It Collapsed! BLACKPOOL Huge Abandoned Salt Mine

Abandoned Mine Collapsed Near Blackpool! - Lost Salt Mine Railway. Watch Nodrog and local history researcher Stewart venture alongside a lost railway line that once served a salt mine and discover the secrets it holds.
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[@stewriley1183]

What a fab morning Gordon, thanks for the invite, raising a glass to Freddy Daves 🍻

[@waynepaxford7263]

Great video Gordon with great information I hope you and your family and friends are well and safe

[@nodrog]

All good captain. All good.

[@grahamshaw4686]

Great VlogNodRog

[@Sim0nTrains]

Great Video Nodrog, some funny moments in this one but a very interesting area

[@robingoodrick4876]

Born in Preesall ..used to fish Acre pit ,Alkali..pit 1 and 2. Brings back so many memories. Fascinates me how deep the Big hole is... apparently my grandma saw that collapse from their house at town foot. Great video thanks..👍

[@nodrog]

@@robingoodrick4876 my pleasure buddy 👍

[@thefabulousstevieg]

Growing up in Preesall and my best friend living at Cote Walls Farm which is very close to the old railway line you walked along, I know the area well. A very interesting video, but if my friends father (now long passed!) had caught you wandering across his fields back in the day, you would have been in bother!

[@andyrichardsvideovlogs8835]

Great video Gordon. Please can we have more on the Over Wyre area and the "Knotty" in particular.

[@jamfjord]

Spectacular work, Gordon and Stew - fascinating film. Cheers

[@nodrog]

Many thanks buddy 🙏

[@jamfjord]

@@nodrog no worries, thanks for putting the time and effort in to tell these stories. Amazing how we spend half our lives passing these places without realising the fascinating and moving histories behind them.

[@larx4074]

Terrific!! Well produced and very enjoyable, many thanks.......

[@nodrog]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@antonchristian873]

Brilliant ! this place has fascinated me since I was a kid. I visited once in the 70s , found a boarded over hole ,dropped a pebble down it, and had to wait ages for the faint splash, scary !

[@davidberlanny3308]

Great video, really enjoyed watching. It reminded me of the one you did at Glosson docks but a quick look on google maps shows me that Glosson is further up the coast. Amazing that they went so deep to extract rock salt it must have seemed more economical back then I suppose Good luck from Spain!!

[@stephensutcliffe1555]

Thank you very much for the upload.

[@owenslanejunction7544]

Great video

[@frazerweb]

Interesting explore, the rock salt mine shafts were sunk to 900ft. A salt well BW 88 at Height O'th Hill Farm, Stalmine collasped and still expanding.

[@nodrog]

Wow. That’s great info. Much appreciated

[@psychokeef]

Great video Gordon of history that has been forgotten. It’s great when you go on these explores as you make them very interesting and you do your research which make your videos fascinating to watch 👏👏👏

[@nodrog]

Bobby dazzler captain. Many thanks buddy 🙏

[@Jimyjames73]

Very good - 'Salt' some more vid out please!!! 😉😀🚂🚂🚂

[@ReubenAshwell]

Very intersting video. :)

[@laddersman]

i lived Preesall for 41 years, i lived down town foot for 31 years of these ,what a great video this is seeing the big hole and number 1 and 2 pit . i cant forget acre's pit neither . memories .

[@nodrog]

Cheers buddy

[@davidcook380]

Great Nogrod

[@thomasjohnholland1738]

Hope they do listen to what happened at Stalmine and over Wyre, when they start Fracking from Wyre Tom

[@lois20]

I led a geology group I belong to (GeoLancashire) on a field excursion round the salt mines which was mostly about the geological history of the site but also included a little of the industrial history. It would've been really helpful to have had access to your drone footage when summing up the day.... thanks for that research

[@nodrog]

If you need any footage in future- just ask 👍

[@Andrewjg_89]

As I’m watching this I’m fascinated that how rock salt was produced and how it created jobs which is now sad to see as it’s all gone. But very interesting information. Awesome video Nodrog. Keep up the good work.

[@s125ish]

Sure is

[@Andrewjg_89]

👍

[@chumpcity1126]

Around 2004 / 2005 a homeless guy used to live in the main building, he even wrote his name on the door to the room he was living in

[@stewriley1183]

Wow, really, well out of the way there

[@Mark-bo6ld]

Hi nodrog new steam train 5 November inward at 15.45 outward at 19.00 at Blackpool North

[@s125ish]

New ?

[@Mark-bo6ld]

@@s125ish no new to blackpool

[@westrain2]

Very interesting video

[@nodrog]

Glad you think so! Cheers buddy

[@alexandrunistoroiu452]

Interesting! Do you know if it's for sale?

[@nodrog]

Unsure buddy.

[@gweilo965]

I commute past a sink hole in Preesall. Pal told me that was due to salt mine

[@Thornaby37]

The salt mine may be lost forever but at least the Black Bull Inn survives

[@nodrog]

Amen 🙏 🍻

[@wam2610]

👍

[@sparkyprojects]

In one way surprising about the collapse, there are salt mines that now store documents and other treasures, there's even one that has a lab, i guess those are well drained Not like Lake Peigneur in Louisianna where miners drilled into a salt mine, the amounts of stuff that got swallowed was huge, and caught on camera.

[@stewriley1183]

When I read up about Preesall, I found that the United Alkali company used their experience in Preesall to improve the mining techniques elsewhere, I think they made a lot of mistakes early on through lack of knowledge. I also expect the areas they operated (like Cheshire where I think you’re referring to) are very different environments.

[@sparkyprojects]

@@stewriley1183 I had to look it up, but yeah, one of the storage places is cheshire, i think there are others There's a lab at Boulby mine near Whitby, not sure if it's the same one i saw on a documentary

[@jamfjord]

@@sparkyprojects knowing the geography of the Preesall area (very low lying and close to the sea), I guess it's probably not surprising in hindsight, especially using soluble material as support, but hindsight is always 20:20 as they say

[@martinclarke8094]

Don't do it Stew.

[@HarryBrock-j8b]

Did you get permission to go on there?

[@garrycroft4215]

In recent times they wanted to fill the salt caverns at Stalmine with Liquified Natural Gas. Given what’s happened with the war perhaps they should have done.

[@jamfjord]

What could possibly go wrong? I suppose we'd finally learn what's in the hole after it gets redistributed across Wyre...