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This place is local to me and Ive passed it up many a time due to it looking so completely trashed, until one rainy Saturday afternoon when our plans were completely ruined by the continuous down pour !. Work commenced on Snowdown Pit in 1908 and the first coal was brought to the surface on...

did this while in the area back in june 2012, an easy explore that was stripped but still not a bad wander. there where lockers in but the pikey's have had all of them away! from pictures ive seen there where loads! history stolen form elsewhere:- This is the youngest colliery in the...

What can i say.....get a cuppa...... THE regular Monday night shift at Creswell Colliery began much as any other on the evening of September 25, 1950, with jokes and general chatter as 211 men – half the number of the day shift – descended 1,000 feet below the surface of North Derbyshire. They...