Groverake Fluorspar mine

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Groverake Fluorspar mine

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A visit to the Frasers Hush section of Groverake mine in the North Pennines (Cumbria) in 1998. This was the last operating fluorspar mine in the area and it closed soon after the visit due to competition from low cost imports from China.

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@kevlandy 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you for showing what things were like. I visited a couple of years ago and it was sad to see what a mess it now is. :-(

@EtherealLightPhotography 7 жыл бұрын

kevlandy The last owners were keen to see the surface buildings conserved but seemingly there was little support

@EtherealLightPhotography 7 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it despite the quality of the video from those days

@kapitantripps Ай бұрын

great video

@EtherealLightPhotography 26 күн бұрын

Thanks unfortunately there’s no mining in the area nowadays

@EtherealLightPhotography 12 жыл бұрын

The Frasers Hush section of the mine closed in 1998 and would be now flooded. I expect that the mine track and winder would have been removed at that time. There are still some surface remains (headframe etc.) at the nearby former Groverake Mine.

@EtherealLightPhotography 11 жыл бұрын

Fabien, thanks for your comments. This was one of the last non-coal mines to be worked in the UK. Doubt if it will reopen again

@RetroGamerVX 10 жыл бұрын

Wow, amazing to see it when it was in use. Explored the surface workings a few times and I've seen pictures of people exploring underground since it was abandoned and is now flooded and wrecked. I've just put a video up on my channel of our explore :o)

@fabienpitorre 11 жыл бұрын

Wonderful video !!!

@UKAbandonedMineExplores 2 жыл бұрын

Just think, most of that is now under water, beyond really nasty collapses.

@UKAbandonedMineExplores 2 жыл бұрын

Video of the main horse level, as it is now, coming this week.

@EtherealLightPhotography 2 жыл бұрын

Look forward to this

@JemFreiesleben 7 жыл бұрын

Hi Martin, I am making a short documentary about the Frazers Grove/Grove Rake/Frazers Hush Site. Would it be possible to use sections of your video (credited obviously) in the production? It will be a youtube release I expect (non-commercial). I have a lot of footage of the site after closure, but very little of it in operation. Thanks!

@EtherealLightPhotography 7 жыл бұрын

Jem, no problem as long as credited and none commercial use but I might check with Paul Allison who took us underground and who now owns the mine site if he's happy to be shown. I also have some video of talking in the office with Paul's father but don't know if I can find the Hi8 tape (and this would certainly need clearing with the Allisons). Link to our youtube page would be appreciated.

@JemFreiesleben 7 жыл бұрын

Hi Martin, thanks. I can't say when it will be completed (probably late 2017), but when it is I'll let you know. I'd be very interested to speak to anyone who was involved with Grove Rake when it was a running mine - hopefully also be able to interview a couple. It's just going to be a KZfaq release, but I think it's important to make a note of things which were such a big part of history, and now almost completely overlooked. It would be particularly good to use the bit where (paul?) says "when we stop here, that's it - it'll never happen again." Sadly, so true, would make a good ending to the film. Are you part of the friends of Grove Rake page (facebook.com/Friendsofgroverake/)? They're running a fundraising campaign to try and buy a new lease in order to preserve the headgear in situ. The rest of the site has now been cleared.

@EtherealLightPhotography 7 жыл бұрын

Jem Freiesleben I can put the video file on Dropbox if you want (only 80mb) - will pm you link. I'm trying to contact Paul Allison who is in the video . I spent some time underground in 1990s with British steel doing my PhD . I would guess not too many British steel miners around but I might ask the mine geologist from the time if he has contacts

@JemFreiesleben 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks, this would be much appreciated (KZfaq has a habit of compressing files even further). You can email me direct for this project at "groverake@hawkvalley.co.uk"

@caitlinwelch9215 6 жыл бұрын

Jem Freiesleben Did you ever complete this video? As my Grandad used to work there for years before the mine closed.