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Explored with Raz, FatPanda & Jord - Pic Heavy A Brief History of Bakewell Chert Mine Holme Bank was the last of two operational chert mines in Derbyshire the other being the Pretoria Mine, both at Bakewell. Access was from adits in a quarry at Bank Top and the steep workings extended...

Visited with Paul Powers and 2nd explore of my second day up there at his place!Doing a report on this one first though mainly for the reason i like these pictures enough to want to share on here,and there on my pc ready to go Brief and i mean brief exerct of history taken from tut net Holme...

Info The last two operational chert mines in Derbyshire were the Pretoria Mine and Holme Bank Mine, both at Bakewell. Pretoria opened in 1902. Access was from adits in a quarry at Bank Top and the steep workings extended beneath the road to connect with the earlier Greenfield shaft. The...

What an awesome little place, loads of character and bursting with history. Visited with Maniac and Diehardlove. Lots of history here - http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DBY/BygoneIndustries/ChertMining.html On with the pics! This was my first day underground with my new camera, and so far I...