Great video, miners unsung hero’s who really built Britain.

Well done, keeping history alive

A beautiful concept and a fantastic series production Dave. I have just watched all three parts back to back. I worked in 12 different coal mines from 1974 until 1998 and at all levels from Collier to Collier General Manager. Your work and dedication is vital to help preserve the mining spirit that has been passed down from generation to generation! Best regards Andy Devey

Same story every time, those responsible are exonerated and never held to account with the families receiving little or no help or recompense. My Mother came from Wrexham, her family lost relatives and neighbours in the Gresford disaster. Wonderful series of videos thank you.

Guys, an extremely interesting set of videos. An industry and heritage gone. Thanks for your work

All three videos were very interesting, please do a video about Rotherham pits

Another gem Dave.

Hi Mr Cherry. This may or may not be of interest to you, and it regards information relating to the Norcroft Pit disaster of 1821. Our Family History research has turned up the fact that our ancestor, Richard Hey and his wife, resided at no.2 and no.49 Upper Norcroft and his occupation was an Agricultural Labourer. He (aged 30 in 1821) may have been living there around the time of that awful disaster and possibly bore witness to the events that took place. We have not as yet been able to confirm that, but was there definitely in 1841 as that Census shows and he paid Land Tax in 1825 for house and land owned by the Stanhopes. If he was not residing there at that time, he may well have moved in after the accident as the mine closed and some of the miners families affected vacated the premises.

Hi Dave Cherry, I have a question for you, and perhaps you can answer my question, My grandfather worked at Woolley Colliery upto when it closed, and he lived in the old pit houses on low road at Woolley, He passed away in 1992 so I cannot ask him now, but you can perhaps, When the former Woolley Colliery was redeveloped into housing I bought a flat on the development, and I would love to know what is buried below my the apartment block where I live is near the place where the old winding gear was, and not far from the building is a grassed area which I think is where the shaft is going down to the coal face, I remember visiting my grandparents when Woolley Colliery was a working pit, and seeing the slag tips, and all the smoking chimney stacks from the pit houses, but my question is what has happened to the coal face below I know the pit shafts will have been capped off but what will have happened to the coal cutting equipment below, and will all the coal face's be still dry or will they have been flooded, it sometimes feels odd living where my grandfather worked (He worked on the coal washer) and my uncle used to look after the pit pony's when they used them. I always remember the coal miner's strike also, I was a young boy back then and will alway's remember the hardship my freinds went through back then, it was saddening to think there battle was for nothing, and someone told me there is enough coal to last for a hundreds of years, and I am sure we have the science to harness and use it, there will come a point when the oil well's in the north sea dry out and we have to re open the coal mines, but it will be double trouble, as the skill's to mine coal will have been lost as we have lost our coal mines, my heart feels for all these miner's who fought to keep there pits opened, Perhaps Brexit may be the start of something to kick start coal mining again, as we are rich in the Black Gold!!

Hi Dave, Another phenomenal video. My dad used to work at Barrow as well as a coal cutter. Here is a question, my nan lived in Birdwell and you could see a colliery from her upstairs window. It would have been close to Blacker Hill...

Really enjoyed That Dave. Keep up the good work. However; Jonathan Pratt wern't a Barnsley chap...He was from Lancashire. Have you ever come across any Of Barry Heaths stuff . He was a miner at Clipstone who wrote poetry and songs. Saw a documentry with him on in the 1980's

Do you know much of Redbrook pit?

Some more pits around Skiers Spring here for you to discover Dave www.irsociety.co.uk/Archives/54/Lidgett.htm

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HI THERE AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR VERY INTERESING VIDEO.FOR A LONG TIME I HAVE INTENDED COVERING BY VIDEO AS MANY PIT SITES AS POSSIBLE BUT UNLESS YOU KNOW THE EXACT LOCATION OF THESE SITES WOULD BE HARD TO FIND.I WORKED AT ASKERN PIT WHERE THE SHAFTS ARE NOT HARD TO FIND.SEE MY VIDEO "ASKERN PIT SITE".AT SOME SITES IT WOULDN'T SURPRISE ME IF THE SHAFTS HAVE BEEN COVERED WITH SOIL,GRASS ECT SO CANNOT BE FOUND.WHICH ROAD IS THE NEAREST TO WHARNCLIFFE SILKSTONE AT PILLEY?I HAVE FOUND ON GOOGLE MAPS ALL THE PITS ALONG FROM CAPHOUSE APPART FROM GRANGE ASH.I HAVE A MAP OF SKIERS SPRING AND 6 SHAFTS ARE SHOWN.DID YOU FIND THE WALKWAY NEAR TO THE COTTAGE.CHEERS,PHILIP.