The Chatterly Whitfield mine. My wife and I went about 700 foot down the shaft when the museum was open. Should be preserved as a memorial for all brave men that worked as miners and made this country great.
Guys, very interisting and I like how respectful you are to the buildings. I worked in the mining industry as a mechanic underground in the South Wales coalfield. At the height of mining there was over 1000 mines in the region, some with over 1500 men employed in the larger mines. The fan you referred to does not force air downwards, rather it sucked it out through what is know as the evasse, the tunnel you could see leading to the fan. The shaft is known as the upcast. The other shaft is where the air goes down and is known as the downcast. In the lockers area, each worker would have 2 lockers, one a dirty locker and the other a clean locker separated by the showers. You left your clean clothes in the clean locker and walkes through naked to the dirty area where you put on your working clother which were filthy by the end of the week. The journey was reversed when leaving after a shift. So sad to see it destroyed. Good luck to you lads.
Brilliant as all ways guys What a shame that after all the work to restore the site it ultimately fails and has been left to root away, this is our industrial heritage we loosing 😢
Great film boys. Nice to see some young uns taking interest in Britain’s mining heritage. So sad that it’s been let fall into disrepair but I’m afraid that anything to do with coal mining is something to be brushed under the carpet now a dirty word. Cmon people coal have this country everything we have today. When you think of some of the shit that lottery money gets spent on it beggars belief that something so relevant to our heritage can just be left to rot. Very sad indeed. All those miners I salute you!
This is your best explore yet, what an amazing place. I was taken to see a mine rescue station with the Scouts and we were meant to go to a local pit to go down to the coal face, but unfortunately it didn't happen. That was in the 1970's.
This coal mine would of been immense in its hayday Thank you for ensuring that history is not forgotten and is indeed kept alive You have guts and courage to do what you do
You should pressure the government to save the machines that can be many look like they would be restoreable with little effort, working or not it would make a great museum with what good machines there is just at that mine. Thank you for letting me see them before they rusted away or got scraped .there are many people in the us saving machines like those some running it is a great thing to see .if your generation does not make an effort to save such things they will soon be gone & no one will be able to see them!!!
At 2:20, you said the fan was too push air down the shaft. If nobody else has said earlier, the air in a British coal mine was actualy sucked through the mine so that any gases were pulled out withe foul air.
At 11.05, the tracks you were walking along, were for the larger 7ton mine cars, which would have had the coal. They would have been turned over, the the coal would have been sent via conveyor belt to the wash plant.
You boys are really taken some big chances doing what your doing, climbing up on that gantry stand. Reminds me of the crap me and my best pals did, back when I was young and dumb.
Did a tour of this place on a heritage weekend recently and NONE of these buildings you could go anywhere near . Back when it was a museum I went down the mine itself , interesting to to see inside them . There is a FB group trying to restore and record history of the site by ex workers but they are only allowed on site a morning a week !! Its owned by the local council now and like many other historic buildings in the area its been left to rot and die
Brilliant second part of that awesome site ! Really enjoyed every second of both videos ! Great history recorded to the generations to come ! And thx for feeding my fear of heights with that climb .. lol.
Thank you. Yes it is - as far as I’m aware in German coal mines all the buildings are connected? With this one everything is independently situated so they easily build a new structure if needed.
@@Urbandoned Most of the big ones are indeed connected. What I noticed is that is doesn't have a basket room where they would store their clothes, quite interesting.
Nice explore lads I know that location but I won't mention it to protect it from Arseholes With Aerosols The museum had to close when the lower levels flooded and underground tours were no longer possible The neighbouring pit had the pumps that kept this one dry and when it was closed the pumps were switched off and the flooding began Well done guys 👍
so sad to see these mines and communities dying . it happened all over britain in different industries . we had a buy british campaign back in the 80s and 90s , it didnt work because british products where too expensive . the unions where fighting for higher wages and the product was costing more to produce . that is why india and china have so much of a strangle hold on manufacturing now .
You said the machie did something to the train car as it passed thru...it did not.That machine was put there after they decided to not use the car track any longer...6:37.
Well lads absolutely fabulous video would you be university students by any chance one thing on the video I could not see any sense in putting your life in danger by climbing the rusting away headgear not worth a life is it not much point you coming to Wales looking for abandoned mine because they've taken them away we have one or two well run mining museums though well done chaps enjoyed it
When you go trespassing on these sites it becomes more likely that the local authorities or the coal authorities will demolish it so its gone for ever destroying it for everybody, Even the group that runs this site are not allowed in the buildings due to the dangerous condition
Maybe so, but the sites are neglected and falling down anyway. If it were not for these guys we would not know they existed. My uncles were miners, they risked and shortened their lives providing fuel and power for the country. As Harold Macmillan said "they are not the scum of the earth, they're the men who beat the Kaiser's army". This neglect is part of the vilification of the working class which began with Thatcher and continues today. The Welsh honour their miners and keep their memory alive with the Big Pit. Sadly the English have taught their children to despise them and their values.
