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sturmvogel Joined: 27/04/2012 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
Bonvilles Court Colliery, Fan Pit 2004 (photo)
Posted: 27/04/2012 23:18:03 Reply | Quote This for me used to be a very scary place as a child yet it held a fascination for me, I spose it was the danger. My Mam used to warn me to stay away from the Fan Tower which obviously meant go there as soon as possible !!!!. We used to climb to the top of the tower and drop stones down the shaft. It seemed to take ages to hit the bottom and then the sound used to reach us from the bottom , a horrible ghostly echo that sent us scrambling back down the tower like scalded cats !!! We used to dare each other to go there at dusk or after dark, climb the tower and drop the stones, but I dont think any of us had the STONES to do that !!!!! Happy days and a wonderful childhood memory of better days, poorer, but better . Photograph: (click image to open full size image in new window) 
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inbye Joined: 06/07/2008 Location: Huddersfield View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
Bonvilles Court Colliery, Fan Pit 2004 (photo)
Posted: 28/04/2012 08:08:38 Reply | Quote First class, you've got that just right. They were poorer days, but somehow better, in spite of that. (& that's not nostalgia, as that's not what it used to be   )Anyone who's never thrown a stone down an open shaft, hasn't lived. Did you refine your technique to see how many times you could make it bounce off the sides? -- Regards, John... 'Folk from Huddersfield think Sex is what coal gets delivered in...' IP: 82.26.92.218 |
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Bonvilles Court Colliery, Fan Pit 2004 (photo)
Posted: 29/04/2012 15:35:14 Reply | Quote I stayed at the top of the nearby incline and explored the area in the late 80s..... Yes I dropped Stones, yes it was an eeerie place from memory.... Great post ... reminded me of many such things in my own area.... We had a nearby colliery shaft that was many 100s of feet deep and was brick lined... it was flooded to the collar and we sat many an hour with our feet in the water suckin on a Jubbly under the summer sun as kids... As for the fence around the water hole it was 8 sticks with some barbed wire that had rotted away to zilch literally! And guess what..... no one died ... or got injured... or disappeared... or .... well gave a toss! Imagine that today.... -- As politically correct as a Nuremberg Rally IP: 78.150.149.208 |
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