colliery

Although an open cast mine its good that some guards will let you roam the site for a photo shoot......cheers m8 what ever they call you !. visited late feb 2011 the 2nd out of three collieries on this date. didn't expect to get into the buildings so that was a bonus. history part below...

After seeing the recent reports and the fact that Maniac was up in Notts we decided to finally get our asses over to Clipstone Colliery. Not much of site remains however what does remain is very impressive. History - http://www.aditnow.co.uk/mines/Clipstone-Colliery-Coal-Mine/ On with pixz0rz...

Awesome place with perfect weather, another place I haven't seen before so it was good to have a look around Hope you like the pics :D

Me and my brother, littlewide had a really nice explore this morning onto the site of the now closed Snowdown colliery. Loads of building left standing easy access into most of them, this is the deepest mine in Kent at 3000m at its lowest point, apparently at that depth the rock is hot. We...

Saw Captain Slows report on Broken Britain about this site and thought to myself "gotta get myself there" Hood_mad and I parked in the little village just past the layby with the broken 5' pipes in it. Walked down the path from the layby and entered the main site. We got a bit spooked by the...

This is the only surviving example of a kent colliery, and is looking in an increasingly bad way in recent times. They're still un-sure what they want to do with the buildings, so at the moment they stand there empty, a monument to the sites past use. All the mine shafts have one...