Scout Moor Colliery Field Study. An important mining site is about to disappear into a quarry

[@andrewhenderson5645]

I'm the windfarm site manager and have notice all sorts of signs around the area of past workings. This video has answered many questions. Thanks

[@sylviawalchvideos]

Very interesting thank you. Look forward to the next installment.

[@Gillmeister2465]

Thanks for the video Clive and Ronnie absolutely brilliant history

[@petertaylor84]

very interesting, as always - can't wait for the next installment

[@grahampartridge9335]

Great video. Looked like a proper damp day. I always think how much effort it must have taken to get machinery right up there

[@rossendalecollieries7995]

Thanks Graham. For sure, when you get to those old shafts on the top and look at all the peat hags you really begin to appreciate all the effort that went in

[@comewalkwithus123]

Another fantastic video as always. keep up the good work :)

[@jodman176]

Thanks for this, the local history in this area is amazing and so overlooked (as most of it is ontop of these wonderfull moors). Thank you look forward to more.

[@nickparker5163]

I used to live in Rammy, and spent a lot of time up here and been in thar tunnel. Interesting video.

[@TheGoggleAccount]

Fascinating stuff - so glad you were able to document this. I grew up in Edenfield (village shop) and have fond memories of these hills, including exploring old workings (not these), following the coal tracks off the moors and once -scarily - nearly running over the cliff into the quarry. I’m looking forward to the Duckworth’s / Rothesay Castle edition, somewhere I have a detailed newspaper report but it’s probably the one you alluded to here. Which Duckworth was the Duckworth Arms named for?

[@rossendalecollieries7995]

Im not sure about that one, re the pub..there are so many Duckworths...so hard to trace the family properly

[@cephid1]

My Grandpa is recorded as working there in the 1921 census, he was involved in a mining accident not sure if it was there, it was thought that he was missing presumed dead, he managed to get out and crawled half a mile home thank you for this

[@rossendalecollieries7995]

Thanks for that. Havent got access to the 1921 census. any idea of accident date? What was your Grandad called? Thanks for your comment

[@cephid1]

Sorry only just seen this , he was William Bailey, he lived in I think Edenfield I know it wasn't before 1920 as although he was from Crawshabooth pre 1914 he met and married my Granny sometime during the WW1in Somerset, my mother was born in somerset, and moved to Lancashire when she was 3 in1920 @@rossendalecollieries7995

[@ronniesimpson3665]

The wash pool is further around the hill Clive. The Mine ruins are more substantial with more to see. You can also get into a small part of the tramway tunnel.

[@rossendalecollieries7995]

we will have to go look Ronnie...you were right on last vid when you said I looked tired...came down with the Covid bug a few days after...been rough ever since...must have let myself get run down

[@rogerchadwick2255]

Brilliant video thank you

[@chrisgreenhalgh6358]

A year or two since I walked up there not really aware that there had been coal mining in the area. Always associated the tram ways with building the reservoirs up there. Found this out since exploring the area ,as for your wondering how coal was transported from Whittle Pike mines, there are the remains of wooden pylons across neighbouring Knowl moor, which I am told by some of the old residents of Norden, used to carry a bucket cable to take coal to the old mill at Greenbooth , now sadly covered by the reservoir water. On some of the ground towards the reservoir, you can see evidence of coal dust that was lost from the buckets by wind and spillage.

[@rossendalecollieries7995]

The tramway was also used for the res

[@keithrimmer3]

Thank's for this well done saving the history of this area, will the quarry take all the pillars of coal that's left in there Clive or are they just after the stone

[@john-k6k6w]

Nice 👍 One

[@stephenbeck6631]

I think you videos are absolutely brilliant. Being a x miner myself i started in 1975 i defoe remember. Mr Valentin he was a stickler remember him saying to one lad in r class if tha not intrested get dern road and under bridge and get on bus un don't come back.. I started in mining craft 2 there was mec 1 and 2. The instructor who took us down bold training gallery was a man called Tommy Peet it was in east rushey park district. One of Tommy trates at snap time he said anyone dost anyone want try a pinch of snuff hedges there was snot a lad sneezeing ow o place and another was does anyone want try a chew of bacco it was pig tail some of lads who tried it turned green and pukin up they swollowed some i just geet hikups but it geet me chewing i chewed tonybrown till i finished wish id know about Burnley private pits id of gone for a job. Worked goldborne Parsonage then Bickershaw then parkside and silverdale with cementation tunnelling. Coal face i started on was crombroke and florida it was 3 1/2 foot tall and sixfeet but we only cut under dirt band then later on they cut the birt band and the other 3ft of coal above it. We also worked higher florida it was 3ft seam but high quility coal i remember some Burnley lads transferring to Golborne after Hampton valley closed i can only remember one blokes name his second name was Antrobus. Then we went in plodder mine thats were the explosion happened i carried the ventalation officers coffgin at his funeral very sad day. Aanyway keep the videos comming there brilliant mining his in your blood and never leaves you we was all a band of brothers⛏️🛠️⛏️👍

[@rossendalecollieries7995]

Thanks very much for your encouragement. Val obviously left quite an impression on all of us, he was a real pitmans pitman

[@pcppestcontrol]

I remember Tommy Peet at the Bold Training gallery, what a charactor, good old times

[@spenstrangward5126]

I pull stone out of scoutmoor and was told that it was an opencast mine in the 80s. Is this true..

[@rossendalecollieries7995]

They did opencast some of the coal before they started to quarry. But for most of its life it was an underground mine

[@spenstrangward5126]

@@rossendalecollieries7995 cheers for the reply.. Marshall are pulling out of scout moor soon i think mayers are going on to pull stone out and i think start filling it up ..

[@rossendalecollieries7995]

@@spenstrangward5126 I Know Tony Jepson at Scout and Jamie Rumsan at Fletcher Bank. I do have some photos when they open cast, was fantastic to see the old workings

[@spenstrangward5126]

@@rossendalecollieries7995 id love to see them.. ive only lived up here 18 years

[@briantaylor8366]

another good informative video clive and some big words.burnley bill.

[@rossendalecollieries7995]

I will see if I can think of any more big words Brian...Hot Dog In Cricklewood

[@briantaylor8366]

@@rossendalecollieries7995 indubitably .clive