The pully looks too big for bell wire, I'm going to have it a guess it was for the haulage rope. I'm only used to the ceramic and plastic bell wire type that we used throughout my mining career, duck.👍🏴
Yeh...good shout. Maybe it wasnt a thick rope. I dont know how many tubs to each run but drift isnt very steep. We used 9mm rope at Brig but load was downhill outbye.... Yeh little ceramic pots. This drift will predate NCB so was most likely knocking hammers running on floor
You mentioned a Tommy Chapman in the video, is it the same fella that came to Quaker House in Billinge as u/manager in the 80s? Top man, liked him a lot.
Yes David thats Tommy. He was overman at Hapton Valley when I started, then Manager for Billy Clayton at Grimebridge before he left for Quaker House. He wrote a book on the Burnley pits he had been involved with called Old King Coal
Thanks for that Clive. Just found a copy of his book on eBay, had to buy it! Dont suppose the ol' beggar is still around is he? He'd be around 90 now if he is. @@rossendalecollieries7995
How did they identify a drift. The farm I was brought up on had about three drifts that can be spotted on the 1900 map and one other that I did enter without a torch but only for 20 feet and then I got frightened (I was 8 or 9) the others I did not know about. My farm now didn't have any but within 10 feet of the boundary of one of my fields my neighbours field has evidence.
No I am in Norden. I don't remember seeing shale at the farm I was brought up on but if you look at the old map I was brought up on Redfern Farm, Norden and look at Coal Bank Mill which was at the bottom of the farm. Now I have Laneside Farm, Norden and in my neighbours land there is shale. On my land there is/was a sign of what I was called was a bell mine.
Excellent Clive... A damn fine Mine it is too... We need to get back n explore the other Drifts... ⚒️😎😉👍👍👍✌️👌🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Brilliant Clive. I love explores like this 👍
Grand vid Clive keep them coming
The pully looks too big for bell wire, I'm going to have it a guess it was for the haulage rope. I'm only used to the ceramic and plastic bell wire type that we used throughout my mining career, duck.👍🏴
Yeh...good shout. Maybe it wasnt a thick rope. I dont know how many tubs to each run but drift isnt very steep. We used 9mm rope at Brig but load was downhill outbye....
Yeh little ceramic pots. This drift will predate NCB so was most likely knocking hammers running on floor
You mentioned a Tommy Chapman in the video, is it the same fella that came to Quaker House in Billinge as u/manager in the 80s? Top man, liked him a lot.
Yes David thats Tommy. He was overman at Hapton Valley when I started, then Manager for Billy Clayton at Grimebridge before he left for Quaker House. He wrote a book on the Burnley pits he had been involved with called Old King Coal
Thanks for that Clive. Just found a copy of his book on eBay, had to buy it! Dont suppose the ol' beggar is still around is he? He'd be around 90 now if he is. @@rossendalecollieries7995
showing your age there clive , only us old farts remember the golden shot 🤣😂
Berni the Bolt😁
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How did they identify a drift. The farm I was brought up on had about three drifts that can be spotted on the 1900 map and one other that I did enter without a torch but only for 20 feet and then I got frightened (I was 8 or 9) the others I did not know about. My farm now didn't have any but within 10 feet of the boundary of one of my fields my neighbours field has evidence.
There is usually some sort of heap outside, signs of shale, or maybe a depression where it went in. Are you in Rossendale?
No I am in Norden. I don't remember seeing shale at the farm I was brought up on but if you look at the old map I was brought up on Redfern Farm, Norden and look at Coal Bank Mill which was at the bottom of the farm. Now I have Laneside Farm, Norden and in my neighbours land there is shale. On my land there is/was a sign of what I was called was a bell mine.