Awesome and very interesting. Now right on my doorstep too and with a passion of history its a shame only two remaining parts left to remind us. great unseen stock footage too which I've never seen. Great coverage of its history buddy. well done.
There used to be a tunnel there too 30+ years ago and that shaft used to be open at the top behind the wall, it might have been filled in since, unless all the rubbish etc chucked over the wall has blocked it off, if there was a fire in the headframe it may have fell in and created a false floor. Up at Lingdale the shafts are still there but capped off, there was talk, again 30+ years ago at using them for landfill, but it never went ahead at the time.
Awesome and very interesting. Now right on my doorstep too and with a passion of history its a shame only two remaining parts left to remind us. great unseen stock footage too which I've never seen. Great coverage of its history buddy. well done.
Cheers my good friend, we should do a little bit about this for our ironstone mine playlist on our channel because I have so much more info on this
There used to be a tunnel there too 30+ years ago and that shaft used to be open at the top behind the wall, it might have been filled in since, unless all the rubbish etc chucked over the wall has blocked it off, if there was a fire in the headframe it may have fell in and created a false floor.
Up at Lingdale the shafts are still there but capped off, there was talk, again 30+ years ago at using them for landfill, but it never went ahead at the time.
There’s also a horizontal adit close to the viaduct which fed Longares. - it is collapsed after about 50 yards in however