Whale Sough and Hubberdale mine walk this Sunday

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AR
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15 years ago

If anyone's around in the Peak District this Sunday without anything better to do, there's a PDMHS walk (non-members welcome) looking at Whale Sough and the Hubberdale mines starting from Hard Rake layby at 10.30. The wild flowers in Deepdale should be out and looking their best, you'll just have to put up with someone waffling about a load of lumps and bumps in the ground.....

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

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ttxela
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15 years ago

Unfortanately won't be about this weekend but had a look down there a few months ago.

What's the access to Whale Sough? Had a peer down the shaft with the "fixed ::) " ladder. Have heard it's a wet trip best done in a dry spell?

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It's definitely one to do in a dry spell unless your ears need a wash..... If the flow from the sough tail has stopped I'm intending to have another try at getting up to the collapse shortly, hopefully without freezing water in the flat-out crawling section!

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

derrickman
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15 years ago

if you rate it as "wet" it must be pretty grim....

''the stopes soared beyond the range of our caplamps' - David Bick...... How times change .... oh, I don't know, I've still got a lamp like that.

ttxela
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15 years ago

Never found the sough tail, mind you didn't have much time to look. Is the collapse between the laddered shaft and the tail?

AR
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15 years ago

The tail isn't that far downstream from the laddered shaft - there are five other shafts before it, three in good condition, one dug out in the 1980s and replaced with a concrete pipe and one starting to collapse which needs capping off above the sough and backfilling - this gives more detail http://leadmines.conforums.com/index.cgi?board=hubbadale&action=display&num=1232709715 . UpstreamThe sough turns under the hillside and heads westwards, the collapse is somewhere in the region of Wheal lane.

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

ttxela
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15 years ago

Ah, so whale sough and Huberdale sough are one and the same?

A shame we live so far away, we do come up and stay at Magpie from time to time so perhaps we could join with the work at some point?