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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Used to be our emergency ascape route when i worked at Warsop Main. Before Warsop and Shirebrook joined in the Deep Soft seam.
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
At Six Bells, South Wales, they brought a Panzer up and all the buildings went down the shaft on that.
I worked in the shaft there when they had water leaking in it
Is the shaft filled in before capping?
yes, 100,000 tons of stone went down.
Why are you recapping it?
the Coal Authority insist
Some things never change with the Coal Authority then...
Pecker out 3 feet of existing solid concrete to replace with...3 feet of concrete...🙄