they couldnt even spell his name correctly on the rock inscription

Another piece of history told !❤️🎥🙏🏼 thanks David your are a legend !💪🏼⛏️

Great to see you Dave at the museum. This is the mine we was on about isn’t it I’d love to go meet them I know a few of the characters there like Andy and Margaret. Great footage too class at it’s finest my friend

You may be interested to know that we (p8 diggers) see Haileys sump every year now and frequently the main streamway is dry, although sump 1 is often blocked and would need digging out

Thanks for the tour around high rake surface features and down the engine shaft ! Regards Antonio 🙋🏻‍♂️🙏🏼❤️⛏️

I remember a few episodes where I was led by Geoff Cox down the ladders to the Ecton chamber .... itd be fascinating to drop a waterproof camera down those flooded shafts

Subscribed sir!

"Underground Adventure" was screened last night (010923) at Wirksworth Heritage Centre to about 80 people. This epic adventure may be well known around Derbyshire but is also worthy of national recognition. It's a nice surprise to have this interview which provides lots of additional information.

The film was screened last night (010923) at Wirksworth Heritage Centre to about 80 people. This epic adventure may be well known around Derbyshire but is also worthy of national recognition. Well done to all involved!

Great video. Greetings from Germany

Well done.Well done,in deed.👏👏👏👏

Wonder if they ever found any vintage Levies in those mines , would be worth a fortune.....lol

Would love to metal detecting their waste piles I do this in the USA with good finds.

Fascinating 😺

Great video. Amazing to see what is going on in a hollow hill from the other side of the planet. Thanks!

Recently missed a trip here with pudhms. I’m certainlh looking forward to going now I’ve seen this David . Great job as always

Watched this last night. Wow what a great video, very informative. Did only a few, pot holing trips in the past! But not to this vastness. Brilliant loved it 👍🤟🏼🙏🏻🤍

Thanks again for uploading all these wonderful films.

Very interesting, brings back memories of a visit to some parts

Thank's David that was a very informative film, I had my first trip around these mines in the late 60s early 70s and went back in 2019 so much has changed on the surface lots of trees and vegetation nowadays It's still a fascinating place to go underground here.

Very informative and Interesting. Thanks for posting.👍

Thanks David, more wonderfull content beautifully done.

Brilliant, great footage of Geoff Cox

Very interesting thank you

Great video, intrigued with the comment that this is only one of two known bronze age mining sites... I'm guess either Alderley had not been officially recognised at the time or the Great Orme? Of course Parys mountain is on the list now too I guess!

Thanks for this Doug was a dear friend and sadly missed

Thanks for this Dave, great little programme. Best wishes, Nige

Thanks David, I'd not seen this video before. Incidentally, a small sample was taken from one of the large diameter holes, as well as the small 3/4 inch shotholes. Also a control sample from the general area was taken & all were later analysed by SEM for minute traces of blast residue. Unfortunately the results were inconclusive but if anyone else would like to try a different technique, I still have the samples sealed in glass vials. Its certainly a fascinating place & one perhaps worthy of more study. Best wishes Nigel

Excellent (as usual)

Thanks for taking the time to upload - wonderful stuff.

Thanks that is a fantastic piece of history preserved.

Awesome 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼so great to see the Legend of Dough Nash !

An excellent documentary on the background for the film, Dave, I really enjoyed watching that. Doug was a man of many parts, as you probably know, in addition to his caving exploits. I remember one evening, after a good caving session with Keith Joule in Stoney Middleton, we met up with John and Doug in the Miners, and Doug spent the best part of an hour describing his wartime exploits, organising what might be euphamistically termed "ambulance logistics" in Italy - that would have made a book in its own right.

Brilliant, thanks Dave

Wonderfull stuff.

I grew up in Bradwell 19 63-76 and spent some time exploring the caves locally , including the old smelter tunnels , now built over . I managed to get as far as the second sump in 1976. it brought back some memories . State of the art ; great bit of filming .

Wow, brilliant film! Made me feel lucky to be warm and dry 😁. Must have been tiring for them.

Great video, very dramatic....especially the music!

Nice to Nice see you uploading this stuff! These films have become a part of caving history in a way that we did not realise when we made them.

Brilliant film, thanks for looking after it so well!

That footage is amazing my friend greetings from Scotland to you

Thanks David, what an absolutely cracking piece of film.

Great watch , cheers

Fantastic

Long time since I was down P8 with Ben

I thought they shut treadstone down.

Another great video. The walls looked the same as the calcification on the walls of Harecastle Tunnel on the Trent and Mersey canal. Never really thought where you would go when caving if you were caught short.....Now I know!

My second home Great little video David

Brilliant to see! Sad I didn't think of checking the sumps over the drought this year. I usually avoid P8 when its dry as it seems a bit sad when its not at its full famed sporting wetness.

Such an insane story. We visited her for the first time this year, taken by the parents in law (I'd never heard of it). I get quite claustrophobic occasionally so was pretty wary of going in, especially with a baby and a 5 year old. Luckily, the tour guide was outstanding, and my love of history (and my knees holding up for the low ceiling part) kept me going right until the end. It was such an amazing place. Once everyone had gone (we stayed to give the kids some food) I asked the tour guide if people ever got lost or trapped.... He said "yeah, there's still one in there now, poor lad". I looked it up as soon as I was home. Literally my worst fear (apart from drowning) and wondered why anyone would ever go so deep. And how couldn't they get him out? (In my head out was all fairly open just steep and maybe the occasional hole....I ended up watching a ton of videos of people going that route....I couldn't believe the amount of pin hole sized access and contortion inducing terrain they had to navigate. It made me physically anxious but I couldn't stop watching. Such an amazingly tragic story. Hopefully one day your documentary might be uploaded as no where seems to have it stocked. I don't know why it still intreagues me so much. Thank you!