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Moorebooks Joined: 28/11/2007 Location: Newport, Shropshire View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 14/12/2009 13:15:39 Reply | Quote Does anyone know what can be found here are there any open workings? Mike IP: 92.42.56.244 |
rhychydwr Joined: 09/06/2007 Location: Cwmparc, Rhondda, South Wales, UK. View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 14/12/2009 18:33:19 Reply | Quote Yes -- Cutting coal in my spare time. IP: 78.147.81.235 |
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Moorebooks Joined: 28/11/2007 Location: Newport, Shropshire View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 14/12/2009 19:01:58 Reply | Quote yes okay I was anticipating chapter on verse what levels are open, what to see etc etc Mike IP: 82.47.66.18 |
mcrtchly Joined: 30/08/2007 Location: Dublin, Ireland View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 14/12/2009 22:15:10 Reply | Quote Mike, there was at least one adit open when I visited there in about 2004. I remember the adit started close to the road up to the opencast. It didn't have too much water but got lower towards the opencast. I think that it came out in the opencast and there was a shaft going downwards towards the end. I can't remember any easy way into the oepncast from the surface. I'll have to dig out some pics. Martin IP: 89.204.193.221 |
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Posted: 15/12/2009 10:34:14 Reply | Quote Sunday 6th Drove to Strontian and looked at the mines. See photos of Middleshope Mines. Drove to Loch Shiel. Returned and camped near Middleshope Mines. Anne and Rolo went for a walk round the mines and on the way met a man called Dave McCullam who had done a lot of work on the mines with Dave Green from Manchester Museum. They had published a lot in the Russell Journals. He explained how the names on the OS map was all wrong and they wrote the right place names in. He gave us the name of the manager of the site Dan MacDonald, and showed the way to the mine above the site. He also showed Anne the Middleshope Lower level which has a 10 ft diameter metal tube in the entrance and continues at that size for half a mile before a cross cut. It is very unstable. There are lots of stopes which are being stabilised with iron girders. He also showed her the 1985 shaft which is now blocked and explained that they had gone down the 870ft shaft but 50 m down it was flooded and the hydrogen sulphide was so strong that they had to retreat. If it was plumbed somebody would need to go down in a respirator. Across the road is the blocked Engine Shaft by a tree and also more signs of mining. At the bottom of the hill on the site is an adit with a lot of water coming out. There is little to see on the site which is now being used for stone reclamation. Monday 7th Had breakfast in the cafe, did shopping and then went to forestry car park so that Anne and Rolo could walk up to Fee Donald. It was a beautiful day. The walk took about 4 hours through the Arundlie Oak Woods and onto the mountain. The site was not hard to find as the spoil heaps were obvious. However, to reach the site it is necessary to take the upper path all the way as the site would not be visible from the valley. There is little left of the site, the scant remains of buildings and some spoil heaps. However, there is an open adit emitting water at river level and a fenced off shaft higher up the hill. There is also possible another blocked adit and a blocked shaft with what looks like a wheel pit beside it. -- Cutting coal in my spare time. IP: 78.146.53.73 |
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