Going down the Platt

[@JohnBath-f8p]

My dad Don Bath started mining work in South Wales and moved to Chatterley Whitfield in 1955 and stayed there until 1979 helping to build the museum after closure in 1977. He passed away in 1979 at the age of 53. The current state of the site is terrible!

[@JohnBath-f8p]

P.s. Coming from Wales I loved the Welsh music at the end. The song is Myfanwy. Diolch yn fawr. Thank you!

[@mcmennis]

Could you still get down that shaft??? Would be amazing to film down there with HD cameras

[@ChatterleyWhitfield]

Unfortunately all sealed off. No Access..All shafts full of water

[@mcmennis]

@@ChatterleyWhitfield where they flooded on purpose or is it because once you go past the water table it constantly needed pumping out? I only live up the road in Biddulph. There is a video of a camera going all the way down the Hesketh, was that all underwater. It went 280 meters deep!!!

[@martinehammond4126]

@@mcmennis I know it's an old post but I've just come across it. When Florence colliery in Fenton/Longton stopped pumping because it was being closed, all the collieries in the local area started to flood as it was the main pumping station for the area. My brother had worked at Florence upto it's closure and before then at Holditch at Chesterton, Newcastle.

[@vikingsmb]

@@ChatterleyWhitfield platt shaft is open down to the underground experience, once you guys are up and running you should reopen the underground experience in the fan drift, and use the cages again

[@1122geoff]

I am sure that was Jim Sweeney

[@1122geoff]

He was our deputy at Hem Heath a bloke always grafting