http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entr...b05c52666ed843

 

I'll be getting my ropes out to.orrow to go take a look down this....

 

Scorrier hah I'm only a mile away from there,seen it happen before.

Love the music very apt

Might see if i can have a butchers.

 

Wow - you could build the ULTIMATE wine cellar

mb

 

Wasn't owner trying to sell ?

must be well pissed

 

He could so turn that into a selling point. How about a posh well?

 

Ironic really as this one opens Kellingley shaft is being filled with concrete today

 

Are the police looking into it?

 

I'd start offering rubbish clearence on the cheap till it was full lol

 

Ropes, resin bolts, drills, harness and SRT kit in the van, off to go abseil down this now!

Will try get some pictures if it is safe enough...

 

It looks like a test hole for footings for an extension, you know the one, building inspector, just a bit deeper!

 

This is what happens when people don't inspect properly lol. You would have thought someone might have noticed the 12" timbers while digging the foundations.....

The timber sollar has rotted away to nothing and just fallen in on its self. This would have been the original cap when the mine closed, which got covered in debris and forgotten about!

 

I surmise elderly resident who hadn't been outside for last thirty years

 

Lucky half the house isn't down it.

And it would have been hand-dug too. Look at all that rock........

 

This is a typical cornish steam drilled shaft.

You can tell by how square it is, hand dug shafts are more rounded and jagged. A biG square shaft like this is a hauling shaft, it may have had a man lift in it too. It would have been dug late 1880s with steam drills and blasting.

Anything hand dug would be pre 1880, very easy to distinguish between hand dug and machine. They literally made it as small as possible to reduce labour costs. Usually coffin shaped and barely big enough to stoop through.

Shafts like this were often made on failing mines to impress share holders and convince them to invest more money because it looked spectacular....

 

Couple sheets of mdf over the top, back fill and job Done.

 

Quote of the day...

When the missus told me the kids were outside playing minecraft. This is not what I was expecting...

 

Thanks for the explanation, J.

 

Are you working on this? I thought it would have been done by now, but I guess it took a while to clear the shafts of all the cables etc. It's still a bit of a mind **** to think of all those miles of roadways and equipment just left down there, unlikely ever to be seen again.

 

Not me but one of my mates has just finished there. I think the final pour went in on Tuesday. I agree about all the equipment, there are literally hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of gear down all the mines that have closed around here. Apparently it isn't economically viable to dismantle and retrieve it, seems a real waste to me

 

Same deal with all boring machines used for the likes of the channel tunnel etc. One of them went all the way through, one is in a branch off the main tunnel never to see the light of day again.

 

Just had a survey done for the land where we are building (near Hayle, so not as full of mines as Scorrier), but I think we need another one for shafts. Apparently the shaft survey is just a database/map check to see if there are any shafts listed there. The problem with that is there are plenty of service shafts and vents that aren't on the lists.

 

And plenty that are pre-regulation, meaning they were never submitted to plan anyway!

Sounds like you need some drilling work done

 

Yeah, might be worth doing it. Only thing is that it's family land (200 years+) and there has been no down shafts there in that time. There might be cross shafts, but they will be x00ft down and it's next to my parents house, which has never had any issues. The neighbours built their place in the 70s, not sure if they would have had the surveys done back then.

 

This is quite useful to see what area not to buy a house in.

http://mapapps2.bgs.ac.uk/coalauthority/home.html

 

Just found this

http://www.itv.com/news/calendar/201...ys-main-shaft/