Pit And Poet :Carr and Craggs Colliery and Flower Scarr near Bacup Lancashire

Carr & Craggs is a very old colliery which predates the first OS map. Unfortunatly as yet little is known about it's early History. It was reopened in the late 1920's and carried on until Nationalization. Following closure a private mine utilized it's old drifts and worked the old pit out until 1966.
On the South of the hill lies the ancient Flower Scarr road which has numerous old shafts along it. We have recently come across old leases and the old mines have a fascinating link to one of England's greatest poets, non other than Lord Byron.

[@sylviawalchvideos]

Very interesting and well presented, thank you for sharing.

[@pauljohnson5319]

Enjoyed that. Thanks Clive.

[@pcppestcontrol]

You’re a walking encyclopaedia Clive, very interesting and fascinating stuff

[@chrisbones5354]

i thoroughly enjoyed that as i have the others thanks

[@rossendalecollieries7995]

Thanks Chris, much appreciated

[@jasoni3281]

Cracking video learned a lot from this there is a marker stone half way down the forest side sadly thre people I knew who could've given me more info are sadly gone

[@stephenbeck6631]

Great videos Clive with. out your dedication and footage people wouldn't have a clue what was once there. Keep the videos coming Clive from a xminer find them very interesting same as the colliery iv worked at goldborne being the first we had over 50years of coyl reserves i worked on the face when i was 19 did my face training did a few years then went into the developments tunnelling i did that job till i ran out of pits to work at did 18years for NCB then 8 for Cementation remember few lads from hapton valley coming to Golborne like i say clive keep the videos coming and are history alive ⛏️⛏️🔨👍

[@cliveseal1557]

Thanks Stephen. Yeh a few Valley lads went to Golbourn. Think they got arrested coming up the pit!!! Apparently my great uncle had a farm there...must be in 30's/40's as my dad used to go down as a kid.
Happy memories of going up the E Lancs to Boston and Tech ..counting the pits off as we went

[@adamrussell7978]

Another very interesting Historical Medley o Mining Info from The Clivester... Shame that Hilltop will soon be invisible FFS... 😢

[@thedeepfix]

Nice video, interesting. Not too far from my gaff. Intrigued as to what music you used, some nice guitar work there.

[@cliveseal1557]

The sound tracks Either come with video program or I buy them and the licence from content creators...sadly no proper names...the copyright issue can be difficult so I dont take any chances. Thanks for your encouragement

[@thedeepfix]

@@cliveseal1557 Thanks

[@GrandadRambles]

Nice video Clive, those wellybobs look good, are they as comfy as they look to walk in? 👍

[@cliveseal1557]

Yeh your feet never get cold anyway 😁. Nice n comfy

[@elainehalliwell6791]

So where you were stood near Hill Top colliery there was a stone quarry with big metal stumps in the ground ..what were they ( at the top of the very steep incline ) I live just down below the incline so I'm often at the quarry 👍

[@rossendalecollieries7995]

As far as I can say Elaine and I don't know for sure but I took them to belong to what ever type of haulage operated on the tramway incline. It would have to be pretty well anchored with that gradient and weight of materials descending

[@briantaylor8366]

hill top would still be working if billy was still with us what do you say clive.

[@cliveseal1557]

Totaly leveled now Brian....all gone

[@elainehalliwell926]

hi clive , i keep watching this video as i walk up here all the time being my local hillside .. so at approx 13:07 in the video where the actual quarry is whats the large hillside to the left ? ive always been curious about that big pointed hillside ..i wonder if that was a big tunnel at somepoint. ?

[@rossendalecollieries7995]

Hi Elaine, is it not where the Long Causeway goes across from Worsthorn?