Peggy's Mine: Coal extracted from the back garden of a semi-detached house

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JMB
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15 years ago

In today's Daily Mail with a couple of pictures

Peggy's Mine: Coal extracted from the back garden of a semi-detached house

Last updated at 10:35 PM on 20th July 2010

Nowadays, the idea of building a coal mine in your back yard would have the health and safety inspectors frothing at the mouth.

But in the aftermath of the Second World War, an entrepreneurial spirit was needed to get Britain back on its feet.

So father-of-four Bramwell Pashley studied old mine plans to trace coal seams and used his life savings to buy a semi-detached house right over one.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1296355/Peggys-Mine-Coal-extracted-garden-semi-detached-house.html#ixzz0uGMQnzlm

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Vanoord
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15 years ago

Great Scott!

That's quite a photograph - http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/07/21/article-1296355-0A812744000005DC-94_634x412.jpg

It is indeed a semi-detached house with a coal mine in the garden! 😮

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lawsonium
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15 years ago

Ok, that would be awesome. haha.
My dream of course would be to have a house with a climbable quarry on the property. Annoyingly, I actually know of such a place. In fact, I once visited it and you would quite literally be able to belay people from the bedroom window!!!

Nom nom nom.

mistericeman
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15 years ago

I posted a clip of this a while back ........

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=46552

cracking stuff

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ICLOK
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15 years ago

There was a fabulous piece on Calender TV last night inc footage of the mine working and the owner cutting coal! :thumbup:

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh Creeper!!!!!

cobba
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15 years ago

Seem to remember being told that a few pubs in Atherstone had a seam visible in their cellars,also back gardens being dug up in hard times

cobba

simonrl
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15 years ago

That's a great clip, thanks mistericeman :thumbsup:

my orders are to sit here and watch the world go by

ICLOK
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15 years ago

Blimey... this is very true we had 2 seams visible in our local disused railway cutting at Heanor which yielded nice coal... which yes we did dig out... and we did try selling!!! without success... we never sold a plastic bucket full by the time we were ten!!!! :lol:

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh Creeper!!!!!

Dochol
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15 years ago

Can anyone confirm what's on the site today? Any pics?

Cyril Maurice
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14 years ago

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As far as I know the M1 was built over this area.

There was a shaft still open, but covered with a grid, on a corner at Durkar Low Lane, nearby but I don't this had anything to do with Peggy tub Main.

Cyril

AR
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14 years ago

#11

My grandad lives nearby and knew Bram Pashwell, he remembers the mine being worked.

Follow the horses, Johnny my laddie, follow the horses canny lad-oh!

rikj
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14 years ago

#12

"Dochol" wrote:
Can anyone confirm what's on the site today? Any pics?

My best guess is that it's under the southbound sliproad onto the M1. Glad this thread has been resurrected as it's made me have another look for the site. Best guess is the shaft and gantry marked towards the lefthand side of this screen capture from the 1955-1962 1:2500 OS, screen grabbed from old-maps.

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Seems to fit in terms of the orientation of the surrounding features. Possibly. Hopefully AR's grandfather may be able to confirm or otherwise someday!

P.S. There is a story doing the rounds on the net that places Peggy Tub mine about 6 miles away, near Flockton. Despite it being a completely different sort of house. I think someone has been given some duff info, but being the net, it spreads.

mistericeman
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14 years ago

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Hmmm this debate has been going on for a good while now between me,the Mrs (she lives over in the foreign country known as Yaarkshire,in Upper Denby) and a couple of other folks ...

http://www.urbexforums.co.uk/showthread.php/10524-One-man-s-dream-became-reality- !-quot-The-Ultimate-DIY-er-quot

Whether this is the same place or not ???? .

The trouble is the land over there is bloody riddled with "coil oils" and "Day oils"

In fact on the way home from her house one night we stopped for a brief look at "Sally wood" summat and nowt now but probably provided a bit of local coal for local people a few years ago .

Aditaddict
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14 years ago

#14

Here's yet another one man outfit
not in his garden but still a nice little clip !

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=36254