Exploring Browns Folly Mine - This mine is huge

This is my 5th visit to this mine. In this video I give a tour of almost all of the mine.

[@benolifts]

There is something about this mine I feel that I need to mention about the mine.... I am someone who likes to be right about everything. I hate being wrong. In my first video about this mine, I said something that I am now uncombable with, which I feel I need to make a correction on. I am someone who forms my own opinions on subjects and situations. I don't normally copy people opinions without first thinking through everything for myself. I am not drawn to having a particular opinion because it is the popular opinion (this is both for opinions within groups, and the opinions of society as a whole). I feel that blindly adopting opinions is wrong, which is why I don't normally do it. It is worth noting that this has sometimes made it hard for me to make friends, as friendship groups often revolve around people all wanting the same opinion as each other to fit it, and I do not do this. However, in my first video on this mine I let my guard down and adopted a wrong opinion from someone I knew at the time. I then said something in my video that was wrong, and I want to make a correction. It is worth noting that usually when people apologise it is because they have been forced to. This is not the case here. I am saying this from my own morals without anyone asking, telling or persuading me to do so. What I am going to say is from my own morals and is entirely my own decision to say it. In my first video, I talk about someone who goes around hoovering the mine. When talking about this person, I call him the "mine loony". This was wrong of me, as I did not know who this person was. Blindly copying other people's hateful opinions like this is what makes the internet a toxic place. I am normally careful not to do this. So, lets now correct this and talk about this situation. Brown's Folly mine is well maintained. It has walls of stones in it. There are different features, all of which are well kept. This is very rare for an urbex site. I have seen other urbex locations deteriorate very quickly over a short period of time. Yet, Brown's Folly is always kept in great condition. I have also been to other mines that are nowhere near as interesting as they are not maintained. Brown's Folly is like nothing else. It is not an active site, nor is it abandoned. It is something special. It has interesting urbex features to enjoy throughout. And this is all thanks to the people who actively clean and maintain the site. One of the people is other referred to online as "Brian the caretaker", but some toxic people refer to him as "the mine loony". This is wrong, as if it wasn't for his hard work, which he does entirely for free, Brown's Folly would not be the place it is. Lets now address some of the criticisms of him..... 1. He removes people's markers, causing people to get lost in the mine. Firstly, this is very unlikely to happen within a given time. Now speaking as someone who did get lost in the mine and panicked, it can be scary in this mine in the featureless parts on your first time. However after going back multiple times, it shows that it isn't hard to navigate and build up a mental map of the mine. Leaving markers is not necessary. If people's markers didn't get cleaned up the mine would look in a poor state very quickly. 2. He builds walls and changes the layout of the mine that isn't his. I personally think this is a good thing. It is nice to see someone has put in the time and effort to do something creative. This is far better than some boring, unmaintained mine. 3. Various unsubstantiated allegations of him trying to trap people in the mine. These types of claims are so obviously untrue it is depressing that people even take notice of them. The worst thing about bullies is not the things they say, but the fact that ordinary people choose to believe them. It really shows up how toxic society is that ordinary people who should know better chose to believe things that are so obviously from bullies. How did the world get to this stage? When people see bulling, they should see it as such and be disgusted at the bully themselves, rather than sucking up to the bully and repeating their lies. For example, some people have willingly chosen to believe that I didn't have parents permission to take a child abroad, despite the fact the people this claim originated from were obviously bullies and not even trying to hide it. The people who believed this claim did not even have a clue who this child was, or anything about the situation, nor did they even really know who I am. Yet they chose to believe something they knew nothing about, and society doesn't even look badly on the bullies or the people who hide behind them and believe what they say. 4. The last criticism of the mine caretaker is that when he hears someone approaching he hides behind the stones with his torch off. Then the people who think they are alone in the mine, sometimes stop and see him in the shadows and it gives them a fright. Now lets look into why this mine caretaker is hiding from people. It is because he has been bullied. The mine caretaker is an autistic old man who people have been threatening violence towards him. There are people on Facebook groups saying hateful things about him, and people saying that they will punch him if they see him. This is completely unacceptable. I do not blame him from hiding from people. He is scared of people because people are nasty towards him. Brian, mine caretaker, is an autistic old man who has a passion for cleaning and looking after a mine, which benefits everyone who visits. He does this entirely for free. We should be very happy that such a person exists. Most urbex sites don't have someone keeping them nice. Yet how do people repay him? Some people have gone and deliberately painted the stones in the mine, knowing that Brian would have to spend hours cleaning them all. This is bullying, and anyone that can not see this bulling for what it is, is a pathetic, toxic person.

[@Jellytoaster]

This lad really went down to the bowels of the earth, got lost, panicked with his torch dying, and then went down there 4 more times after that😅☠️ great video, had fun watching this even tho I could never

[@StavTech]

Best video I've seen of Browns Folly, well explained, for the first time it's a video I get an idea of what is where. Nice work!

[@infinitesimotel]

Crazy stuff mate, good going!

[@mushroomcraft]

So glad to see this video! At least some things are still able to go on KZbin.

[@Andrewjg_89]

Interesting to know about how this mine is so massive which gives you an impressive insight into how it became so massive when it was first built.

[@Jamieloveslifts]

Otis gen2 are really good

[@benolifts]

Nope!

[@jakewynn]

it would be super awesome if we could have a mini map with the blue man

[@mushroomcraft]

That takes tonnes of effort to edit together

[@jakewynn]

@@mushroomcraft well I was thinking about it and I don't think it does. I could probably do it for about 15mins of extra editing

[@mushroomcraft]

@@jakewynn if you've ever edited a video, you will know that even the "simplest" of things take way too long. Also the video is half an hour, so there's no way it's taking less than half an hour. I'd say it would probably take an hour

[@jakewynn]

@@mushroomcraft I have 😭 given that he already has the map. He just needs to set a time frame to the new position ever so often and have the map ease in between the time frames.

[@mushroomcraft]

@@jakewynn easy to do once, what about 20 times? and there are times it has to disappear, such as when the big map is showing

[@professionalineverything]

When will you record in 60FPS, although it takes quite a bit of arrangement such as a large SD/Micro SD card at a minimum of 256GB for 24h and a good camera/phone for example a Go Pro, I believe the investment will be worth it after all, recording at 60FPS gets more detail in via a smoother video...

[@tomstickland]

I know it quite well. There's larger quarries nearby.

[@StraightOuttaPaddock]

crazy lads

[@mushroomcraft]

How do the tiny bits get so tiny? Do they use the tunnels to dump waste rock? Collapses? Like when middle passage gets really low, why would they fill that in?

[@benolifts]

A lot of the tunnels have been backfilled with the unused stone that was mined. The mine was used for mining stone blocks to build houses, and mining it would have created a lot of small unusable stones which got dumped in the side passages. There has been quite a few collapses over the years. This mine predates modern mining machinery, which is why the passages are so small. I will soon upload a video of an active modern mine, and it looks very different, with large passages that diggers can drive down.

[@mushroomcraft]

@@benolifts Yea, I've seen another of your videos of a modern mine, and it's way more organised, it resembles a strip mine someone would make in Minecraft 🤣 How would they have lit up the mine back then? I don't see anything that looks like it could be used to hold electrical lights or torches. Would they have used only portable lights? Or did they just clear it all up to be re-used?

[@benolifts]

@@mushroomcraft Browns Folly mine predates electricity. They used a flame in a miners lamp.

[@infinitesimotel]

What were they mining here?

[@benolifts]

Stone blocks to make buildings

[@infinitesimotel]

@@benolifts Interesting, it makes sense, the blocks for the more granadiose building s do seem to have this type of stone block.

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