Lowering A Camera 650Ft Down A Flooded Mine Shaft To A Huge Collapse : UK Abandoned Mine Explore
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In this footage from a professionally commissioned survey,
a camera is lowered 650 feet or 200 metres down a flooded coal
pit shaft to examine the damage from a huge collapse,
looking at various features on the way.
The shaft was started in the 1870s, was 14 foot
wide and reached a depth of 282 metres or 925 feet.
The mine closed in the 1960s.
Enjoy the video and stay safe,
from UKAME.
This channel is based in the North East of England ( UK ) and documents our explorations of both the underground and above ground workings of abandoned, and sometimes operational mines within areas such as the Northern Pennines, North Yorkshire and the Lake District, sometimes a little further. We now and again throw in some caving too. Our intention is to document these abandoned mines, show how they worked and talk about the history behind them. Unfortunately, due to politics, or the need to preserve the site, we can not always name the mine location. If the location is not shown in the video, please do not ask as refusal to divulge often offends.
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@b.2221 3 ай бұрын
Nothing but sheer respect ✊ for the folks who have sacrificed a lot of their lives to bring us coal. The engineering work is off the charts.
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 3 ай бұрын
Yup, incredible, like the other types of mines too
@davidclark3603 2 жыл бұрын
Absolutely brilliant. I'm old now, but, I remember the Ashton Moss Colliery, or the Snipe Pit, as it was known. It was demolished in about 1971? The two giant shafts were completely exposed and open for what seemed like months! As kids we used to throw rocks and boulders down. It was said to be a out a mile deep, leading to what was known as the "Roger seam". One of the deepest in the country. It's a B & Q warehouse now. Where it says, builders entrance is where the first of the giant shafts lay. I still have nightmares today, fifty years later about that place.
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 2 жыл бұрын
Yes, not the nicest of places to work :(
@NormanGnome11 2 жыл бұрын
@@UKAbandonedMineExplores Yeah - B&Q sucks.
@malcolmbird1933 Жыл бұрын
@@NormanGnome11 Nightmares , yeah , Me too ! at age of 8 , 9 and 10 we as kids balanced on the edge of the two 1500 foot shafts , Alma Colliery , near Chesterfield . closed in 1920s , throwing bricks down -- 6 seconds for the bricks to reach the bottom - one shaft was flooded we could see the water a long long way down.
@50bograt Ай бұрын
ashton moss was connected to bradford pit and woodpark and bradford connected to moston colliery for ventilation purposes this video is a rip off of the original video of the inspection of hesketh shaft hence why the shaft name is blanked out
@lordcaptainvonthrust3rd 14 күн бұрын
Spectacular 👍 My dad worked at the Prince of Wales Colliery in Pontefract But only for 6 months He got fed up with going to work in the dark, working in the dark and going home in the dark Then one day the cage he was riding up in collided with a descending cage No injuries and one old timer casually told him "it happens all the time" He handed his notice in the same day with immediate effect
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 14 күн бұрын
Yes, most miners I know said it was a horrid place to work, but they would go back tomorrow due to the comaderadery (can't spell that lol)
@garethparr9482 3 жыл бұрын
Wow. What lies beneath I’m fascinated with old mine shafts and this video really does deliver. In to abyss so eerie to think that no one or hardly anyone has seen down there since the mine was abandoned in the 60s.
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 3 жыл бұрын
Yes, all that history and effort, almost forgotten.
@ddaazz365 3 жыл бұрын
As an ex collier I’ve often wondered how the shafts are now like at Hem Heath Colliery. Our depth was 1062yards working level and out of the cage we went further down inbye. Thanks for the video.
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 3 жыл бұрын
Yes, very few of these videos on line, but nice too see how they are 60 odd years later.
@daz4643 Жыл бұрын
Daz R, My old man and a few of my friends worked at Hem Heath.
@michaelshaw8447 7 ай бұрын
Me too buddy I worked in the Winghay at 612 level, best job I ever had
@admiralbenbow5083 9 ай бұрын
I went down that shaft in a giant 6 man bucket on the end of a cable, I think it was in `92. We were suppliers of an additive that was going into the sump concrete right at the bottom. We descended at speed but it still took a good 20 mins to get there. It was a vertical mile. The tiny orange dot one could just see below us at the start turned out to be a huge construction site at the bottom. Best day at work I ever had !!
@johnprice6548 16 күн бұрын
Don't think any shaft was a vertical mile bud, big K was less than 1 km, and I think that was deepest coal mine in uk
@rred2419 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing this ,amazing how they lined the shaft all the way down!
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 3 жыл бұрын
I know, a lot of very dangerous work in terrible conditions.
@robertmaitland09 3 жыл бұрын
Oof that's deep, reminded me of when I visited Caphouse and stood on the glass looking down the 140 meter shaft there, all those brick placed by the hands of men long since gone. Respect.
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 3 жыл бұрын
Yes, not been there, must be pretty good to do.
@seanDB1989 9 ай бұрын
@@UKAbandonedMineExploresI went last Friday - it’s fantastic. I’m 34 and from South Derbyshire, so I was too young to ever go down one of the many pits around here.
@123hero321 3 жыл бұрын
The Recess is an inset, it could have been a pumping lodge or a partially bashed off landing in the shaft. The shaft lining failure may have been caused by water pressure against the shaft lining with a void behind creating a difference of force causing it to fail, it would have taken a fair amount of pressure from the strata to cause that failure against the water pressure but it is possible. Colliery Mechanical Engineer.
@jackharrison6771 Жыл бұрын
Can anyone else imagine being down there, ALONE [with air of course]. I wonder if you get some odd dreams. Very interesting, and thanks for posting.
@UKAbandonedMineExplores Жыл бұрын
Your welcome :)
@logiclee1 6 күн бұрын
Spent plenty of time over 1000M down and several KM in on my own with only a cap lamp for light. Turn out your cap lamp and the darkness is total, can't even see you hand in front of your face.
@cynthiatyler1606 3 жыл бұрын
Wow what an amazing structure. This is a really interesting explore. Haven't seen one like this before. Thanks
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 3 жыл бұрын
Hi Cynthia, thanks, it was a real pleasure restoring the footage and editing it all, I do believe this is unique at the moment.
@FrederikWynants 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing this very interesting footage! I've allways wondered how a flooded mineshaft looks like and thanks to this fantastic images i got to know :-) Very nice video !
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 3 жыл бұрын
Yes, I was the same, it was great that they gave me this footage :)
@Gladiamdammit 3 жыл бұрын
Absolutely incredible. What a ride! Cheers again, m8's.
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks, glad you enjoyed, this is a one off to show people what its actually like in these places.
@andykopgod 3 жыл бұрын
Absolutely fascinating, love this, always wondered how they filled in and capped deep shafts like this, this ones open, and still quite deep. Love to see more like this 👏👏
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks, it was a pleasure to edit this one :o)
@davids.9834 2 жыл бұрын
The "pipe" is accually a pump and those bowels at the bottom of the pipe are the impellers. A long shaft goes down through the center of the pipe and spins the impellers. If I had to guess I would say they are using the old mine as a public water supply well.That pump looks newer than 1960.. Probably pumping out of the shaft and into a reservoir before treatment. This is probably why they are doing a camera inspection as well, because it is a public water supply well. I am in that line of work....... but over in the USA.
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 2 жыл бұрын
Ahh, thanks for that, possibly right there.
@Dwaine-ej7nm 3 жыл бұрын
Best explore iv ever seen you never get to see what is below the water so this was amazing to see thanks guys 💯👌👍
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 3 жыл бұрын
Your welcome, glad you enjoyed :)
@rea2605 3 жыл бұрын
That opening you asked about might well have been an 'Inset' which looked as if it had bricked up and sealed. These were used to access shallower or old seams. The colliery I worked at in the mid 50s had two such 'Insets' one had been sealed the other had a swinging platform that dropped across the gap to the cage. It allowed access to another seam being worked rather than go down one of the other shafts and walk a mile or so to the same spot.
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 3 жыл бұрын
I was actually told by a miner who worked there that it's actually a blocked off level.
@petemoss8625 3 жыл бұрын
when i left school 15yrs old ,I went to work at Harworth colliery, I will always remember an old timer telling me to look through a hole in the cage at the top of the shaft, you could just see the bottom, it was a pin prick of light, just like a star at night. a bloody long way down.
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 3 жыл бұрын
Nice :)
@Tox1415 3 жыл бұрын
We did a band concert at the bottom of the shaft at Harworth. It was a world record at the time. There was a picture up in the band room of it.
@Roscoe.P.Coldchain Жыл бұрын
Can’t believe we used to play dare and hang over the shaft at fryston pit after it was closed it was just left for months and we used to climb the structures and play in the pit..We were crazy thinking back but there was no security or nothing and there were older men working illegally taking all the scrap..Crazy days the 80s it was left like that for months after
@UKAbandonedMineExplores Жыл бұрын
Scary what you don't realise as a kid :)
@johnmelling9950 2 жыл бұрын
The mines that closed in the early 90s were filled with limestone from the bottom right up to the top and then a reinforced concrete cap was poured. I'm guessing the older shafts were just capped off at the top like this one. It wont be in our lifetime but in many years to come, researchers and future historians will probably go back down some of these mines perhaps using autonomous vehicles or robots. Many of them still have lots of machinery down them that was left when the pits closed. You never know but there could even become a time in the future were there is a need to extract the remaining coal as theres still lots of it left untouched under the UK.
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 2 жыл бұрын
They don't do coal mines, but there is actually a chanel called 'Lost Mines' that do ROV down old mine shafts etc :)
@johnmelling9950 2 жыл бұрын
@@UKAbandonedMineExplores thanks ill give it a check out
@JONESSTI01 Күн бұрын
I had a mate who worked at one, hard to say exactly but it was somewhere between Thorne and goole.. and as you say filled with rock. Grandad worked at Rothwell pit in leeds
@fratiloiutommy2938 2 жыл бұрын
Great footage! Great exploring! I was really hoping for a second part where you reached the bottom.
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 2 жыл бұрын
Ya, the reason they sent the camera down was to survey the damage, the bottom was a lot further down.
@christopherburson2465 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing that, an incredible structure, and the incredible contrast now from the noise and bustle of its hard won construction, use, and now the incessant quiet, cool and the water. I have only ever seen these things from the surface before, amazing the huge effort people put in, probably for meagre rewards. Thanks again.
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 3 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it! Yes, fascinating to see inside these places all these years later.
@iainpaton7129 2 жыл бұрын
Absolutely 💯amazing video 📹👏thank you so much please keep the great videos coming 👍from Scotland
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 2 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed, thanks for the feedback :)
@AdventuresRUs 3 жыл бұрын
Awesome video guys!! Informative too, thanks for that, we’re new to the exploration game!! New sub here!!
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks, lot of work goes into them, editing next ar the moment :)
@seeker3886 Жыл бұрын
That was magnificent - I want to see the bottom as well, plus more flooded shafts.
@UKAbandonedMineExplores Жыл бұрын
This footagevwas given to us by a company, they were tasked with examining the collapse so there is no footage further down unfortunately
@exploringwithchris9433 3 жыл бұрын
Loved every minute amazing
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks very much, glad you enjoyed.
@TheRopeAddict 2 жыл бұрын
Magnificent video 💯
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 2 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it
@alexhiggins7307 9 ай бұрын
My father and Grandfather, Great Grandfather were colliers. Fair play to them, death only lurks around the corner at any moment. My grandmother always told me, if you end up underground, I'll never speak to you again. I can see why...
@nickelmickel4170 3 жыл бұрын
Amazing footage,seing the bottom would have been a buzz.👍🇦🇺
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks, not sure if the camera would have imploded.
@bladesman123 2 жыл бұрын
Amazing how clear the water is, I presumed it would be cloudy, great vid.
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks, yes, all the sediment quickly settles to the bottom.
@bladesman123 2 жыл бұрын
@@UKAbandonedMineExplores Which colliery is it?
@paulbrennan3996 Жыл бұрын
My God excellent work going back in the past, Ghosts of the past brilliant my Dad was a coal miner, My grandad and the rest of the Lads in My dad's family . Respect interesting thanks 🙏👏👏
@UKAbandonedMineExplores Жыл бұрын
Thanks, glad you enjoyed :)
@paulwilliams5713 Жыл бұрын
Incredible photography
@UKAbandonedMineExplores Жыл бұрын
Thanks :)
@nickmallinder6767 3 жыл бұрын
The recess I believes entrance to old workings coal was a big part of my life growing up in Yorkshire especially the strike as great as this is fantastic to see I still kills me to see communities still struggling after the death of king coal
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 3 жыл бұрын
Been told by a guy that worked there, arched bit was the level.
@nickmallinder6767 3 жыл бұрын
@@UKAbandonedMineExplores which mine was this and are you planning on any more It’s fantastic to see yet with a tinge of sadness
@richardamner7432 2 жыл бұрын
Here in Wales its the same struggle for the communities, I'm in West Wales not the Valleys where it is worse, from my rear garden I can see sites of at least 15 old mines, Cyheidre was the largest, I love the history of mining and love to explore the old surface areas.
@jonsteadisno1 Жыл бұрын
Absolutely fascinating. Thank you for sharing. So many questions and where to start. When was it sunk?, was it always a dewatering shaft?, no reinforcing-catchment rings seen on the way down?, the recess at 160m sits within a stone arch. Another level, maybe, or the remains of the ventilation system?
@UKAbandonedMineExplores Жыл бұрын
I can't give specific information so as not give away location, but sunk early 1800s, nope, it was an operational shaft, older than re-enforcing rings. I've been told by somebody who worked there that re ess is a level. Glad you enjoyed :)
@jonpertwee123 Жыл бұрын
Reminds me of my local colliery, Cefn coed in crynant, all the men in my family worked there til it closed in the 60s, then transferred across the road to blaenant drift which used the same shafts for ventilation but then closed in the 90s. Then my valley died.
@UKAbandonedMineExplores Жыл бұрын
Yep coal is a bit of a dead industry here, only one small colliery operating here.
@nigelwilliams7403 Жыл бұрын
My Grandpa worked the Seven Sisters pit. Cefn Coed very deep, now has a museum
@stewartbond8037 Жыл бұрын
@@UKAbandonedMineExplores is there still a working colliery in the country . Used to live in Tamworth not far from Where pooleypit was but I can't find any old pictures at all . I know amington had mine shafts as myaunts house was built over one. Where can I find more information please
@paulfrost4222 3 жыл бұрын
It looks to be a large stone arch that's been bricked up with a small recess in the middle maybe an old tunnel they bricked up to help support the stone arch
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 3 жыл бұрын
I've been told it was actually a bricked up level.
@angliscsaxon1288 3 жыл бұрын
The day they shut our last coal mine was the end of an era and the beginning of an error
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 3 жыл бұрын
:o(
@xprime2159 3 жыл бұрын
Oi
@TonyBanks21 3 жыл бұрын
I understand,now they want to open a new deep level coal mine!! The way our Government acts,doesn’t make sense to me !
@cloudcraft7153 3 жыл бұрын
Coal mines weren’t safe, millions died in them.
@angliscsaxon1288 3 жыл бұрын
@@cloudcraft7153 yes we know, but this is what we're forced to do in order to put a roof over our head, food on the table and clothes on our back as other jobs just dont pay enough
@ewenlamont3861 Жыл бұрын
Grate video we like it scotland
@UKAbandonedMineExplores Жыл бұрын
Thanks very much :)
@TheSilmarillian 2 жыл бұрын
Yep just the amount of work to brick something like that truly amazing indeed
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 2 жыл бұрын
Yrs, a lot of very dangerous work involved.
@stephenlee2571 3 жыл бұрын
Suspect the shaft always had a water problem and the inset housed some sort of tank for collection of water running down the shaft walls to be pumped out
@Zubatec Жыл бұрын
Amazing, no words needed. Thanks from CZ 🙋♂️
@UKAbandonedMineExplores Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed :)
@Zubatec Жыл бұрын
@@UKAbandonedMineExplores it is scary and amazing at the same time. Plus the music you added makes it astonishing. I really enjoyed it 😍
@Themantogoto Жыл бұрын
Subbed for the Stargate reference, it truly does look like MALP footage from the show.
@UKAbandonedMineExplores Жыл бұрын
Lol, cheers.
@maestromanification 3 жыл бұрын
Absolutely amazing video. How deep does the shaft actually go, are there any plans to do further shaft filmings. I'd love to see a camera down Skelton Park downcast shaft
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks, this one 200 metres deep. No more plans, this footage was kindly donated to the channel.
@RichieWellock 2 жыл бұрын
great i did a low tech version down a old air shaft but my version leaves you with a headache as the camera goes into uncontrollable spin. great footage of the flooded sections in your video.
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 2 жыл бұрын
Yes, we didn't dob thus video, it was a professional survey. Our attempts at another shaft had same issues you had.
@PaulanthonyBridge-kt4eg 8 ай бұрын
In my house.
@imre888 3 жыл бұрын
Sensational! The combination of video and music is brilliant. Will there be a video of the 282 m bottom?
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks, no video of bottom, this was commissioned to survey the damage.
@imre888 3 жыл бұрын
@@UKAbandonedMineExplores thanks , and it would have been interesting.....
@scorpian1960 2 жыл бұрын
As an ex coalminer this interests me, I would love to go underground again it stays in your blood
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 2 жыл бұрын
Well ifvyiur in the North East of UK or can get there, can show you the wonders :)
@scorpian1960 2 жыл бұрын
@@UKAbandonedMineExplores I asm not too far away, I live in Scotland
@CymruEmergencyResponder Жыл бұрын
Come on a holiday to Wales and you go visit Pwll Mawr (the national mining museum of Wales). It’s an old colliery and they still take you underground in the cage.
@scorpian1960 Жыл бұрын
@@CymruEmergencyResponder there's a mining museum in Wakefield where you go underground
@supernick2072 Жыл бұрын
Whoever installed that pipe. Has balls.
@UKAbandonedMineExplores Жыл бұрын
Indeed :)
@peterthornton2396 Жыл бұрын
Great and rare video. Am I right in thinking the water came in under pressure through the shaft wall resulting in the damage?
@UKAbandonedMineExplores Жыл бұрын
Thanks, usually just raises slowly as the water table floods the mines back up, if it had been under pressure would have risked it being destroyed whilst in use u less something has changed geologically since.
@leecrenshaw5687 2 жыл бұрын
I truly thank you guys for this video. How deep do you think it truly is? If you went to 650 ft how much farther down does it go
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for feedback, it goes around another 200ft.
@theowdgit9790 2 жыл бұрын
Still a few uncapped pits in the wigan area if yo know were to look.
@buffplums 2 жыл бұрын
Better than a Ben Was O Cam video
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 2 жыл бұрын
Naaa, dissagree
@mookett 3 жыл бұрын
Very interesting guys our shafts are nearly 3800 ft and i get to work in them every day shaft/ropeman a dying breed
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 3 жыл бұрын
That must be an experience.
@StephenWatson-qj1ze Жыл бұрын
The Inset could have been a Pump Lodge as to pump water out of a mine the pumps were in stages i the Shaft
@UKAbandonedMineExplores Жыл бұрын
Good idea :)
@steviejaypyne1 2 жыл бұрын
Great video, what colliery is this ?
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 2 жыл бұрын
Thankyou. Unfortunatly, not at liberty to say which colliery it is unfortunatly.
@thomasdonald3291 3 жыл бұрын
That blue pipe looks new, is it occasionally pumped out at all?
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 3 жыл бұрын
I've no idea sorry :(
@MrAndysoul 2 жыл бұрын
Was it Dawdon colliery when they serviced the pumps ?
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 2 жыл бұрын
Nope, not that one.
@jw2218 3 жыл бұрын
Seeing this footage reminded me of when they first found the titanic.
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 3 жыл бұрын
In its own sense, maybe just as historic :)
@alouisschafer7212 3 жыл бұрын
The mining industry is long gone but the mines are all still there. Every now and then they remind us of that by caving in or polluting our water when toxic water from deep down floods up to the surface. Undocumented Shafts and cavities are still being discovered.
@Capt_Y_Fronts 3 жыл бұрын
I've watched this before and left with a question but never asked. How did they know there had been a collapse or did a previous camera survey pick it up?
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 3 жыл бұрын
Picked up on a previous survey, these are done with a schedule.
@markm-ci6rj 3 жыл бұрын
Why??? What difference does it make if the shaft collapsed and if it does what can be done about it?
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 3 жыл бұрын
Because that collapse makes the brickwork above unstable, causing the collapse yo work its way up the shaft to the surface.
@andrewexcell747 3 жыл бұрын
Hi from New Zealand. Absolutely mindblowing video guys. What an amazing perspective. Definitely nothing better than this , out there. Be interesting to see the bottom of the shaft some day. What's the diameter of the shaft.? Thanks for the adventure. From the land of the Kiwis.
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 3 жыл бұрын
Yep, not sure their kit designed to go that deep. The shaft is 14ft across. Your welcome and thanks for the feedback :)
@buffplums Жыл бұрын
Wonder if Ben O Cam was ever down there before it flooded lol 😂
@UKAbandonedMineExplores Жыл бұрын
Lol, coal, so unlikely.
@buffplums Жыл бұрын
@@UKAbandonedMineExplores haha propper job!
@rickylappin8862 7 ай бұрын
Its hard to imagine all the men working down there . The craftsmen ship is amazing
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 7 ай бұрын
Yes, it really is :)
@nickmallinder6767 3 жыл бұрын
The damage at the bottom of the shaft could be due to the ropes been cut and the cages doing the damage
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 3 жыл бұрын
Now that would have been something yo see, bet they don't do that these days.
@nickmallinder6767 3 жыл бұрын
@@UKAbandonedMineExplores If you put on craghead on here they filmed it made a rayt clatter they closed craghead in the 60s too
@xboxcrazee 3 жыл бұрын
There’s something similar on line of the shaft at chatterly
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 3 жыл бұрын
Ooh, I'll have a look :)
@Capt_Y_Fronts 3 жыл бұрын
@@UKAbandonedMineExplores ANOTHER ONE HERE. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/es-pa7RkvuDLl2Q.html Coal authority youtube has a few on.
@davidscanlon5132 2 жыл бұрын
Know what you should do with a flooded shaft? Stick a sump pump down there and leave it for a few days and see what happens
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 2 жыл бұрын
A bad idea if you watch the video, you see there is a huge structural failure, you remove all the water, you remove the pressure of the water on the sides, guess what then happens to tge area where its already failed?
@Brucie7702 3 жыл бұрын
We certainly have much more stylish mines, or at least mine entrances, than most american ones that ive seen
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 3 жыл бұрын
That is true.
@briansaiditsoitmustbetrue4206 3 жыл бұрын
Good video I am a bit confused ... The abandoned coal mine nearest to where I live in the UK is Sacriston Colliery it closed in 1985 I went back there to investigate and all I could see was a "Capped off" Reinforced concrete square over the top of what used to be the mine shaft and a small white diamond shape stone in the middle on the concrete. My question is HOW could you explore this abandoned mine??? It has a big square of concrete over the top of what used to be the mine shaft. Can I ask do you think it will now be flooded and full of water ...since it closed 36 Years ago.
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 3 жыл бұрын
Funnily enough, Sacriston Colliery is 20 minutes from me. This footage was provided to us by a professional survey company, but most caps have some sort of access hatch for this and maintanence. As to wether Sacriston is flooded, knowing it's location, I'd imagine so, depends on the natural level of the water table in the area, most coal mines accessed by shaft are now flooded. Irony is that it's the pressure of the water that helps preserve them.
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 3 жыл бұрын
Talking of flooded mines, we have a new video tomorrow where we get into a mine that is a wee bit flooded but nobody has been in a VERY long time.
@briansaiditsoitmustbetrue4206 3 жыл бұрын
@@UKAbandonedMineExplores Thank you for the quick reply ... You have a new subscriber ... I wonder if in the future Coal will be ever be mined again in the UK ... I know they left around 25 Years worth of coal in Kellingley Colliery when it closed in 2015.. A lot of people in the UK don't understand that coal mining is still very much in business in many countries all over the world in the such as USA, Australia, China ..It seems it is only the UK that thinks that coal is not viable anymore.. The thing is ..Once we run out of Gas and it will happen... Then we may see the need for coal once again ... I will look forward to the rest of your video's ..Kind regards Brian
@streaky81 3 жыл бұрын
@@briansaiditsoitmustbetrue4206 even gas doesn't have much of a future, beyond the next 40 years. They're already doing experiments with mixing hydrogen in, there will come a time that it'll either be everything electric or pure hydrogen if you're wanting to burn something. What happened to the UK coal industry is a sad affair for many reasons, but we've only done what is a matter of time for the rest of the world anyway - you can't fight the end of an industry that has no future. If that ever changes, which I can't imagine, there are huge reserves of coal still down there and there'll be no shortage of people willing to go down. All the European coal mines will be shut before long, the US will follow not too long after and China is already doing everything it can to move away from it.
@christopherburson2465 3 жыл бұрын
@@briansaiditsoitmustbetrue4206 Coal was used as a chemical feedstock before oil was easily available, everything from plastics to medicines were produced from it. I do wonder if future generations will mine it again to use for chemicals again, rather than as a fuel, its a valuable resource, just not viable or fashionable at this time.
@daktamorganerkhagen5891 2 жыл бұрын
Bricks in a mineshaft, don’t think so. This is a old underground tunnel system
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 2 жыл бұрын
That water must be a Snargate then ;)
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 2 жыл бұрын
Major shafts in English collieries are often brick lined.
@3bears 3 жыл бұрын
that was creepy af to watch
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 3 жыл бұрын
Ya, suppose music doesn't help lol
@3bears 3 жыл бұрын
@@UKAbandonedMineExplores as eerie as it was it was captivating and held me right to the end. Kinda gutted we didn't get to see the rubble at the bottom of the shaft! Great video!
@andquin1476 Жыл бұрын
this might sound a silly question but surely the amount of work and cost to build this from house bricks alone would cost more than the coal itself ? this would have taken years and the cost of it all is just beyond imaginable, and these were built everywhere , all over the uk..who could have financed such a build in them times , and the quality of the brick laying looks like top quality work, they were pointed up ,arch ways aswell , it makes no sense at all really when you think about it.
@UKAbandonedMineExplores Жыл бұрын
I see your point but ut must have made financial sense or it would not have been done.
@andquin1476 Жыл бұрын
@@UKAbandonedMineExplores , i live next to chatterly whitfield and read a article saying that it was some type of aircraft base before it was a mine and that was why it had such tall outbuildings, i never imagined a mine looking like that underground , there is a shaft that opened up quite recent right across from where i live , i think they said it was a bell pit or something, great video anyway,
@andquin1476 Жыл бұрын
@@UKAbandonedMineExplores i think i made the mistake of basing the financial aspect on only coal being extracted, there would have been all types of minerals mined prior to coal and worth a hell of a lot more money...could i ask what your opinion is about old churches and cathederals being old mining head gear ? or blackpool tower also looks a lot like mining structures, i think all landmarks and towers from history were former sites...im only speculating obviously, and the bell towers were a giant version of the kings hook safety device used to stop the cage falling back down the shaft?
@paulcharlton4788 Жыл бұрын
It was all massively subsidised hence why the government eventually got fed up and forced them to close.
@frankjackson8 3 жыл бұрын
Just imagine the blood, sweat and tears, quite apart from the time and cost, that went into sinking shafts like this one. But could you please explain why a 'pumping' shaft needed to be as big as 14' in diameter AND what size of engine would have been required to lift (drain) the water from the bottom of the shaft when the mine was working ?
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 3 жыл бұрын
Yes, a painfull amount of labour, all by candlelight too, must have been terrifying for the young guys. Site has only a down and up shaft so not sure why it's called the pumping shaft, unless it was repurposed after closure to keep water at a certain level? Couldn't tell you about the engine, I have zero knowledge on that regard. Glad you enjoyed.
@SimonRobinsonSRNetworks 3 жыл бұрын
@@UKAbandonedMineExplores Not certain but sometimes old shafts where used as pumping shafts when the colliery shut down. This was to drain water from other nearby working mines
@tfred6403 3 жыл бұрын
Regarding 14 ft diameter shaft: I think this was done for ventilation. Mine air flows either through vent columns which are pipes with a relatively large diameter, or through excavations, meaning tunnels and stope. Airflow occurs only when there is a force or pressure to drive it. Friction along the sides of an airway or from obstructions in it provide resistance to air flow. The larger the cross-sectional area of an airway, the less the resistance. (Is 14 feet). The bricking also helped reduce the resistance. The wall damage may have occurred from a blowout when water levels were lower. The water then filled to the blowout level.
@PaulanthonyBridge-kt4eg 8 ай бұрын
Imagine the enormous weight of several hundred metres of water. It takes serious power to pump it up to the fukin surface Susan Balavoigne.......
@WindTurbineSyndrome 2 жыл бұрын
That's a long way down
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 2 жыл бұрын
It is but compared to some shafts, only a little way down.
@stephenwhitehead1160 5 ай бұрын
Which colliery was this??
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 5 ай бұрын
Can’t give location out sorry.
@1122geoff Жыл бұрын
Could have been a pumping station to send waste water up the shaft
@UKAbandonedMineExplores Жыл бұрын
I was informed later it was one of the levels.
@victorjolley5355 3 жыл бұрын
just out of curiosity what kind of camera is that , that will take those pressures
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 3 жыл бұрын
It's something.like this : www.tester.co.uk/cctv-drain-pipe-inspection-camera-20m-30m-40m-recordable?gclid=CjwKCAjwi9-HBhACEiwAPzUhHC5cxw2-qQ1v9bYddbWpEVOTNk8cyrFJ-hsvglVFK7LWXdB3AsMnlhoCJHQQAvD_BwE
@victorjolley5355 3 жыл бұрын
@@UKAbandonedMineExplores thamks for that
@petemoss8625 3 жыл бұрын
do you know the name of pit shown in the vid, ta
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 3 жыл бұрын
Yes, I do but can't say unfortunately
@stevesims4243 3 жыл бұрын
Why not
@mrlister2000 2 жыл бұрын
@@stevesims4243 Because "urban explorers" will go and trash it, like they do at most old mines.
@artcregod Жыл бұрын
Scary as shit! 😮
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 11 ай бұрын
Yup, imagine falling in?
@PaulanthonyBridge-kt4eg 8 ай бұрын
I want this house.
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 8 ай бұрын
What house?
@leathandrubb 3 жыл бұрын
WAS THIS CHATTERLEY WHITFIELD COLLIERY?
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 3 жыл бұрын
No, they have their own video, that shaft is different.
@leathandrubb 3 жыл бұрын
OH! I'M SORRY ABOUT THAT.
@PaulanthonyBridge-kt4eg 8 ай бұрын
What, was the camera imploding ???
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 8 ай бұрын
Nope, the guys had only been commissioned to survey to that depth.
@thomasdonald3291 3 жыл бұрын
Is it a UK pit?
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 3 жыл бұрын
Indeed it is.
@mountainman6175 3 жыл бұрын
The combination of video and music sent me to sleep - in a good way :-).. The mrs watches netflix in bed, i watch mineshafts....
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 3 жыл бұрын
Lol, a comment with a difference. Thanks for feedback, glad you enjoyed :)
@keithrimmer3 3 жыл бұрын
Brill that Ste
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 3 жыл бұрын
Cheeers :)
@wateryearthdowsingsolutions 6 ай бұрын
Which mine is this please?
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 6 ай бұрын
We don’t give most line locations due to safety and preservation.
@wateryearthdowsingsolutions 6 ай бұрын
@@UKAbandonedMineExplores I am not a pot holder, I'm engaged in finding the source of pollution in a town beginning with Wh............?
@jimmykray9583 3 жыл бұрын
Freaks me out
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 3 жыл бұрын
Irs a long way down :)
@markm-ci6rj 3 жыл бұрын
I am curious at to the equipment used, what did you use to lower the camera? Mines are fascinating, if I could go back I would be a mining engineer!
@UKAbandonedMineExplores 3 жыл бұрын
I don't know, we did not make this one.
@Andy-kf4rd Жыл бұрын
Brilliantly fascinating are there anymore like this on YT
@UKAbandonedMineExplores Жыл бұрын
up, a few more if you search for 'shaft explore' )
@dfp76 Жыл бұрын
Tell you what that NCB paint still looks in good shape lol .
@UKAbandonedMineExplores Жыл бұрын
It was good stuff :)
@andywilliams949 Жыл бұрын
Really fascinating work my interest comes from my dad who was a miner here in north Wales (gresford.hafod.also ifton heath ) I loved the stories he used to tell me and I still have his work helmet
@UKAbandonedMineExplores Жыл бұрын
Yes, wish I knew a coal miner, would love to hear the stories. Thankyou :)
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