Hidden mine found at Rastrick Quarry

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Ian A
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9 years ago

I guess this won't be around for very long ....

http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/

Looks interesting though :)

Ian

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Morlock
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9 years ago

looks like Fireclay workings in 1888-1892?

http://maps.nls.uk/view/100948184

Changed a bit in 1905.

http://maps.nls.uk/view/100948181

rikj
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9 years ago

It will be for Elland Flags (edit: he confirms that in the video). Lots of fireclay mines around there so there will almost certainly be some nearby, just on a different horizon.

There is a BGS report on the Elland Flag mining, will have a look later to see if a mine is listed on the quarry site..

Morlock
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9 years ago

"rikj" wrote:
It will be for Elland Flags (edit: he confirms that in the video). Lots of fireclay mines around there so there will almost certainly be some nearby, just on a different horizon.

Looks as if it's at the group of quarries a little further south?

Morrisey
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9 years ago

It appears to be in incredibly good condition - shame it's gonna disappear before anyone sees it....... Rik :angel:

rikj
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9 years ago

"Morlock" wrote:
Looks as if it's at the group of quarries a little further south?

Looks to be, though some will have been land filled since. A fascinating area that you could look around for years finding things.

A cod history of Elland Flags mining here:

http://www.stoneroof.org.uk/elland.html

not 100% accurate I suspect, though it has a pic of underground workings exposed at another quarry 🙂. A lot of the stone mines were very small, miners often leased a field at a time. And little remains as the lease usually stated the shafts had to be filled when working finished.

The main visual remains are the impressive judd walls, built around the fields to contain the spoil.

"Morrisey" wrote:
It appears to be in incredibly good condition - shame it's gonna disappear before anyone sees it....... Rik :angel:

I'm sure it will be far too well squeaked up ::)

Morlock
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9 years ago

An interesting bit of reading.:)

AR
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9 years ago

I recall coming across a large planning app while working for Bradford Council which had been quite troubled with stone mining, they'd put boreholes down and were finding voids all over the place... I can't remember whether it went ahead or not, but if it did there must have been some major grouting done!

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rikj
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9 years ago

"AR" wrote:
I recall coming across a large planning app while working for Bradford Council which had been quite troubled with stone mining, they'd put boreholes down and were finding voids all over the place... I can't remember whether it went ahead or not, but if it did there must have been some major grouting done!

Apparently as far back as the 1870s some areas of West Yorkshire were considered unsuitable for building due to shallow stone workings.

In 1974 in Peel Park, Bradford, the City Engineers started storing topsoil in an old quarry. In 1977 the weight of the soil caused a 56ft deep collapse into old stone workings. To their credit they went in and had a look around a maze of unmapped galleries before backfilling the hole.

I'm fairly confident there are a whole lot of largely unknown stone mines in West and North Yorkshire waiting to be found.