Great photos, I was born in a mining village in Nottinghamshire, always had an interest in pits, old rail, and industry etc. Must be from seeing the headstocks and chimneys almost every day of my childhood.
Nice nostalgia and creates wishful sighs of bygone eras, but thankfully those days are gone and we can reminisce without actually having to live them today.
I worked for the NCB from 1974 and the Coal News gave a report on coal field performance. Kent was a mystery to me , as it was so far away,and I new no delf men from that region.I don’t recall any mention of coal under Somerset . This is a revelation to me . Thank you .
Very Interesting My Eldest son now lives on a new housing estate on top of the Timsbury mine. Think the builder had to put a lot of hard core down the shaft before they started building the houses
Kind of strange how we romanticize about the days of King Coal and the life the Miners lived. Of course, it was no more romantic than what we live today and a great deal harder and dirtier but, there was something then than doesn't exist anymore, a shared Humanness that we don't have anymore. It was all so new, the technology, the systems, the unnatural rhythms to the day, then all that became normal and we were living in an unforeseen future. Life in a coal camp was nothing like life on the farm and yet different from life in the city. Nowadays, we seldom leave the house and when we do it's to go, in an enclosed car to an enclosed store or someone else's house, just like ours. We are safer now, cleaner, richer and yet, emptier.
There is still evidence of the mines in that part of Somerset. Dropping down into Radstock from the Frome road you are suddenly 'oop north ' and the towns nice museum has a lift shaft winding wheel next to it. Further along the road at Midsommer Norton there is still a huge slag heap left as a momento and if you join the road to Bristol further along the village of Pensford has a distinctly mining look complete with Miners Institute in the village centre. Until moving here three years ago I thought the only mines in the South were in Kent and astonshed to find on this video that the colliery just east of Radstock at Writhlington only closed in 1973!
Great photos, I was born in a mining village in Nottinghamshire, always had an interest in pits, old rail, and industry etc. Must be from seeing the headstocks and chimneys almost every day of my childhood.
I did visit a mine in Radstock in the early 1970s on a short school visit, it was still a working pit, many thanks for showing
Sounds like Writhlington or Kilmersdon.....
@@alanrogers3241 Certainly one of these, the mine was close to Radstock, and in a sorry state, nice memories thanks for the information
Brilliant video, thank you
Super video, a real eye opener 👍
Nice nostalgia and creates wishful sighs of bygone eras, but thankfully those days are gone and we can reminisce without actually having to live them today.
I worked for the NCB from 1974 and the Coal News gave a report on coal field performance. Kent was a mystery to me , as it was so far away,and I new no delf men from that region.I don’t recall any mention of coal under Somerset . This is a revelation to me . Thank you .
Good god i forgot about the coal news.Thanks old Welsh miner 😢😢😢😢
Fantastic photos
Good selection of photos but the music is really annoying,
Really, really annoying!
Lol you can mute it you know?
Nope.......love the music !!
Very Interesting My Eldest son now lives on a new housing estate on top of the Timsbury mine. Think the builder had to put a lot of hard core down the shaft before they started building the houses
Nice pictures! What's the music? I love it! 🙂
Kind of strange how we romanticize about the days of King Coal and the life the Miners lived. Of course, it was no more romantic than what we live today and a great deal harder and dirtier but, there was something then than doesn't exist anymore, a shared Humanness that we don't have anymore. It was all so new, the technology, the systems, the unnatural rhythms to the day, then all that became normal and we were living in an unforeseen future. Life in a coal camp was nothing like life on the farm and yet different from life in the city. Nowadays, we seldom leave the house and when we do it's to go, in an enclosed car to an enclosed store or someone else's house, just like ours. We are safer now, cleaner, richer and yet, emptier.
There is still evidence of the mines in that part of Somerset. Dropping down into Radstock from the Frome road you are suddenly 'oop north ' and the towns nice museum has a lift shaft winding wheel next to it. Further along the road at Midsommer Norton there is still a huge slag heap left as a momento and if you join the road to Bristol further along the village of Pensford has a distinctly mining look complete with Miners Institute in the village centre.
Until moving here three years ago I thought the only mines in the South were in Kent and astonshed to find on this video that the colliery just east of Radstock at Writhlington only closed in 1973!
There used to be coal mines in South Gloucester too!
Someone shoudl go look for these place while on holiday!
Very picturesque but I don't suppose there is any trace of any now?
What a relevation.
As a life-long London-townie never knew there was a coalfield in this location.
In 100 years time, when this net zero nonsense is long dead, people will be desperate for that coal. How will they reach it?
Wonderful photo’s, terrible music.