Where's Dennis Skinner?

Always remember when we were driving to Bolsover to see my Aunt and Uncle ( he was a miner) how much the Coalite works chimney stunk, even from the motorway.

we supplied butter milk soap tablets to the address.. Buttermilk lane !!

If not for a contributor like yourself, I never would have been able to view this lovely place. Thank you for posting this video.

Love the sounds and sights! Bess Hardwick had numerous descendants in the U.S. especially through her great granddaughter Jane Lowe and husband Henry Sewall who settled in Maryland. Bess’ great-great grandmother Isabel Aylesbury was a sister of Eleanor Aylesbury who was an ancestor of Col. Thomas Ligon of Virginia who was one of my forebears.

Thank you for sharing this footage! My family's roots are here but we've now been in Canada for generations, since before Canada became a country in 1867.

is it half destroyed and half OK ?

Brilliant photos Allan. Thank you for sharing them. I left the refinery in 2003, it still looked the same as your photos!

Are you the Alan Turford from Bolsover Amateur Radio Society? I used to live at Romeley Hall Farm, downwind from Coalite (between Clowne and Stanfree, up a lane)

Oh how I miss the old Shirebrook

That's my great x10 or something aunts place

My mum and dad worked there in the 60's when they left school It's where they met

Great video, my grandad worked there from the 70s till the late 90s

thank you for this

what is the motor type noise? interference from mobile transmitters nearby??

Nice, but I want to see the dungeon part..

Ha lol I'm on the video

Great product - so long as you didn't live near the plant.

england...what a such beautiful scenery you have...

Hi ,nice photos ,why do the coalite plant ovens appear different to those of the Avenue or monckton ? Where was the pusher and coke car and quencher tower also what were the tin sheet arched roofs for thanks .

I used to work here - How sad

Good old Bozer!

A piece of history gone,when you consider these places where meant to last 20/25yrs if that,and they carried on right up to the present day.they could have been upgraded further if needed-composite doors,and PVCU windows could just have been the start for these little gems,but still.A triumph of a caring,postwar socialist government to make sure a home was available for everyone.Noble,very noble indeed.

This was a good pub in it's day!

i use to live there in the model village best years of my life miss it :)

*I live there xxx

I love there xxx

bolsover has changed so much to how i remembered it when the old co-op was there and that wall i used to sit on waiting for the bus... you didnt go down welbeck road,wanted to see if my school was still there.

Fantastic video alfonzo! I run a website dedicated to similar property types many of which are being demolished as time goes by, only to be lost in the annals of history. Your video captures the demolition of an era of time gone by. Thank you for filming the facinating piece and sharing it with everyone. :0)

Its good to have a record of Bolsover before any more changes. Back in the early 80's I was going to do a short version, due to cine films only lasting about 3 mins.I started filming on my cine 8 camera coming off Hilltop, but it was cut very short by my driver, who drove into a Beer lorry that was unloading at the Black Bull pub. Thanks for the video.

I see your point Allan. Don't think I would want to video blog there. your flip camera does an excellent job.

Sure some nice bikes there....I owned a triump 650many years ago...great bike..thanks for posting