Been for a ride out there myself today I went to this school me and my sister were the last students before it shut and turned into a additional needs school mr banks was the head master and mr foster was my last teacher at this school one of the best schools I ever went to I l did 18 miles on push bike today from Stairfoot to ryhill back to stairfoot

Is that the old fan house for the drift to

I'm glad that Auschwitz is still there though for future generations to see for themselves the evidence of Hitler's Evil Holocaust and the SS were Sadistic Monster 's who killed millions of innocent people for no reason at all

Hitler was a Sick Monster and Pure Evil

Let's remember the innocent victim's who died there

Auschwitz is a place of such Evil and inhumanity all caused by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi's.

New sub here from down under love these uploads that bring history back to life.

This place is massive and you need a good few days to get around it all

Awesome model

A tribute to the ingenuity of Barnes Wallis.

😊happy days

It would be nice to get at least a brief explanation of each piece of equipment.

Enjoyed watching that video, Thanks for sharing. It brings back some good memories, both my Dad and my uncle worked at Elsecar pit, sadly both no longer with us, fond memories of my cousins and me visiting my uncle Alec, while he was working, he managed all the coal slurry ponds, he had a little cabin with a chair and a stove , my Dad worked in the wash house I think! We used to play around and fish in the canal close by. Good times.Elsecar is a lovely place.

I went to the Chatterley Whitfield mining museum [sadly, long since closed] with my family and spent the whole time underground, grabbing at my belt where my oil lamp should have been ....... old habits die hard ;<)

4:58 I pulled the grass up to expose those bricks. Ha. It was quite exciting to discover those under there. Glad it's been shared.

Amazing to see as there are none left. all long since scrapped. There must be loads of old planes in lakes.

So I assume that there is no visitor centre or museum there any more. How sad.

I live in Stirlingshire in Scotland and our houses are just beside an old colliery. I have always found the place fascinating even though not much of it exists. It was Polmaise Colliery and was opened in 1904.

Snatcher like Beeching 1 persons decision creats a countrywide fcuk up ...... Jolly good show for democracy eh what what ....

its got a permanent security guard on it these days making sure its not damaged further

well done.. the feel almost of a hallowed place, quietly, allowing time for contemplation,,

I appreciate that this video is quiet. So many channels are hard to enjoy because the person filming is talking so loudly.

Not a bird song or nothing you could hear a pin drop

Would you camp there for the night?

were the bricks at 4.45 from skyers springs brick works me dad worked at skyers springs pit

The two robbins miners that drove the two tunnels from cascoinwood in selby are still there they cost 10 million each back in the eighties the same ones that dug the channel tunnel the same for all the equipment left at my old pit Woolley colliery so much for saving money eh when half the dosco's left were on lease

Panzer noise please 😂😂😂 Bloody brilliant

Shocking !All that equipment just rusting and rotting away ,10’s of millions viable equipment left underground ,all the infrastructure of a colliery left to be for ever buried my opinion is all that equipment and infrastructure should be doing one thing and that is producing coal for clean coal technology , electricity ,and all derivatives that could be used to for uk trade .grew up in the north east ,absolutely disgraceful that a once proud industry has been destroyed along with other major industries ,ie ship building ,steel production,chemical production and a thousand other industries ,so much for a service driven economy !

All the the machines at Easington colliery were left underground when the pit closed

Fine collection, I used wolf short and long bonnet for years then went onto Protecter in latter years at BC

I believe we should preserve mining machinery and objects, it is a forgotten part of British history.

this one closed due to depleation of coal not thru thatcher in other words it ran out of coal

Anyone know how deep the shaft was?

I had a few Uncles who worked there, I remember as a school kid being taken to the pit top some time in the mid 70's. That was when the pit was working. They had cuts when working and the coal dust got in to form a grey scar !

The silence is deafening

very sad indeed

Just imagine the thousands of tons of equipment left underground

That was brilliant, loved it.

After watching this video, it made me wonder how much of this equipment still remains buried underground having been deemed too expensive to recover.

Fantastic video and excellent drone footage. Thank you.

The dog carried the movie…he’s great!! But seriously, a great informative video, thanks

Hands up who named their kid Margret ? Lol

This was the first cutter I drove, knocked two or three racks off since being made redundant.🤣😂👍

I never managed to buy the lamp I used when the colliery closed, I bought a couple off ebay, I would have preferred to have the one I used

Hasn't Elsecar pit site still got quite a few complete builings left or were you going on the land between Elsecar and Hemmingfield? Also is the 2 "humps" at the other side or the railway Simon wood pit? Did Jump also have a pit.Thank you.

Love going all the smells sounds memory’s come flooding back

Thatcher really did a number on us shutting all the pits. Devastate many working class communities and make us reliant on other countries for energy!

You have just visited just about every one of my restoration projects.

25 years on coal face 65 now but would go back down tomorrow to get this country out of the shot it is in proud minet

very nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!