Fireclay And Coal Mine West Yorkshire 2010

[he who must rome]

A nice fireclay and coal mine dating back into the 1800's several entrances go into this system, the roof in most places is in average condition for its age but crumbly wallieeeeee is all over stemples rotting all over but with some nice rails for the carts and a few very nice carts as well, this place is very special as there is not 1 but 2 rare items not of any money value but historic value for mining they are drill stands which the hand drills were positioned on then the miner could drill the holes for blasting....

I am still drawing out a map of the full system which I will tag on to this post.....it will be some time though as bad weather means more collaps !.

Adit 1..... not a good way into the mine..

Anyone for a go at caplunk !...

Time to get out and enter via another ..

Adit 2... looks good but once in drawn another blank !...

Again too much crumble but looks better further in just a shame pushing this adit will lead to collaps...

Time for the true way in.....

Drill stand...

Another part to the drill...

A tree fossil in the roof....

Looks like the way out...

Miners deads...

A very nice passage...

One of the turn table plates to send the carts off on different passageways...

Pick marks.....

Det cord...

Mold growth...

The only hole found todate for blasting...

Time to look above the stemples and collaps...

Hope you like the pics...

 

[Wevsky]

Nice report and as captain slow said balls of steel nice well lit pictures ..good stuff :cool2:

 

[Maniac]

That's a proper nice little mine. It's nice to see so many relics left down there, all too often hardly anything survivies, but it seems there's quite a bit in this one.

Thanks for posting.

M