Brewers Yard Mine - February 2013

[Maniac]

On one of our recent jaunts to Wiltshire, we decided to pop our heads into this little mine, more to kill some time than anything else. It's quite small this place, but has some quite nice features including a well preserved cutting bench and a nice stone staircase as the mine is on 2 levels. Bit of a death trap in places, and it's full of rubbish at one point, mainly prams, pushchairs and bicycles!

there's lots of stone stacked up on the lower level which was never removed, but does show how the stone was worked and cut in the mine before it was removed to the surface.

Blocks of Stone stacked up

Cutting block.

See all the quarrymans calculations on the wall behind the cutting block.

Stone staircase that leads down to the lower level

Looking the other way. You can just see it leads into a little room with a nice arched ceiling. My lens isn't wide enough to capture that properly thou.

 

[Shush]

I didn't realise that the stone was cut so well while it was still undertheground.

Really nice pics love the stair porn!

 

[skeleton key]

Thats very very nice and love the lighting on ur set bud

Quality how the tools still remain :cool2:

What a work environment lol bad enough crawling out after one of our mine partys

 

[Silent Night]

oh yes love some mine porn nice shots,need to get myself some mine time

 

[Maniac]

Thats very very nice and love the lighting on ur set bud Quality how the tools still remain :cool2:

What a work environment lol bad enough crawling out after one of our mine partys

Cheers buddy! This was the first outing for my new Fenix LD-41 torch, so I was still getting used to it. They came out slightly better than expected.

 

[skeleton key]

Defo giving good coverage and youve got a nice balance

 

[Pen15]

Very interesting place and would love to see this one. Great set of images love the stair shot

 

[silverainbow]

Very nice Maniac, good to see you posting again, some great shots there mate !

 

[Le kwan]

Very nice, seeing stuff like the quarrymans calculations etc really does it for me, fantastic report!

 

[Wevsky]

Very nice maniac,one ive wanted to go look at a few times now

 

[Maniac]

Thanks for the comments everyone.

@wevsky - it is worth popping your head in if your ever down that way, not a bad way to kill an hour or so, but it is very small in comparison to some of the others. It's also a pig to get in and out of - I recommend taking a bit of polyrope to use as a hand rope to help you back up the drift, there is a bit there but it's knackered!

 

[Wevsky]

Thanks for the comments everyone. @wevsky - it is worth popping your head in if your ever down that way, not a bad way to kill an hour or so, but it is very small in comparison to some of the others. It's also a pig to get in and out of - I recommend taking a bit of polyrope to use as a hand rope to help you back up the drift, there is a bit there but it's knackered!

Yeah ive heard its a Bit of a bugger the entrance ..think reason why we didnt pop in once was it was wet as thus even worse

 

[HitGirl]

Nice one, I do love it underground xxx

 

[Jesus]

Spondiliferonkingly good pics there me olde tomato, it's a nice little place. Bit dicey and the entrance is a c*ck though!