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It’s lovely to see that it has having some love put back into it. As a younger kid living there we all used to go in there explore and play games even the showers near the pit stop before they got knocked down for the new build housing. There used to be a challenge for new times to tie a bedsheet to the top. That’s a propper childhood no smashing stuff up just pure exploration and friendship. Thanks for making me smile. S.

The Thatcher burial of our industrial heritage! Mark my words, they will have to return to the massive cosl reserves in the UK. But probably not in my lifetime. Ex miner 80 years old.

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Such a shame

Foam concrete isn’t the best choice get a lot of shrinkage

I worked in the shaft there when they had water leaking in it

Absolutely criminal 🤦

I would think the men down below would be well protected, the amount of times you mentioned it , 😅

We should be mining there not hosting events😔

They usually fill the shafts with inert rock, allowing for methane venting and cap with concrete. I remember the large piles of stones they used to fill the shafts at Bickershaw Colliery. Clipstone shafts were quite deep if I remember around 3000ft

What an absolute waste. I voted for the remnants of the colliery to remain standing but apparently 67% of the vote was in favour of demolishing it.

Is the shaft filled in before capping?

Did removing the cap reveal an empty shaft top to bottom or was it filled in under the cap ?

Why are they removing the cap?

My Dad carried out this work in Northumberland. One particular mine he did was High Pit at Cramlington. Dad described that job as needing the most concrete they ever worked with. He described the end cap as being shaped like a concrete top hat but upside down and plugging into the old shafts.

The shafts where the elevators used to move are fully filled? Is there any chance these will ever be reopened?

Well, the training gallery sign deffenately looks like an NCB Colliery sign. Can anyone give any details to the whereabouts. Please. Did I hear Clipstone? KING CLIPSTONE . Out ascape route frome Warsop Main Colliery ? When I was an 18 Yr old face trainee on 90s and 91s coal faces. ? Any info welcome duck !

I'd like to thank the British government for going along with the shear bull shit of so-called climate warming , distroying an whole industry only for our grand children to say , what the Fu#k was they thinking ?

Used to be our emergency ascape route when i worked at Warsop Main. Before Warsop and Shirebrook joined in the Deep Soft seam.

what a waste of time and money ;; no wonder the countrys f---------, typical british scared industry ,

Why are you recapping it?

So sad your filling this stuff in, I know the shafts are done, but you’re destroying the place.

It's a shame it's all being filled in tbh, they should just pour money into turning the whole thing into a massive tourist attraction, seeing the coal face, riding the train below ground etc. So much potential for many old collieries but instead they just fill them all in and forget about them :/

good old Cempump doin what they do best 👌👌

Where do you send the bill ,should of been sorted by UK coal

I played at this first game at the head stocks. It is such an impressive site whether it’s airsoft or a guided tour. I hope it gets the investment it deserves in order to further preserve it.

Are they keeping the head frames up .

The last thing we need is collieries closing with the coming energy shortage. I'll stop burning fossil fuels when saddam Hussein and Jimmy Savile are confirmed as having come back from the dead.

Very sad and very terminal and some day we will regret it ,terminal destruction of our capacity to manufacture ,fuel manufacturing and just a final note in the recent cold snap what did we have to put on stand by ,coal fired electric generation ,the wind does not blow all the time ,we are decommissioning nuclear power stations because of their age ect it will come full circle ,what about our endeavours at Grimethorpe developing clean coal technology ,pulled because of privatisation.

Great little video mate. When did they carry out the removal and replacement of the old shaft capping?

Great footage, shame there is not more content like this on youtube. Its amazing what is below your feet and you are unaware of.