a day at the mines

[Mr Sam]

well as im sure you all know by now i like a bit of explooorin yada yada yada

 

today weve been visiting a few Nott's coal mining relics, another of our great industries lost and will be a shame to see these headstocks be demolished, im sure 9/10 people just find them ugly dots on the landscape but i see them as monuments to our industrial past and its criminal to sweep them under the rug to make way for new homes for all the immigrints coming in

 

anyway ive been wanting to see the winding rooms of clipstone colliery for months now and allways loked the look of the headsock at Annesly Colliery

 

 

 

first off was Clipstone, the headstocks and winding house are suposedly Grade 2 listed so hopefully be with us for a few years to come, in its day it must of been huge as it had 2 winding stocks one for getting workers in and out the mine and 1 to get the coal out

 

 

 

No Fear

 

 

we only botherd going as high as the first winding wheel, and matt decided to take his clothes off

 

and so on to Annesly Coliery, much smaller headstock but the size of the bath house i could only imagine the size of the bath house at clipstone being over double the size of this one, really like the headstock here with the A on it and an odd climb with the ladder veering off

 

 

 

 

 

 

as with all closed mines the shafts are actually capped with a good few meters of concrete for safety reasons, i.e. dont want some chav/pikey scum falling a mile to thier death

[Copey]

cool pics sam! looks interesting!

[tt capri]

As you seem interested in this subject mate , stick EASINGTON COLLIERY PIT DISASTER in google , it shows you a lot of things about the miner's that a minority tend to forget ! i can look at the old pit cage from yard and that's all that remains of what was basically the life of the village ,

[Retro-gone.]

absolutely love your stories and pics sam

[Durham Fiesta]

the whole of the area where i live was once covered in coal mines , but now there is very little remaining of their existance, most of the villlages have monuments , and one has the winding gear on display outside the community centre . We're sat on billions of tonnes of coal but for some reason someone thinks its a better idea to buy inferior coal from abroad for extortionate amounts, rather than open a few of the mines up and create jobs again

[Mr Sam]

in a few years though when the rest of the world has run out we will be sitting on a goldmine, acording to some ex miners that was Thatchers theory anyway

 

at the end of the day though i dont think we should of let our mines get into this state, if ever there were another world war we would be royally fooked we rely on imports for almost everything

[Mr Sam]

As you seem interested in this subject mate , stick EASINGTON COLLIERY PIT DISASTER in google , it shows you a lot of things about the miner's that a minority tend to forget ! i can look at the old pit cage from yard and that's all that remains of what was basically the life of the village ,

 

theres an intresting site on the museam with some lovely old pics ta

[tt capri]

theres an intresting site on the museam with some lovely old pics ta

 

Glad you enjoyed it , but the theory with Thatcher , that certainly does'nt apply to the coastal mines as they can never reopen as they went out under the sea , and were left to flood