Does anyone have any history re Hanging Flat at Stoney M?

My oldest memory is of late 1980s when the adit was fully open inside a wooden building. Obviously the last working was recent, plastic ducting etc.

It looks as though an attempt was made to drive into a rift which is boulder filled, so they did a side drive with short crosscuts into the rift attempting to find open ground. Doubt anything was produced.
My quick take on it. So anyone have any facts?

I was in Sunday, hadn't been in for years.

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My understanding is that it was being worked by parallel driveage, rather like Milldam and Sallet Hole though on a much smaller scale. I don't know how much they actually got out of there, Staffordshirechina may remember the place actually working?

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Andy Broadhurst was the last one to own it and run it Also opencasted on tideswell moor

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Andy Broadhurst was the last one to own it and run it Also opencasted on tideswell moor

Any idea of the year or what if anything was produced, please?

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Broadhurst ran it for spar and sold it to Laportes

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Think it was done and dusted by 87 peak practice filmed in there I think in 92 ish

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It adds up, cheers.

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Believe the vein was stopped to surface and mostly backfilled. Drafting hollows up the valley side and some drafts in the chokes tend to support this idea. There was some working below the road level, but these are very totty now. The internal shaft in the timbered area is in a false floor made of steel sheet on girders.

I can remember going in there before it was last worked, during the previous working (early 70's?).
There was a shed built around the entrance, a small tip outside and a knackered 360 excavator beached in such a position that it could load lorries.
The last working pretty well finished off what was available.

Hello Roy,
That's a coincidence, as a small group of us visited Hanging Flat last Tuesday 20th. Worked for fluorspar in the late 1970s / early 1980s (Info from C of the PD - 2010 Edition).
The first time, I explored the mine, wooden doors were in place at the entrance, can't remember the year.
Re: Peak Practice - On a previous visit, I placed a laminated information pouch(including copy of cutting below) in the mine for the benefit of future explorers (Sadly water has penetrated the pouch, but I will get it replaced).
In one of my scrap books, I have a cutting from 'Radio Times'(I think) advertising actual episode and including a colour picture underground in one of the locations used. Episode was in Third Series and titled 'Light at the End of the Tunnel' and featured Kevin Whately! Shown on Tuesday 31 January, but no year on cutting!
I do have this episode on VHS, but could do with transferring it to a DVD. Noted that Peak Practice is presently being repeated on one of the many channels.
Cheers, Paul.

Big Thanks

I have Caves of the Peak District, but no Hanging Flat, its 1991 edition! How time flies!

Was the mine originally a lead working?

I think it would be very good to update the description on here, I will put something together from the info provided, and post to this thread for comment.

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I do remember on my single visit years ago, on a litter-collection trip with PDMHS, some natural cave development crosses the main tunnel just after it branches into two, but I have no idea if that's a remnant of the Layby Pot passages to the west. Can't remember any obvious way into anything though. The timbered/steelwork section was very sketchy and I climbed up a little way, but it looked like even coughing might bring it down so we scarpered.

I've just uploaded the Hanging Flat extract from Doug Nash's files, and there's a few bits of interest. The vein at the end is Needham's or Brushfield Rake:

https://www.aditnow.co.uk/personalfiles/personal-files-7927/ 

Paul, the document makes interesting reading. Really aught to be uploaded to the mine, unless copyright or other issues?

There is a lot more to the place than meets the casual eye.

I do have to confess a fascination with Middleton Dale. Lots of roadside quarry remains. About half way up on the left an explosives store at top of a flight of steps. Steel door on the detonator side is still locked, but a hole knocked in the wall reveals wooden shelves and remains of cardboard boxes.

I can still remember the days you could park on a Sunday
:lol:

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OK Roy, it's up there now - should have done that earlier!

It's a shame there's only a 2m-res DTM available for that area as it's a bit too crude to detect much. But the vein can be seen to the west on the old map and is just visible on the DTM:

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=17&lat=53.28085&lon=-1.69172&layers=168&right=LIDAR_DTM_2m 

I will probably climb up and have a damn good mooch this weekend, if its not chucking down or more lockdowns.

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Plenty of history down stoney dale. there were 4 quarries in total and plenty of small spar workings theres another just above where Lords cupola was which is where rock mill is. last worked in the 70s might be dodgy though as Goddards quarry was right behind it.

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