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wase
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17 years ago

Hello,
First i must confess i have no history with coal mining.
I am a drainage consultant based in Worksop.
I have been asked to investigate a culvert (Sough, Adit), which is believed to have served the Colliery.
The only plans i have show the culvert crossing Mill Lane and into the housing estate just by the reed beds.
We plan to CCTV inspect the culvert and are hoping someone nows where it goes, where it comes from etc.
Thanks for any help.
And if my services are needed by anyone feel free to ask.

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ICLOK
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17 years ago

Have you contacted British Coal.... can you give me grid ref for outlet?

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh Creeper!!!!!

carnkie
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17 years ago

As ICLOCK mentions I would think BC the place to start.

http://www.coal.gov.uk/services/miningrecords/index.cfm

The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.

JohnnearCfon
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17 years ago

"carnkie" wrote:
As ICLOCK mentions I would think BC the place to start.

http://www.coal.gov.uk/services/miningrecords/index.cfm

(Can't do this automatic link business.)

It is really easy to do (thanks for making it so Simon)

After you have typed (or pasted) in the web address, highlight the whole of the address with your mouse, then press the button just above the box you are typing in and Hey Presto!

[url]http://www.coal.gov.uk/services/miningrecords/index.cfm

[tweak]Fixed the link 😉 has to be a full link including the http:// prefix - basically just copy and paste from teh address bar of the page you want to link to[/tweak]

carnkie
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17 years ago

Magic, thanks, and thanks to Simon. :thumbsup:

The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.

JohnnearCfon
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17 years ago

I should have gone back to the thread to check I had done it right! I must have included the http bit in the past when I had done it! :oops:

jagman
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17 years ago

"wase" wrote:
Hello,
First i must confess i have no history with coal mining.
I am a drainage consultant based in Worksop.
I have been asked to investigate a culvert (Sough, Adit), which is believed to have served the Colliery.
The only plans i have show the culvert crossing Mill Lane and into the housing estate just by the reed beds.
We plan to CCTV inspect the culvert and are hoping someone nows where it goes, where it comes from etc.
Thanks for any help.
And if my services are needed by anyone feel free to ask.

And if you need suitably foolish people to take a proper look some of us have done a few redundant collieries before 😉
They come with their own unique hazards.....
It's fairly likely that the CCTV won't get in that far

LeeW
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Newbie

17 years ago

It's not a sough or adit, it'll be a some drainage culvert.

There was a old culvert which flooded when they built the new houses, but I think it got replaced with a bigger new culvert which runs along Mill Lane down the front of the gardens.

I've not been up there since we move our offices from the colliery site.

There's also the tip drainage and there's a water works at the bottom of the road on Common Road

I went in a mine once.... it was dark and scary..... full of weirdos

When do I get my soapbox, I need to rant on about some b***cks

carnkie
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17 years ago

I think just about here then. I really must get out more. 😉

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The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.

LeeW
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Newbie

17 years ago

#10

That's near enough, not sure where the 'culvert' is though.
The spoil heap / landfill is obvious, Mill Lane is the road that runs along the northern edge of the tip, it bends north infront of the old colliery buildings.
The old colliery buildings are those white buildings in the top right.

I went in a mine once.... it was dark and scary..... full of weirdos

When do I get my soapbox, I need to rant on about some b***cks