Caphouse Colliery and Coal Mine Below
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- čas přidán 11. 02. 2023
- At the National Coal Mining Museum in Wakefield today for a look about at some of our mining heritage and to see down in the old coal mine underneath the museum.
We normally visit long since closed mines so it was interesting to see what is considered a safe mine to explore and be led around by a genuine coal miner.
We finally got to travel 140 meters down a mine shaft in a cage and to ride about on a man rider from 1 pit to the other also on the museum site.
Well worth a visit if you want to hear miners tell you about there work and to look inside a coal mine with out the added danger of it collapsing, a danger we don't have on our normal explores. - Zábava
Brilliant video. . . Well done . .
The man rider you sat in ( we called those a paddy)
Six blokes would squeeze in there and on a Monday morning , after a Sunday session. . It was right rip . . 🤣🤣
Hi Monkeys
I once had the great and fascinating pleasure to go down Cardowan colliery in a village called Stepps just outside of Glasgow in 1980 when it was still a coking coal mine in full production. We were just over 2000 feet underground and ended up in a 16 inch high (gulp!) coalface three or four miles out from the shaft bottom. That faceline was incredibly loud and noisy when the shearer was running and they even let the roof down behind us a bit as they had advanced the faceline props that day. Louder than Hell itself or Metallica playing full blast in a small venue. Made you jump a bit I can tell you, although there was precious little room for jumping! Quite a visit all in and we got dropped down (very fast) by the old original steam winder that had been working since the mine was opened in 1904, I think.
On the way back we got to ride a mile or two on a man riding conveyor belt lying right on top of the coal heading back towards the shaft for taking up to the surface, which was very cool but a bit edgy because if you screwed up getting on or off it, the belt and pulley wheel's would rip you to pieces in a jiffy. Oh' and we had a proper miners shower as well after it. All the guys there were wonderful to us and I'll never forget the experience I had as long as I live. I realise that not many non-miners ever got the privilege of such a visit and it really let you see and feel what real coal miners had to risk for us all on a daily basis so that the light's stayed on and the steel got made. The whole process involved in coal mining was just remarkable to see from start to finish. God Bless those wonderful men who made it all happen.
Keep doing what you do boys and keep the content coming, it's great stuff to watch on the Tube and you make it very entertaining and fun. Be careful mind and stay safe!
All the best.
Alex
That sounds amazing must of been quite an experience. I've actually climbed up the cavity from where an 18 inch coal seam was mined out back in the early 1900s was mad seeing it still held up all this time later all the props had turned to mush, it was a scary experience can't imagine what it must of been like to have it all dropping whilst down there but your description does it justice and I bet the memory is still as strong as the day you experienced it. Thank you for your comment 🤘💙💙
@@NorthernMonkeys It was my pleasure to remember it all over again. That was just the edited highlights, so much more happened down there that day. Who said nostalgia ain't what it used to be!
Cheers Sir
Thank you for sharing your day boys. It's a shame it has all come to this. My dad used to play the guitar all across the mining towns in the 80's. They were big in South Yorkshire and I went to all the Miners clubs, social clubs and working man's clubs with him. They were always packed every day of the week because of their shift work. I could imagine a few of the miners finishing their shift " Darnt pit " having had a shower and going straight out for a beer . I was at school in them days and remember the strikes with Arthur Scargill taking on Margret Thatcher. It destroyed communities and took away the livelihood's of workers which had stood for generations.
BTW - I was talking to the mechanic in the local bike shop at Rawtenstall and his brother used to work in the mines above Burnley and Tod/Bacup where you go. It's all interesting stuff. Keep up the great work. 👍
It was mad seeing the poster where over a million employees to 0 in a matter of years. Me and the boys would of loved working darn pit 😁💙💙
when I went to National coal Mining museum it was not quite finished, so the whole place wasn;r visitable which of course it may well be now. Great Vid Guys keep them coming !
Yeah it's all open now mate and we'll worth a visit. We're going to be underground again soon and are due up on the hill behind the long causeway to do a bit of digging 😁 thanks for watching Robert 🤘💙💙
Brilliant, outstanding, fantastic video, just look at all the stuff there, all them lamps going back to the first one, there must be a working mine somewhere, that you could ask to see if you could go down, then you could see what working conditions were really like, but what a video lads,
We think there is still one coal mine where they do a bit of work even though Google says all mines are closed. I don't think they allow visitors because of health and safety but me and the lads would all love to get in a mine and do a bit of work 💙💙
I was dragged there when I was at school.. back in about 1980.
Interesting place seen last week. Bingley.. Crossflatts.. stood on the front doorstep of the Premier hotel and looking to the right up the hill there is what looks like a large chapel/church with some of the roof missing and boards over some of the windows.. Due to work I didn't have chance to go have a poke about.
Been down there 4 time's, each tour different depending on your guide, Kebab was the best guide.
nice one lads, that place is on my list to visit.
Defo worth visit for a ride down the cage and a go on the man rider, the coal mine is ok to see machines still In a mine and to hear miners talk about there jobs. 🤜🤛💙💙
Nice video boys. That place is on my to do list.
Well worth a visit mate, going down that shaft is worth it by itself best fiver I ever spent 💙💙
@@NorthernMonkeys it looked it, soon as I saw that I was like, need to do that
Couldn’t take any electrical equipment down when I went, inc watches. Defo no camera’s.
Our camera is powered by kinetic energy, the no battery rule is mad considering they give you a Chinese battery pack to power the lamp you take down with you, they also have electric lighting and comm systems underground.
The rule of not taking anything down with you is purely because they stick to what was the rule was when a working colliery.
If you allow everyone to take electrical equipment down then that’s where an issue could occur, however unlikely that may be!
They’re very open about taking cameras etc down the mine. If you contact them in advance then they would more than happily arrange for you to go down with whatever equipment it is (after being checked)
@@NorthernMonkeysThe cap lamp batteries, comms and lights are either certified FLP(Flameproof) or certified Intrinsically safe(which means under fault conditions they can’t produce a spark hot enough to ignite Methane gas).
There is a strict policy (for public safety reasons) of not allowing non-certified equipment underground….including ‘kinetic energy’ powered equipment 🤔
Fantastic place to visit
As cameras are prohibited in coal mines unless approved through testing, how did you go about getting your camera tested for underground use as legally required for coal mines? Or did you just ignore the regulations and hide it?
Cameras are taken into this mine regularly of the same type and model we used. We also have tested the camera ourselves in many coal mines, many of them with a higher chance of an explosion than here seeing as though this mine had air conditioning and the mines we normally visit don't 😁
@@NorthernMonkeys That’s not the point. All battery operated devices are banned underground unless individually be fault tested and approved prior to going underground. If the specific camera in your hands has not been fault tested then it should not be there. Mines have stringent rules for a reason and are heavily regulated by law. If you are willingly circumventing the rules by not declaring your contraband prior to going underground you are putting the staff and visitors at risk. Even if nothing happens, the mines inspectorate could close them down. For people who are apparently passionate about industrial heritage and mining, that’s a really poor attitude from you guys.
i rode the train for nought a cupple years back
Took my kids there many years ago , the guide asked an american couple where they were from and why they came , they replied Texas and they were in the area so visited, then he asked me the same question , my reply was Barnsley and now I'd visited i could put in a claim for vibration white finger , miners lung disease and industrial deafness lol
If want to go down a real drift mine then check out Apedale mining museum near stoke on Trent the run extended mine tours and it's more like the ones go down make sure y book for y go
Think caphouse was picked because it had a shaft and a drift so in the event of a power failure or winding gear problem visitors could just walk out via the drift unlike the stoke mining museum that we were unable to go down while on a school visit because of a power failure, there was a school party underground at the time who had to wait hours to be brought back up, we just got back on the bus and went to a lead mine at matlock
Looks like you had a great time guys ⛏️.
⛏️ When coal was king ⚒️⛓️⛏️
Remember finding some paddy train cars dumped on top of the stack of wath main one was a streatcher car , there were also helmets and a big pile of knee pads , all gone one though .
Nice video again lads. Shame about the abrupt ending. Did battery run out? 😂
Yeah 🤣 couldn't even get to the dig on the way home either because we forgot all our power leads 🤦♂️ we really need to start planning better 🤣💙💙
@@NorthernMonkeys 😂 give yaselves a job each. One for planning,
One for preparing and One for driving, Bruce can do the last bit 😂
We're normally ok but been out the game a bit all just think the others will remember 🤣💙💙
@@NorthernMonkeys haha be reet 👍
So close to so much more.... Did you even ask if there was an escape route if the lift failed?
The caps on Caphouse are by the roundabout at the top(ish) of the hill.
Supposedly, there's a few openings on route back in to Hudds
Yeah out the drift entrance the miner told us. We drove past 1 of the capped shafts on the way to the museum I presume if they're as far away as you say.
@@NorthernMonkeys There's 2 together right on the corner you turn off the roundabout, normally covered by trees/shrubs etc. Though I think it's Shuttle Eye colliery, now I think on.
There's a few remains in Flockton, Mirfield & Lepton and there's a few pumps scattered about. I lifted the cover off one (Which you would have passed) I just cant remember if you can get down it.
How was you filming underground.its against the law to take anything electric underground
Hope you didnt get caught wi camera