Waverley, including one where I find an old building that was once on the site. admittedly, I don’t like the videos now as it’s when I first started and my voiceover skills and general presentation is s**t! but hope you enjoy.
Brilliant, your channel just appeared on my home page. I'm from Sheffield, third vlog I've watched today. Love the history of my local area, looking forward to more 👍
@@unclenolly3207 it was fine! felt worse than it was, not even any blood think I was just being a drama queen 👸 Thanks for watching as per, glad you enjoyed!
Thanks for this explore, mate. I grew up on Ramsden Road - over the hill of Boston Park, across Moorgate Road and down the hill towards Broom Valley Road (where I went to school). Used to trek up this hill to go to Oakwood High School, where I learned to swim, and a couple of times to the hospital and never once did I picture this kind of colliery working on or around this hill which, as it is today, always just appeared to be a wood to me. Having said that, when my parents sold their house on Ramsden Road back in the 1980s, the surveyors noted issues with subsidence. Apparently, and especially in the famously dry summer of 1977 (I think), all the houses along that road/in the area suffered from subsidence because, we were told, there were mine shafts below. Didn't make much sense at the time, but in conjunction with your remarks about internal flooding of mine shafts due to proximity to the River Rother, this would all make sense. Just goes to show how far out from the main shaft the tentacles of coal mines can go as they chip away at the coal seams below. A rough guess looking at Google Maps suggests a good couple of kilometres from the two mine shafts you highlight in your slides. As for the bricks, JB&Co is surely the name of the large conglomerate, John Brown & Company, that produced, among many other things, bricks for its various sites and facilities as well transforming its steel plate into ships on the Clyde. Big "vertically integrated" concerns Sheffield steelmakers were, back in the day.
@@joelmayfield1234 same as me my friend! read about it countless times but as you can probably tell from my reaction, was shocked such large parts were still there! Thanks for watching!
Always good to see old structures and see if they still exist, as an archaelogist finding and working out the past is always a challenge at its best, but the adventure finding out is always the best.
@@deanoobg42 Thankyou my friend! Known about it for a while but didn’t expect the remains to be that extensive - as you could probably tell from my reaction!
Easy now, Jude. I think we can spy some blades tatoo-ed in his right arm there! Maybe best to avoid this topic at the beginning of a season when the Steel City derby rises again from the dead...
If you go over the road to the McDonald’s you can still see the top of an old mine shaft. When I was a kid you come walk 50yards in to it. They raised the ground level when they built the McDonald’s but you can still see about a foot of the brick wall blocking the entrance
@@paulharrison8152 duh! No idea why that didn’t click on when I spotted it, so Obvious! So caught up in what I was doing my brain forgot to function. Thankyou very much my friend!
I’m surprised the London scan security didn’t come out and get you. They don’t like people walking on there. It used to be a brilliant field for ferreting
@@paddyy666 I wasn’t aware it belonged to them, I saw their land very well secured with an electric fence further up. There were no signs at all and fence looked like it hasn’t been maintained in well over 20 years.
@@paddyy666 we stayed away from their end, not there to cause any bother or do any harm, just educate and explore. understand why they might be funny about it though
@@DavidSeatson I thought that initially, however the official coal authority map shows that the site is a shaft. It has diffferent coloured markers for drifts/adits
@@quickclipsbyjmj Papa Obscure sometimes joins me - hence why I sometimes might say ‘we’ If you watch the Brookhouse colliery building, you’ll see why he doesn’t get to come on all adventures! 😂
I came across your interesting video through researching my family history. On the 1921 census I found my grandfather, a coal miner (hewer) stated that he was working at the Rotherham Main Colliery at Canklow, so out of curiosity I googled the colliery name and your video came top of the list. Great presentation, I really enjoyed seeing the site and what little remains, it must have been a hive of activity in its hey day. Many thanks, regards from Mallorca.
Just came across your channel by luck/accident. Fantastic to see some of the old Rotherham being explored mate. You’ve gained another subscriber mate! Would be nice if you could do something on treeton pit and the orgreave site. I know they’re both redeveloped, I live on the new Waverley development which is where orgreave sat but would love to learn more. Apparently there was a tunnel that went between treeton pit and orgreave. Would be great to know where it began and ended and if anything is still ‘discoverable’ today. Keep up the good work mate and may bump into you at the ‘ lane’ some time. UTB ⚔️⚔️⚔️
@@markmorgan8533 it’s your lucky day. my old channel: History 0114 there are two videos on the history of Orgreave and Waverley, including one where I find an old building that was once on the site. admittedly, I don’t like the videos now as it’s when I first started and my voiceover skills and general presentation is s**t! but hope you enjoy.
Thanks mate. Will head over there and watch them now.
Love old sites like this, they get overlooked by so many people and other channels don't even bother with them. Great work, subscribed!
@@DEAD-DROP Thankyou my friend. The best ones are usually the ones people ignore!
Brilliant, your channel just appeared on my home page. I'm from Sheffield, third vlog I've watched today. Love the history of my local area, looking forward to more 👍
@@craigevison9070 Thankyou my friend! Welcome 🤗
Love your excitement. Keep exploring!
5:06. Talk about suffering for ones art! 😱. Hope your hand is ok.
Another interesting video. I’m learning so much that I never knew.
@@unclenolly3207 it was fine! felt worse than it was, not even any blood think I was just being a drama queen 👸
Thanks for watching as per, glad you enjoyed!
Thanks for this explore, mate. I grew up on Ramsden Road - over the hill of Boston Park, across Moorgate Road and down the hill towards Broom Valley Road (where I went to school). Used to trek up this hill to go to Oakwood High School, where I learned to swim, and a couple of times to the hospital and never once did I picture this kind of colliery working on or around this hill which, as it is today, always just appeared to be a wood to me.
Having said that, when my parents sold their house on Ramsden Road back in the 1980s, the surveyors noted issues with subsidence. Apparently, and especially in the famously dry summer of 1977 (I think), all the houses along that road/in the area suffered from subsidence because, we were told, there were mine shafts below. Didn't make much sense at the time, but in conjunction with your remarks about internal flooding of mine shafts due to proximity to the River Rother, this would all make sense.
Just goes to show how far out from the main shaft the tentacles of coal mines can go as they chip away at the coal seams below. A rough guess looking at Google Maps suggests a good couple of kilometres from the two mine shafts you highlight in your slides.
As for the bricks, JB&Co is surely the name of the large conglomerate, John Brown & Company, that produced, among many other things, bricks for its various sites and facilities as well transforming its steel plate into ships on the Clyde. Big "vertically integrated" concerns Sheffield steelmakers were, back in the day.
Great Video . I knew about Rotherham Main and its approximate location. I didnt realise there was any remains still there .
@@joelmayfield1234 same as me my friend! read about it countless times but as you can probably tell from my reaction, was shocked such large parts were still there!
Thanks for watching!
Always good to see old structures and see if they still exist, as an archaelogist finding and working out the past is always a challenge at its best, but the adventure finding out is always the best.
Never knew about this place thanks for the video class as always
@@deanoobg42 Thankyou my friend! Known about it for a while but didn’t expect the remains to be that extensive - as you could probably tell from my reaction!
Love your videos! Keep up the great work lad. Oh and UTB!
@@sarahbuckley2564 UTB!
This is remarkable! Well done!
Amazing. Great video. I live in Rotherham and didn't know any of this! UTO WAWAW
Easy now, Jude. I think we can spy some blades tatoo-ed in his right arm there! Maybe best to avoid this topic at the beginning of a season when the Steel City derby rises again from the dead...
Brilliant 👍🏼
Thankyou very much! Name added to next video x
Very good documentary.
Love this
Tunnels are probably the lower access to cage, as they were usually two tier, miners and trucks.
If you go over the road to the McDonald’s you can still see the top of an old mine shaft. When I was a kid you come walk 50yards in to it. They raised the ground level when they built the McDonald’s but you can still see about a foot of the brick wall blocking the entrance
That wasn’t a mine shaft it was a ammunition bunker store for the home guard used to be behind the old roundabout cafe I’ve been in it
Thanks
Thanks. Consider it as danger money 😳🤣
@@unclenolly3207 you are too kind. Thankyou very much. 👍
Great video mate, how do you find the entrance for the footpath to walk this bit of trail, is it from the side of canklow bridge?👍
@@SANJAYVFR750 between the railway bridge and river bridge, there is a path. Cant miss it. Next to a big set of blue gates.
@@tourobscure thanks for the reply keep up the great content..👍
JB and Co. John Brown and Co, the owners of the colliery. They probably owned their own brick works as well.
@@paulharrison8152 duh! No idea why that didn’t click on when I spotted it, so
Obvious! So caught up in what I was doing my brain forgot to function.
Thankyou very much my friend!
@@tourobscure Anytime
I’m surprised the London scan security didn’t come out and get you. They don’t like people walking on there. It used to be a brilliant field for ferreting
@@paddyy666 I wasn’t aware it belonged to them, I saw their land very well secured with an electric fence further up. There were no signs at all and fence looked like it hasn’t been maintained in well over 20 years.
I think it’s more if you go closer to there fence line but still they’ve been for me a few time on there.
@@paddyy666 we stayed away from their end, not there to cause any bother or do any harm, just educate and explore. understand why they might be funny about it though
You're a nice looking bloke. When you say something is there, please, 🙏🥺😮😊 LET ME SEE PLEASE 🙏🙏🙏
The two tunnels where drift mines to take the equipment into mines
@@DavidSeatson I thought that initially, however the official coal authority map shows that the site is a shaft. It has diffferent coloured markers for drifts/adits
'we' - you and who?
@@quickclipsbyjmj Papa Obscure sometimes joins me - hence why I sometimes might say ‘we’
If you watch the Brookhouse colliery building, you’ll see why he doesn’t get to come on all adventures! 😂
Can u do a video of canklow where joblot supermarket is
New sub aswell just found your videos 🫡
Thanks
Thankyou my friend! Name added to next video.
@@tourobscure most welcome keep them coming always nice to know and see places and their past stories especially places used to live that didn't know