Years ago, when I went in, it was head first into muddy water, helmet banging on the roof, water up to your chin.😂

I just picked up a pocket 2, had a good deal. The 3 is way too expensive for me.

The Pocket 2 is amazing! Look forward to you using it more.

It's cool you know enough dedicated people to make the airation of this mine possible. You need to build a small camera rig with good lighting for the new camera, it would take your videos to the next level. 👍

Did you see the red light with your eyes at the time or was it just the camera that picked it up? 👍

Great to see the airflow experiment continuing! Fascinating stuff.

Excellent video Peter. Is that old entrance from an earlier period of mining as it seems a lot smaller

Excellent video Peter, that red light was very strange Cheers Russ

Is that great Ayton mine?

If I remember correctly there were 4 entrances to this mine during its life in the area you are accessing and an access drift some distance from the main mine entrances.

That new camera looks great, look forward to your explores with it

Very interesting. Great series Peter, thanks for sharing!

The National Trust tour of the Levant Engine House is well worth booking. It's a guided tour and so interesting.

Wow, so cool to see inside.

Those fans have done a great job of getting air into the mine. I am waiting in eager anticipation for the next parts in this series of videos to be uploaded. 👍

Wow👍this is why youtube is awesome.

Excellent video Peter, how far do you manage to get in before air turns really bad. I won't mention the name of the mine but isn't there an air shaft that is still open or is that in a flooded area? Cheers Russ

Thanks for Episode 2. That mine always looks kind of toxic, with the mould, rot and stagnant waters! Thanks for being there for us and showing us these videos. Fascinating stuff!

I am using the GoPro Hero 12, and I must admit the low light capabilities are not very good, and I have to use two Fenix flood lights to light up the tunnels. I have been looking at the Insta 360 which as way better low light capabilty, but lacks a gimble (GoPro 12 is stabilished in camera so does not need a gimble), but I am impressed with this DJI Pete, especially with 4k 30FPS, and the difference in low light is amazing, have to make a tuff choice now, been using GoPros for about 10 years.

Happy new camera :). Oh yes, that's bright now :)

Wow, the pocket looks nice. Whats about the pocket 3?

I use the GoPro Hero 9 underground. I also own the Dji Pocket 2 which is the superior camera but I have always been to scared to use it in a mine because the gimble seems so delicate, and of course there is the dust and mud, etc. I also prefer the still photographs from the Pocket 2. Judging by this video here is a massive difference and I may experiment with the pocket 2 next year. Merry Christmas. 🎄🎅

Interesting experiment. I hope it gets you further into the mine. But that ceiling - woah! Nasty stuff. Take care in there and thanks for another fascinating video!

Nice to see the stove's still in the hut near the top. One of my mates made it, and we hauled it up there in October 2017!

Good work, I am looking forward to part two. 👍

Summerhill Drift is on land of an unsympathetic landowner and I suspect may get into the flooded part of the workings.

Well done, great idea to ventilate with fans! Glad you didn't push your luck though, just not worth the risk!

Reopen the Summerhill drift!

Have u ever been in the mines in New Marske woods (errington woods)?

There’s documentation on secret bunkers in the area, they would hold a dozen men armed to the teeth incase of German attacks on teeside. But it doesn’t look like a bunker for men.

Got a photo of grandad on the last shift at eston, both sides of my family worked every mine in the area.

Love the sonic boom test on the walls

That group of people you see are on what's called the Snakes and Ladders trip

When you went through that first tunnel, I have pictures of the end of it before those blocks came down, the big square one first, then it looks like two more have come down at a later time.

Why not dam the water flow.... create a head stock and use it for hydropower.❤❤❤❤

Amazing site to visit. Thanks for showing us around!

That quarry was awsome. 👍

Damm that reminds me again i forgot those cup coasters i cut 😢

Nice one, the drone footage really shows the scale of this place

Interesting Saw set up, I used to be a Saw Man at Teesside steel works, sent shivers down me spine .

Awesome place. added to the list of places to go one day.!

brilliant mate, gutted i missed this but what a great few days in wales, its mad how you can hear and feel the rumble through the mountain of the power plant deep inside it

The dimensions are insane. There were no undergroundworks there, were there?

Nice one. 👍

Brilliant fun this was

Holy shit!!

Go across the valley to Moss rigg quarry, scramble down to the bottom and see an incredibly dangerous tunnel, that leads a space larger than any i have seen underground, be careful though.

The mill closed in the 90's, I do know a few of the miners who worked there, Its in such a bad state now the buildings, when I first visited that site the building still had an intact roof, it had locos in there, man riders, loads or big air compressors, a battery fork lift, and all the slate trimmers were still operational and you could cut the slate. The locos, man riders went to the Welsh slate mine museum in Llanberis, the air compressors were taken by the scrap man along with all the hardened steel blades off the slate trimmers. At 2:50 you said you didn't know what that machine was, it is a part of a continuous wire rope cutting system which was designed and used in marble quarries for cutting large blocks of marble from the mountain, one was brought to Maenofferen to test, I believe it was too slow and blaster was faster. At 3:10 the big old thing is a slab lifter, I think. The slate trimmer Overground Underground is demonstrating used to rotate at quite some speed, originally they were guarded and the bed he has the slate on is missing its blade, the trimmer at 6:50 still has it's bottom blade intact, if you go to the end of the row there is a crate full of small stacked slates, this is what came off the trimmers, and that's how they were stacked for transport to Porthmadog on the Ffestiniog Mountain Railway. The dates are real, Maenofferen ran from the late 19th Century until the 90's, at some point in its early years the mill had a huge waterwheel for power, just to the left of the building you can still see the remains of the support towers for the water leat. In its later life it was converted to electricity which was powered from a Pelton wheel generator in the opposite valley between there and Llechwedd. All electrical panels used to be backed with slate slabs as they were the perfect insulator, the slabs were cut and made in mid Wales and brought out of the obvious mines in that area. And you were right Pete there was an echo in there when you farted. This is the original entrance Pete looking from the inside www.flickr.com/photos/steven-dalgliesh-photography/16831453933/in/album-72157630785513836 and this was the weigh scales next to it on the outside, all buried now www.flickr.com/photos/steven-dalgliesh-photography/17449700142/in/album-72157630785513836/

Interesting site, a quick search says the site only closed in 2001. That's a lot of degradation in 23 years. Tried adding a link to thetimechamber site but the yt bots deleted the comment.

That's pretty cool!