Posts by Red78

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Author	Message
Topic: Scoredale
Red78	Forum: North West England Posted: 24/12/2020 22:03:16 Subject: Scoredale Is there a reason why I can't find any images or information about the mine workings in Scoredale? I visited the area in 2015 and there is a vast amount of workings and open adits dotted around t
Topic: 2021 Calendar
Red78	Forum: General Chat Posted: 15/12/2020 22:45:11 Subject: 2021 Calendar [quote="Down and beyond"]Hello everyone just wanted to share 2 photos of my calendar I made for my mates who are part of my usual mine exploring team hope you enjoy the images ! Have never made one be
Topic: Hags/Heggs Gill Level (photo)
Red78	Forum: North East England Posted: 19/11/2020 23:29:51 Subject: Hags/Heggs Gill Level (photo) Is it accessible from Devis? Or has no body tried
Topic: Hags/Heggs Gill Level (photo)
Red78	Forum: North East England Posted: 19/11/2020 18:42:39 Subject: Hags/Heggs Gill Level (photo) How far does this mine go? I read that it was started in 1828 and was supposed to have reached Devis Hole by 1891 Photograph: [link]88119[linkphoto]88119[/linkphoto][/link]
Topic: Most worrying place you've ever been in a mine...
Red78	Forum: General Chat Posted: 13/10/2020 22:47:32 Subject: Most worrying place you've ever been in a mine... Geez, I'm scared just reading about some of the horrible situations you guys have been in. Only time a mine has made me catch my breath, or made my heart stop was exploring some old coal m
Topic: Dufton Fell Mines
Red78	Forum: North West England Posted: 02/09/2020 18:31:35 Subject: Dufton Fell Mines [quote="derrick man"]Speaking of which, on the way up from Dufton to High Cup Nick, just after entering the area where ground birds nest there is a prominent arch, or portal beside the track. It looks
Topic: Dufton Fell Mines
Red78	Forum: North West England Posted: 31/08/2020 23:58:27 Subject: Dufton Fell Mines Anyone know anything about a couple of mines on Dufton Fell & Knock Fell. I was walking on Meldon Fell in July and wondered what was on the next fell and came across them whilst looking at old maps of
Topic: Worth Iron Furnace - nodule (photo)
Red78	Forum: South East England Posted: 22/05/2020 19:01:37 Subject: Worth Iron Furnace - nodule (photo) Oh i do love a bit of slag. I have a piece in my kitchen that I picked up from beside a stream, where a rabbit had been digging.
Topic: Swaledale Floods (Mines Affected)
Red78	Forum: North East England Posted: 02/02/2020 23:32:51 Subject: Swaledale Floods (Mines Affected) I don't think it can be Blakethwaite, else it would have effected GG, and there was no damage. I shall be able to head up that way in a couple of Sundays time for a closer inspection.
Topic: Ian Tyler Cumbria Mines Heritage Walks
Red78	Forum: General Chat Posted: 10/01/2020 18:12:52 Subject: Ian Tyler Cumbria Mines Heritage Walks Following this.. I would be interested if he does..
Topic: Moresdale Ridge Level (photo)
Red78	Forum: North East England Posted: 04/11/2019 19:38:04 Subject: Moresdale Ridge Level (photo) [quote="jbg"]about 200 yards to a collapse as it enters the vein, it is also the water supply for the nearby Farm, I entered with the permission of the owner and drinker of said water who wanted to kn
Topic: Moresdale Ridge Level (photo)
Red78	Forum: North East England Posted: 03/11/2019 12:12:27 Subject: Moresdale Ridge Level (photo) Anyone been in here? Photograph: [link]87095[linkphoto]87095[/linkphoto][/link]
Topic: Photographs Of Graiggoch (album)
Red78	Forum: Mid Wales Posted: 03/11/2019 11:23:47 Subject: Photographs Of Graiggoch (album) [quote="royfellows"] So, do we add Pont Ceunant Generating Station as a new mine or move the photos to the Frongoch album? [/quote] That is an interesting question.
Topic: Photographs Of Graiggoch (album)
Red78	Forum: Mid Wales Posted: 01/11/2019 21:40:43 Subject: Photographs Of Graiggoch (album) Having been on the Frongoch, Wemyss & Graiggoch Walk organised by NAMHO & the Cambrian Mines Trust, which was very good, I'd like to point out that over half of the photos in this album are wrong.
Topic: Exploring Coal Mines - Gas?
Red78	Forum: General Chat Posted: 01/11/2019 12:38:38 Subject: Exploring Coal Mines - Gas? Having read through all the "near death" experiences ppl have been having with old coal mines, I feel like I "must have got away with one" because, before I properly understood the difference between
Topic: Swaledale Floods (Mines Affected)
Red78	Forum: North East England Posted: 22/08/2019 21:11:29 Subject: Swaledale Floods (Mines Affected) No damage in GG, the rain missed the upper dale.
Topic: Swaledale Floods (Mines Affected)
Red78	Forum: North East England Posted: 07/08/2019 17:26:39 Subject: Swaledale Floods (Mines Affected) Any chance you can reopen How Mine Adit as well? It has vanished.
Topic: Swaledale Floods (Mines Affected)
Red78	Forum: North East England Posted: 04/08/2019 11:38:27 Subject: Swaledale Floods (Mines Affected) You've all probably seen the coverage of the flooding in Swaledale on the 30th July around Grinton, Fremmington & Reeth (and Arkengarthdale), and you might be wondering what the concequences it has ha
Topic: Haverdale Mines
Red78	Forum: General Chat Posted: 12/11/2018 19:57:10 Subject: Haverdale Mines [quote="royfellows"]1878 Factory Act: Quarrys are any place not being a mine in which persons work in getting slate, stone, coal or other minerals. Which begs the question: what is a mine??
Topic: Haverdale Mines
Red78	Forum: General Chat Posted: 12/11/2018 18:35:48 Subject: Haverdale Mines Just been having a look at the gallery of photo's for Haverdale Mine in Crackpot Gill. I was up that way at the weekend chatting to a couple of local farmers, one of whoms forebears had owned the mine
Topic: Bat rabies
Red78	Forum: General Chat Posted: 10/11/2018 11:24:47 Subject: Bat rabies Have you given up stakes tho? or Garlic on yer pizza? ;D
Topic: Old Quarry.
Red78	Forum: General Chat Posted: 10/11/2018 00:06:53 Subject: Old Quarry. Strange you should recall how the column change gear was a bit of a nightmare. My father once drove a CA for a Motor Garage and has regaled tales of the day he when for the next gear and the column ch
Topic: Calendar 2019 - Here it is!
Red78	Forum: General Chat Posted: 09/11/2018 20:34:11 Subject: Calendar 2019 - Here it is! Cracking job, only thing is, the "other half" doesn't really approve of me going underground, and would rather I have a calender of ladies in their undergarments than a mining one.;)
Topic: Hello from the Derwent Valley North Pennines
Red78	Forum: New recruits! Posted: 09/11/2018 20:28:33 Subject: Hello from the Derwent Valley North Pennines I'm not an expert in the area, but if you head along to the Nenthead Mines near Alston, I'm sure you'll bump into a couple of guys that are.
Topic: Great Langdale - what’s to see?
Red78	Forum: North West England Posted: 09/11/2018 20:26:52 Subject: Great Langdale - what’s to see? Beg, borrow or steal a copy of EG Holland's Coniston Copper Mines Field Guide, it has really nice descriptions of the mines & the "pitfalls", inside & out. If you get beyond the Tilberthwaite Min
Topic: Anything interesting around Dartmoor?
Red78	Forum: General Chat Posted: 09/11/2018 20:18:38 Subject: Anything interesting around Dartmoor? Hi BC, If the weather holds and the mists don't come in, and you don't get eaten by the black hound of Dartmoor! Then there are a few nice surface remains at Cherry Brook Gun Powder Works.. but
Topic: Mystery Mines
Red78	Forum: North East England Posted: 18/06/2018 18:16:35 Subject: Mystery Mines [quote="Jim MacPherson"]Possibly zinc, for some reason there is a mine located east of Hudeshope Beck about half a mile east of Skears limekilns called Wynch Bridge Zinc Trial on AN, no photos or det
Topic: Mystery Mines
Red78	Forum: North East England Posted: 18/06/2018 17:03:59 Subject: Mystery Mines Yes, but although it says trial, do you know what they were trialing for?
Topic: Mystery Mines
Red78	Forum: North East England Posted: 18/06/2018 16:31:24 Subject: Mystery Mines Does anyone have any info on some mines near Holwick in Teesdale. They don't appear to be lead mines. On old maps they are written as "Old Quarry" & "Old Tips" but they are definely adits. They are lo
Topic: Old Iron Mines
Red78	Forum: General Chat Posted: 01/01/2018 21:29:09 Subject: Old Iron Mines [quote="rikj"]These ones? https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1005786 the original references are given at the end, maybe more info there. They would make
Topic: Old Iron Mines
Red78	Forum: General Chat Posted: 29/12/2017 18:38:02 Subject: Old Iron Mines Anyone know if there is any information, books leaflets etc about the Old Iron Mines near Emley Woodhouse? There are over 100 shafts and pits marked over 3 sites.
Topic: Outsiders first post - a little help please
Red78	Forum: North East England Posted: 29/12/2017 18:32:50 Subject: Outsiders first post - a little help please If you're really stuck, and would like to experience quite how dark it can be inside a mine, pop down to the National Coal Mining Museum just off the M1 between Barnsley & Wakefield, they'll take you
Topic: Tamar Valley & Tavistock
Red78	Forum: General Chat Posted: 09/09/2017 12:21:31 Subject: Tamar Valley & Tavistock [quote="devondorset"]Pcg have very little locked,most stuff is open and accessible and nothing to do with them anyway . I'm in pcg,but the club is not very active these days. Also in dcme I which gets
Topic: Tamar Valley & Tavistock
Red78	Forum: General Chat Posted: 08/09/2017 17:28:59 Subject: Tamar Valley & Tavistock I'm off for a week to the SW land and wonder if there was anything I should particually look out for? I have a few old guide books: The Mines & Mineral Railways of E. Cornwall & W. Devon (D
Topic: Black Ark - White Force
Red78	Forum: North East England Posted: 08/09/2017 17:01:38 Subject: Black Ark - White Force Cheers for that, hmm 200 metres, the book says over 300 but I suppose it could be wrong. Did you see any mineralization? 8-)
Topic: Black Ark - White Force
Red78	Forum: North East England Posted: 07/09/2017 12:06:42 Subject: Black Ark - White Force Anyone been in here? I was in the area back in April, but have only just started going through my photo's...so many taken, not enough time to process them all.
Topic: National Library of Scotland 25 Inch maps
Red78	Forum: Mining Heritage Posted: 07/09/2017 12:02:19 Subject: National Library of Scotland 25 Inch maps [quote="PeteJ"]Maps now cover the north of England.[/quote] Not all, a lot of rural upland area's are still blank-itty blank! Six Inch is still the best for coverage. :flo
Topic: A (not very) interesting discovery
Red78	Forum: General Chat Posted: 29/10/2016 00:32:51 Subject: A (not very) interesting discovery [quote="davetidza"]Hi Adam, Whilst in my present state I have been playing about in the ADS downloads of the DAS Journals. In 1893 there is a reference to 'Wind Arse Road' near Little Chester!!!!!
Topic: Unknown Mine - Great Shunner Fell / Great Sleddale
Red78	Forum: North East England Posted: 07/04/2015 20:56:18 Subject: Unknown Mine - Great Shunner Fell / Great Sleddale Having read the description that seem to be a perfect fit. Even down to the deads that were in the spoil heap. How do I post pics to an album? I have about 10 photo's on my drive.
Topic: Unknown Mine - Great Shunner Fell / Great Sleddale
Red78	Forum: North East England Posted: 06/04/2015 23:38:15 Subject: Unknown Mine - Great Shunner Fell / Great Sleddale Hello to the knowledgeable ones... I took a very squelchy walk up the backside of Great Shunner Fell, via Great Sled Dale and came across what I presume are old lead mines... but then I could be
Topic: Information Required - Justice Level, Arkengarthdale
Red78	Forum: General Chat Posted: 02/11/2013 13:32:29 Subject: Information Required - Justice Level, Arkengarthdale [quote="RJV"][quote="mikehiggins"]Doesn't sound like the Buckden Gavel that I know![/quote] Absolutely. Like many a place you get out of it what you put into it. If you do nothing but walk
Topic: First one down, next one to go!
Red78	Forum: General Chat Posted: 02/11/2013 11:43:49 Subject: First one down, next one to go! Yep, that's the one, you found on street view. :thumbup:
Topic: First one down, next one to go!
Red78	Forum: General Chat Posted: 31/10/2013 23:22:51 Subject: First one down, next one to go! [b]Anyone got any info on my next mine discovery? Saw this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/9251036972/ from my car, so walked back up & took a snap of it through a fence. It is on
Topic: Information Required - Justice Level, Arkengarthdale
Red78	Forum: General Chat Posted: 31/10/2013 22:53:30 Subject: Information Required - Justice Level, Arkengarthdale Thanks everybody. Really useful snippets. I don't usually go inside the mines. Tho I did recently have a look inside the Buckden Gavel Mine in Wharfedale, which was a bit disappointing, lots of
Topic: Information Required - Justice Level, Arkengarthdale
Red78	Forum: General Chat Posted: 31/10/2013 14:14:33 Subject: Information Required - Justice Level, Arkengarthdale Hi, I'm not new, but it has been an age since I was last here. I'm trying to find out information on a mine I stumbled across whilst out walking. As far as I can discover the mine or adit

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