Coal prices are up world wide why have we in the UK stopped mining coal and destroyed a brilliant industry and put thousands of miner's out of work This green woke government's are a bloody disgrace

Is that brand new or has it been restored

Wet Blanket goes back a lot further in Mining than even Coal Mining here in the UK, Right back to the Ancients Mines, Romans for sure used them but probably much earlier, To break hard rocks, the Miners (usually Slaves) would coat hard rock faces in Fat/Oil and stack a big fire against the face, then when the Face was hot enough, the Blanket man would toss a bladder of vinegar/water/sour wine depending on which source you read onto the hot face then cower under the wet blanket (Probably Fleece) and like the Coal miners dive in a hole hoping the subsequent explosion went over them. A Prestige Job at the time no doubt, funny that it has a different meaning nowadays

Guys are the silent heros,god bless you all, pity the government didn't recognise and respect, thank you all.

This is great. Thank you for sharing!

Very interesting video. I have one of these lamps and although I know how to use it and it's primary purpose as a protection against igniting methane I was not aware of its other uses. Thank you.

Minors from A to B in a timely fashion you say? -Diddy

This video just happend to show up in my feed but i thoroughly enjoyed the snippet into mining history. It would be lovely to see some longer videos about the museum, for me specifically as an engineering student would love to hear more about the workings of the winding engine!

Very very interesting thanks. A lot more to mining that i thought.

Did this at bentinck pit in Nottinghamshire. Loved it

Brilliant visit yesterday to the museum. We came after watching you Russ and your band of brothers at the big K. Loved the programme, although it made me Angry and Sad. So glad the museum is here to show us a little bit of what it was like underground.

Bevin Boys and Merchant Seamen and the Home Guard truly got the short end of the stick during and after WW2 and its a damn shame.

Very interesting.

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Well explained and interesting. Thank you for posting.

thank you that was really interesting

A Wonder HOW Sheldon is getting on these Days.

Never saw a ghost underground, but I did once touch the hat that a newstart was wearing when he met Scaddie's ghost, in the Lower North West section of Killoch Colliery, Ayrshire, Scotland. It was nightshift and the boy was travelling with a bogey of supplies when he met another miner at a junction. The stranger told the boy to be careful as he, Scaddie, had died at that spot a few years earlier. The boy stopped the bogey, ran out of the section, got up the pit and never returned, but gave his pit helmet to a mate who wore it for years.

Bert the shirt,your having a laugh😊

2 million gallons = 9 million litres. At 25 mg/L reduction in iron concentration that's 225 kg of iron removed per day, or 82 tons per year! Do you have to dredge all that rust out of the settling pond and what do you do with it? Iron oxide is currently valued at 2 USD per kg, so that's $164,000 or £130,000. No where near enough to cover the cost of pumps, but an interesting by-product.

Seems a lot of mines had a ghost called laloo? All you needed to do on.Seeing a ghost was to show it a shovel,well that used to make most of the live men I worked with vanish pretty quickly

Jimmy Savile was a Bevin Boy

It surely takes bravery to work inside mines. You miners have ice running through your veins.

Great video!

I looked at my uncle and 2 cousins with pride and the highest respect. If anyone insulted or belittled them you would have to deal with an enraged little kid, the woke joke mob, just wants to end USA mining half the new regs are just to cause the mine owner and miners endless hassles and expense.

Hi do you know martin bc i went there today 2024 march 8thwith my class y2A

I would love to work with you on this

This old 5th generation coal miner is smiling 😊

Stone dust has made some wonderful ghost!

Any chance someone knows the name or where to get some of those shin guards.

Shaft Blacksmith at Hawthorn shaft, loved the job, especially the 6 hour shifts, hard dangerous work, but got home after a shift feeling satisfied that i'd done a decent days productive work. Not much of that about now. The mines had had their day when I left in 1988, wouldn't have missed it and have great memories, but wouldn't want to do it again.

I'm ex-coal miner and although I've not seen any in coal mines, I have seen ghosts in old mineral mines. The smell of damp tobacco smoke is always a giveaway that somethings happening. You might hear sounds and even light flashing from behind a corner. I've even had stones and small pieces of clay thrown at me. Weirdly it has never bothered me. Above ground and at home yes - this house has something. Random knocking begins, even when others are sat there with me. The knocking comes from a central partition wall. (I live in a detached house) The smell of old fashioned scent can happen and even a hint of cigarette smoke at times. Never seen visible things except what look like random dark patches or shadows from the corner of my eye. The worst time I've ever encountered a spirit was at a disused farm. I was with others and they witnessed that nights events too. Really really threatening stuff and some random things such as a trapped sheep in a building, what sounded like a bull snorting and scuffling toward us and even an horrific smell that churned our stomachs. I never went back to that old farm!

I'm claustrophobic, it was the worst trip of my life, never again!

Yep. I worked at national king coal in southwest ↙️↙️ Colorado. 11 years but now disabled coal miner. Also iv worked in several mines and was in a 5.7 earthquake in Trinidad Colorado in 2011. I was underground and we didn't know until surface was calling and asked about it. Wow and im still alive after idk how many near misses iv had in my career thats over.

I went there today for a school trip it was amazinggggg😊🎉

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Very educational. Pity not many are subscribed I hope this changes in time. I recognised you from the big K documentary nice to see your still involved.

I did find it interesting. Thank you. Great explanation.

Conscripted, had to buy your own picks and shovels, got injured you received no pension, no Naffi concessions, no travel warrant to go home on leave, no medal and no recognition. Treated with suspicion, regularly questioned by the police. Failure to comply resulted in jail, when it was over you went home, unlike miltary serving men whose jobs were often by law kept available, it wasn't the case for these men as they were civilians. Records were destroyed in the 50s. And now the same country points it's finger at others saying, look how they treat their civilians they have no freedom etc.

Went down last week with Steve as our guide. very knowledgeable and made a great tour for us

Never knew there were so many ghosties underground. Any chance they were methane induced?

I wish they would be more voices of the past with opinions or memories from down the shaft. ❤❤❤

When I quit the industry circa 1972 (I was an undermanager) we only had the lamp. As sold state detectors obviously came into use after I had gone, I wonder why the lamp remained in use.

i worked in a house while the owner was on holiday i was doing a job in the bathroom i had measured for a piece of pipe an went out to cut it being old i had forgot the number by the time i had got through the door turned round an there it was the loft access door stopping me from getting in now this door needed a key to open it an it was quiet loose i.e. it would swing if you let it go the door was as still as anything, later that day i was clearing my tools away i was in the kitchen an there was door between the kitchen an diner that needed dragging to shut it i turned round in the kitchen to check i had not left anything behind an the door was closed at this point i went cold an scarpered i spoke to the owner when they came home an his wife told me that the priest had been a few times to try an shift it to no avail

Pete was one of the last at Kellingly Colliery wasn’t he?

Might be safer if you just welded the gate shut, and just cut your way out when you need to. Safety gone mad, the planned way to end mining, insane regulations all but killed USA mining too, how sad, and an insult to our ancestors, who risked their lives daily, just so their ancestors destroy the job they loved and were so proud of. Glad youre keeping some alive anyway.

Very clearly put Peter. I remember Peter from when I worked at Rossington Colliery.

OH MY GOD I WENT TO COAL MINING MUSEUM IN MY SCHOOL I WENT TO UNDERGROUND SAW BLOOD ON THE WALL HEARD LAUGHING NOISES AND THE WORST BIT I WAS AT THE BACK WITH MY SCHOOL AND WE WERE IN THE HALLWAY THAT THEY SHOWED IN THAT VIDEO WITH OUR LIGHTS AND I TURN AROUND AND I SEE A RANDOM BOY WITH BLUE CLOTHES AND I RAN FOR MY LIFE THIS PLACE IS CURSED DON'T GO ON YOUR OWN!

I'm going tommorow lol I'm terrified been there 1 time not is to get back used to it

Bit strange how the locker door in the top left hand corner opens !! 4:52