Had an invite from Mike Moore - moorebooks - to have a look in here.
The shropshire mine trust control access which needs bca insurance.
They can be contacted through him.
Our guide for the day was Andrew Wood
We got there in our landy with no heater, well JD had a gas heater to keep ice off the inside of the windows, and met the others by the shed with well shaft in. They were putting in a new pump for the village water supply. There was lots of machinery there from old pumps.
We went over to rubbish shaft by the old ladies folly, a tunnel under the road, I was lifelined down the fixed ladder to the mine levels.
The mines have been worked over lots of times with the old coffin levels dug away by latter tunnels
http://www.shropshirecmc.org.uk/sites/clive.html http://shropshiremines.org.uk/misc/clive.htm First we went to look at a stope down to lower levels that connected back to well shaft, then back under rubbish shaft and belayed across a winze that also linked to well shaft and lower levels. We followed the large passage along past holes from collapsed false floors to lower levels. There were many small coffin levels going off to the sides and small shafts in the roof and sides that were run in. One had lots of roots hanging down. We saw lots of copper stains. there was some managanese and cobalt as well. The main passage followed a fault with slickensides and there was lots of layered rust stains making pretty patterns. We got to a hole in the floor just before a forefield and jd pointed out some triangle crossection drill holes. How were they drilled? We also saw soot and stemple holes to make a brattice to keep the air fresh. We made our way back and passed another group going in, and left the mine with Mike. He showed us the local pub The Railway where they had a real fire to keep us warm.
Part of the pumping stuff over well shaft.
Looking down the stope
JD in a forefield
Looking up rubbish shaft
The ledges and rope across the top of the 80 foot winze
Me in a well picked coffin level
Slickensides on the fault
Copper stains on the walls
Brains in a roomy coffin level
JD on a stemple by the collapsed floor to the lower level
Brains in the backfilled area under the road
Iron stains on the walls
More iron stains
JD climbing up into old man stuff above the main passage
Brains coming up the rubbish shaft
The old ladies folly tunnel under the road