There’s over 10,000 mine shaft entrances in 10 square miles of Wigan. Only 200 are logged 😂 When my mother was a child one of her best friends fell down a mine shaft and died, her body’s never been recovered as it’s too dangerous. There’s a gravestone on the cap.
I live in bryn and the house estates that I live on was built in the 70s on old mine works also you can see the coal seam were they have been digging out for the smart motorway on the M6
I live just up the road from this in aspull. It’s amazing to me that the whole of Wigan didn’t just disappear down a massive sink hole when you consider the huge amount of mining that’s gone on here over years and years. Any chance you could tell me which pit this would have been was it one of the main shafts or a vent shaft I’d be very interested to find out.
i remember in 70s wigan a child falling down an uncapped mine shaft and body was never found on a new wigan estate wigan council cost the life of a child and nothing was done
What is more important is why do we not mine coal anymore as we all know we still have enough coal under our feet in the whole of the UK .Bring back out proud tradition of being the best coal miners in the world.👷🏼♂️🇬🇧⚒️
I'm sorry to tell you but the UK simply doesn't have enough demand for coal as it once did. I'm only in my thirties but when I was a kid, several family members still had coal fires. Now, everybody has central heating or a log burner. There is only one coal-fired power station left in the UK. The world is moving towards renewables. We can't set our country back by returning to coal.
@@72srwm67 We will need all that untapped coal and new power stations to burn it once the Net Zero/carbon free renewables/climate change fraud has been exposed.
I live nere aspull and when on a bike ride I found an OPEN shaft right at the top of a massive hill next to aspull pumping Station. Well it's got a flimsy chicken wire fence around it but still dangerous as F .... it is only shown as a shaft on 1 of the old maps I have finally found, all the other old maps say its nothing. Very strange might chuck a few bricks down see how deep it is
That is very interesting, thanks for sharing! It is great to see what you guys get up to, and is much easier to take in with a video such as this than looking at reports... (For me anyway...!) :)
Hi, the terrace houses above were built in the 1930s and it looks like the builder doglegged the terrace to avoid the front elevation going across the shaft, ensuring instead it was in the middle of an alley way. Back then there weren’t the same building controls and it wasn’t really understood might happen in the future with mine shafts - possibly the builder assumed the foundations of the properties would support each other which, to be fair, they did for 70 or 80 years. If you're interested, you can take a look at our interactive map viewer ( mapapps2.bgs.ac.uk/coalauthority/home.html ) and search Wigan for "mine entries".
Hi I am in process of buying house in Bedworth -warwickshire,and as per the searches the development is on a former coal mine . Do you think when I sell my property in future , it will hold the value ? And more importantly, if anything goes wrong , would coal authority cover the cost to repair the damage caused by if there is ground movement? What advise can you provide ? Thanks
Hi, as the fill in the shaft had only slumped, causing movement in the houses above, there probably wouldn't be much to see. However, there's a picture of our works to construct the reinforced concrete cap in the story - you can see it at bit.ly/3aNyUVu
@@TheCoalAuthority question for you, when they build new build houses over old colliery sites do the people who buy the house have any idea that shafts can open up or are they known to know they are buying houses on top of old coal mines
@@tomboot2132 Hi Tom, thanks for the question. If a site is in a Development High Risk Area, a Coal Mining Risk Assessment has to be submitted to the Local Planning Authority. You can read more here: www.gov.uk/guidance/planning-applications-coal-mining-risk-assessments
There’s over 10,000 mine shaft entrances in 10 square miles of Wigan.
Only 200 are logged 😂
When my mother was a child one of her best friends fell down a mine shaft and died, her body’s never been recovered as it’s too dangerous.
There’s a gravestone on the cap.
That is absolutely terrible .
There is a lot of old mine shafts done over the years that was never logged on maps this is why this happens
I live in bryn and the house estates that I live on was built in the 70s on old mine works also you can see the coal seam were they have been digging out for the smart motorway on the M6
Came across this after viewing a house for sale that is on a coal mine. Very interesting video
Thanks for the feedback Daniel, pleased you found it interesting.
I live just up the road from this in aspull. It’s amazing to me that the whole of Wigan didn’t just disappear down a massive sink hole when you consider the huge amount of mining that’s gone on here over years and years. Any chance you could tell me which pit this would have been was it one of the main shafts or a vent shaft I’d be very interested to find out.
i remember in 70s wigan a child falling down an uncapped mine shaft and body was never found on a new wigan estate wigan council cost the life of a child and nothing was done
Was it the back of mesnes Park I remember a kid died there 70s
What is more important is why do we not mine coal anymore as we all know we still have enough coal under our feet in the whole of the UK .Bring back out proud tradition of being the best coal miners in the world.👷🏼♂️🇬🇧⚒️
I'm sorry to tell you but the UK simply doesn't have enough demand for coal as it once did. I'm only in my thirties but when I was a kid, several family members still had coal fires. Now, everybody has central heating or a log burner. There is only one coal-fired power station left in the UK. The world is moving towards renewables. We can't set our country back by returning to coal.
@@72srwm67 We will need all that untapped coal and new power stations to burn it once the Net Zero/carbon free renewables/climate change fraud has been exposed.
This carbon zero tax scam - Uk is lost .
I live nere aspull and when on a bike ride I found an OPEN shaft right at the top of a massive hill next to aspull pumping Station. Well it's got a flimsy chicken wire fence around it but still dangerous as F .... it is only shown as a shaft on 1 of the old maps I have finally found, all the other old maps say its nothing. Very strange might chuck a few bricks down see how deep it is
Living either side of this would lead to sleepless nights I'm guessing?
And that’s how things should be explained
Crazy that the builders didn't spot the signs of a previous shaft when building
Probably did but built it anyway. -
That is very interesting, thanks for sharing! It is great to see what you guys get up to, and is much easier to take in with a video such as this than looking at reports... (For me anyway...!) :)
Hi Ben, thanks for the feedback - much appreciated. Glad you found it interesting!
Why was there houses built on top of a shaft?
Hi, the terrace houses above were built in the 1930s and it looks like the builder doglegged the terrace to avoid the front elevation going across the shaft, ensuring instead it was in the middle of an alley way. Back then there weren’t the same building controls and it wasn’t really understood might happen in the future with mine shafts - possibly the builder assumed the foundations of the properties would support each other which, to be fair, they did for 70 or 80 years. If you're interested, you can take a look at our interactive map viewer ( mapapps2.bgs.ac.uk/coalauthority/home.html ) and search Wigan for "mine entries".
@@TheCoalAuthority yeah I'll look at that link. Very interesting. Thanks for the detailed response.
Hi I am in process of buying house in Bedworth -warwickshire,and as per the searches the development is on a former coal mine .
Do you think when I sell my property in future , it will hold the value ? And more importantly, if anything goes wrong , would coal authority cover the cost to repair the damage caused by if there is ground movement? What advise can you provide ? Thanks
Hi, thanks for the questions - please give our customer services team a call on 0345 762 6848 and we'd be happy to discuss these points with you.
Really interesting!
Thanks for the feedback - glad you enjoyed it!
why is there never a view of down the shaft?
Hi, as the fill in the shaft had only slumped, causing movement in the houses above, there probably wouldn't be much to see. However, there's a picture of our works to construct the reinforced concrete cap in the story - you can see it at bit.ly/3aNyUVu
@@TheCoalAuthority question for you, when they build new build houses over old colliery sites do the people who buy the house have any idea that shafts can open up or are they known to know they are buying houses on top of old coal mines
@@tomboot2132 Hi Tom, thanks for the question. If a site is in a Development High Risk Area, a Coal Mining Risk Assessment has to be submitted to the Local Planning Authority. You can read more here: www.gov.uk/guidance/planning-applications-coal-mining-risk-assessments
@@TheCoalAuthority This work is interesting, is there anymore shaft capping or repairs going off ?
Very interesting indeed. 😁👍👍👍
200m!
Whos bright idea was it to build houses over a huge mineshaft 🙈😆👍