The Remains of an Old Colliery. Uncovering the past

In this video we look at the remains of an old colliery and investigate to uncover the past. Jubilee colliery is situated just outside Rochdale in Lancashire Great Britain. It is an old coal mine, a disused colliery that opened in 1845 and closed in 1932. This disused coal mine still has remains of the old buildings and coke ovens . We look at the history of coal mining in this area around the Pennines in Lancashire. We also look at how the archeologists have uncovered the old industrial buildings revealing the past. This urban exploration urbex is a fascinating look at a disused colliery and insight into the history of coal mining

[@Materialworld4]

I live in Phoenix, Arizona, but my family lived in Manchester in the early nineteenth century, My great-great-great-grandfather owned several fabric mills southeast of Manchester in the 1820s and 1830s. He tried to recoup his losses on a fire at one of his mills by gambling with some local lords. Needless to say he lost almost everything and he went to debtors prison while his family was forced to work in a cotton mill until their eventual escape in 1836. The family escaped via the underground railroad, boarded a ship in Liverpool, and crossed the U.S. in 1845 by wagon on their way to California. I love your videos Martin, they are very interesting, and you add a fabulous vocal narrative. Jack

[@brearleydavid2194]

Absolutely brilliant..the editing, the music the passion..thank you.

[@daveflick12]

Thanks Martin another absolutely brilliant video. We never know what or where the next video is about but great being on the journey with you. Very poetic ending to the brave men who sacrificed theirs life’s for our generation

[@MartinZero]

Thank you Dave 👍🏼

[@davidclark3603]

Absolutely brilliant! I had to watch it again, and no doubt several times! Your documentaries are superb. You are an excellent filmmaker and presenter. Thanks for your time Martin!

[@MartinZero]

Thank you David much appreciated

[@kdean9537]

Absolutely wonderful...really interesting, great choice in music and your passion shines through! Nice thoughtful ending. Heritage should never be forgotten. Loving your videos 💖... Thank you...take care!

[@MartinZero]

Thank you very much 👍

[@valerielongmore5040]

My great grandfather worked as a brickmaster in the Newhey brickworks nearby. Very nostalgic film, you bring the past alive. Beautifully produced and an amazing tribute to our forefathers.

[@SMlFFY85]

The bricks used at Jubilee have Newhey on them.

[@JemTheWire]

Quality. Educational and you even manage to pull at the heart strings. Fantastic stuff. I have driven passed there many times and didn't even know it was there.

[@stevehuddart1991]

I’m not in the habit of clicking “like” on videos. I make an exception for yours. You’re capturing a disappearing life, and your videos will become even more important when future generations look back. Keep up the good work.

[@MartinZero]

Thank you Steve much appreciated

[@totherarf]

Just for reference (I am sure many others know this) The Shaft was the vertical hole dug into the ground. The winding gear connected to this to wind coal up and miners down. The Face (Coal Face) was the working edge of the coal seam, where the coal was actually dug from! Usually they dug a shaft down and when they reached the coal seam they would branch out sideways. After the tunnel was dug they branched off at 90 degrees and formed a "U" shape of tunnels (3 tunnels at 90 degrees) They then proceeded to cut the coal out from the seam leaving occasional pillars of coal to hold the roof up. Obviously the more they left the more secure the roof, but Coal was money so many pillars were undercut too much! This was the cause of many cave in's! ..... That and rotting pit props!

[@macfast71]

Another great insight into our industrial past. I am very grateful to Connor and yourself for having the passion to discover these hidden and often forgotten gems so we can reflect on our past. Thanks Martin

[@trevorwright6165]

that was a beautiful film martin and the way you put it over about the hard graft and the death of children and some men all in a days work thank you martin all the best from trev

[@MartinZero]

Cheers Trev

[@lesliegprice6652]

Great video Martin, all my mum's family were miners, we were the first generation not to have to go down the pits, no wonder they had such a strong tradition of music, learning and self betterment to offset the terrible working conditions,my Grandfather was a member of the temperance league, thank you again for highlighting a forgotten industry that once powered the industrial revolution, Here's to Old King Coal.....

[@ryansleftboot]

No matter how moody i may find myself watching your videos never fails to uplift and inspire. Cheers Martin. Top one. Nice one. Get sorted!

[@MartinZero]

Cheers pal 😀

[@suzysharpe2141]

Once again Martin... a brilliant video ! Fascinating and so interesting as all your videos are !! Thank you. Looking forward to your next outing !😀😀. !!

[@christopherescott6787]

Once again our weekly history lesson has enlightened and educated us. We look forward to our weekly history class. Thanks once again for an outstanding tour! Cheers from Edmonton, Canada.

[@garycharles8649]

Always get excited when I see a notification for a Martin Zero upload! Brilliant video :))

[@pauldevey8628]

Love this video. I love industrial archeology. I remember taking my wife to Iron Gorge for our honeymoon (and other not as nice places like london, liverpool, edinburgh etc). We walked through the woods and stumbled across partially buried buildings, slag from iron works, pieces of glass and dishes from old long ago factories. Thank You from the New World!

[@MartinZero]

Cheers Paul

[@bullettube9863]

Love your videos! There used to be massive coking facilities all over England as well in America. Coke was used to make iron into steel, as well as a smokeless fuel for homes. Later the exhaust gas was used for fuel as well. You stated the temperature was about 500 degrees Celsius, but I've seen figures of 1,000 to 2,000 degrees! That so many of these old beehive coke ovens are no longer necessary anymore is amazing!

[@yankeeclipper4326]

Fascinating, educational, compelling, interesting and visually enjoyable. As always. Thank you for the video Martin.

[@johnlaw3323]

Yet again Martin and Connor a brilliant subject and production. You really get across the atmosphere of the place then and now with great respect and context.

[@cyberdonblue4413]

Once again, an amazing video filled with passion and fact. Those poor men - long since dead - worked a very hard life for little reward but they and their spouses raised their children with love and respect. Hard working people, every one of them.

[@graemepilkington3080]

Had a root in some stuff I have for the Jubilee Colliery and it was one of the first to install an electric pump down the shaft in 1890, the power for it was appropriately supplied from an Oldham dynamo and was "run on average for 100-150 hrs a week except for 4 or 5 hrs on a few occasions when fuses burned out for a variety of reasons'. Cutting edge stuff at the time and a nice illustration as well.

[@scottjlambert]

Beautifully done Martin! You always put so much of yourself into your videos and it shows every time.

[@ericthekingthekingtheking4842]

Martin your enthusiasm and passion for these places of interest is what makes these videos for me, absolutely fantastic the way you come across mate keep it up

[@neilwilliams2409]

Nice one very interesting. Ex miner so very relevant for me. The little room with the arch could well be part of the winding house/ boiler house. Nice site.

[@MartinZero]

Cheers Neil

[@Tuberuser187]

Fantastic, I have been having a fairly miserable evening but then I see a Martin Zero upload and instantly improved it! Thanks for showing us this site, very informative as usual.

[@Swampfox69]

Another amazing video Martin. The way you mix your exploration with a bit of history, noticing and highlighting the beauty of nature around you in that area, and paying homage to those who either built or worked in those places, makes for must see viewing. I'm looking forward to your next installment. 👍

[@bcegerton]

Great vlog Martin, love the way they have left it to Nature and turned it in a Reserve. Love those archways in the remains, so nice to see it hasn’t all been demolished. Thanks for doing all the hard work find and videoing these places along with Connor. Look forward to the next one

[@paulj1873]

Interesting video. I like the look of it as it's being reclaimed by nature. Great work Martin!

[@castlejunction1707]

As a family we love your videos.....this was so interesting....long may you continue.....until the next one....take care....

[@MartinZero]

Thank you castle Junction 👍

[@djrouge3300]

A very touching video, especially taking a moment and appreciating the lives lived and lost in the local mining community.

[@iangrange7124]

Hi Martin, What a wonderful and poignant video mate, love how you give the expression of feelings and ideas to how you imagined the men and boys who did that kind of work, and what a stunning end to your video with that emotional piece of music with the Epilogue by The Durutti Column cut into it was beautiful mate.Thank you. Going to dig out my "Time was gigantic album out and turn the volume up. Do you think you could find a space in one of you future videos for bit of Eno? Haha Keep up your wonderful passion Martin looking forward to you next video

[@davexjs5889]

Another Great Video My Farther was a Miner Bradford and Agecroft. I've Added to This Post Because of A Wish To Explain My Farther My Dad 5 Foot 8 Stocky Hands As Big As Shovels A Face Coal Miner (Face Work More Dangerous But More Money) Never To complain But When Undressed Black Scars All Over His Boddy Tattoos ( Open Cuts to his body Filled With Coal Dust ) Coal Dust Tattoos. Every mine collapse fatality men died Luckily Dad Survived With His Coal Dust Tattoos. He's Alive Today And Still Enjoying A Pint He's Ten men more than me I'm Just A plumber. Love Him To Bits.

[@sharonstuebi8181]

I didnt see a video of yours for 2 days.....OMG,you are such a beautiful story teller. Absolutely mesmerizing!

[@ToddTalksTech]

No brickwork too deep, no tunnel too small. Martin Zero will videograph it all. Awesome video Martin.Thanks!

[@richardbidinger2577]

Once again, a great video. Fantastic how much work went into building these structures. Even more fantastic is the amount of time,effort, and enthusiasm you put into these videos, to document a lot of this history that was almost forgotten. Loved the end of the video to. It seemed very fitting.

[@MartinZero]

Thanks Richard. I loved that footage of the miners 👍

[@rydermike33]

Another wonderful evocative film Martin. Thank you so much. Those people had such a hard life, it's difficult to imagine what they went through on a daily basis.

[@duncanhowarth9514]

Hello Martin! Another cracking video but I wished I'd known you was coming round to my neck of the woods. I don't know if you saw the message I sent to you recently about Jubilee Colliery but in that correspondence I mentioned that I was part of the Groundwork team that got "stuck in" on that particular unearthing project that you mentioned in your video. It was actually the tail end of 2012 (October-ish). I know because it was cold, wet, miserable and even snowing on one occasion, but it was bloody enjoyable! Shortly after that I managed to secure work again (Jan. 2013). I joined the team to break the monotony of unemployment as I'm not impartial to a bit of physical hard graft and it turned out to be a cracking move as it was thoroughly enjoyable. During our digs in different locations (we split into individual teams) rail tracks from the coal-loading sidings were unearthed and so was the brick wall that edged the loading platform and the sidings. That gave all of us a real buzz. Sadly, as I mentioned in my previous message to you, we had to fill it all in on H&S grounds. It was us that also shifted the muck and what-have-you from the coke ovens. In addition to the above, Groundwork arranged for a couple of ex-miners to join us and talk us through "how it used to be". It was a father and his son. They explained how a lot of colliery tunnels in that area interconnected with each other. From the hilltop where you start your video they pointed out which colliery's were where and which overlapped. It's pretty much the same case in Oldham/Royton/Crompton. In fact, if you look at houses (especially garden walls), parks and pathways in these areas you can see the result of subsidence. Anyway, the two miners even participated in the "Open Day" that was arranged at the end of the project and I still have a copy of the local Oldham Chronicle newspaper story though I don't know how to post it on here, sadly.

[@duncanhowarth9514]

Incidentally, there were five (5) seams at various depths, as far as I can remember. I think the deepest was around 600 feet.

[@MartinZero]

Thats brilliant Duncan. Well all your work paid off. Pity so much more got covered again that would have been good to see. Thank you to you and the team 👌

[@SMlFFY85]

@@MartinZero I have some photos of the site during the excavation although not as many as I used to have due to a hard drive failure.

[@duncanhowarth9514]

@@SMlFFY85: Hello Smiffy! Was you on that same team of about 15 of us around 10 years or so ago? I was the fella that "took the tennis ball home" when we were playing that silly "team building" rubbish outside on the Groundworks lawn, tossing the tennis ball to each other when all I wanted to do was "get stuck in" and get digging.

[@nickwood4776]

Beautifully shot and scored. Amazing to see and hear our local history Martin, and how nature always reclaims what was taken.

[@fujiuser1968]

Love your videos,some more than others but I think this is your best to date..history,nostalgia,emotion and sadness,all rolled into 1..keep up the good work my friend :-)

[@HROM1908]

Beautifully done and with such sensitivity. Thank you so much.

[@BugRacer1955]

As soon as I read the caption I thought Jubilee 🙂 this is where my great grandfather worked & also my great uncle before heading to France for WW1. Your absolutely right life was harder for them than we’ll probably ever appreciate, thanks for making this film Martin

[@MartinZero]

Thank you Glyn

[@vlogsandstuff3159]

Loved the video mate. Nice to see a location almost untouched with remains of the past. Nice place to explore when the weather comes nicer. Thank you for the lovely video.

[@MartinZero]

Thanks Roy

[@edwardhalpin7503]

Excellent video! I love your work. The background the Legacy, the old film clip the history is a wonderful combination I enjoy it so much thank you

[@MartinZero]

Thank you Edward

[@richcampoverde]

Another masterpiece martin your enthusiasm is contagious

[@MartinZero]

Thanks 👍

[@bobdog69yes]

Fantastic video as always Martin. Great surprise to see you cover Jubilee Colliery. Full circle for me as this is my local patch which got me started on my KZbin hunt for more info about it..I came across your channel which has just drawn me in ..binge watched your videos and now you’ve come and covered my home site! It’s a fascinating place with lots of glimpses and clues of what has gone on in its past. Hope you also got to see the Ellenroad Engine House in Newhey before heading back! Keep up the great work.

[@MartinZero]

Thanks yes I want to see that engine

[@Andy-From-England]

Martin .. You and Conner are a inspiration for you tube this platform was made for you i love your videos very educational i just hope you get further in your work by getting your own discovery channel as you deserve it

[@MartinZero]

Thank you Andy much appreciated 👍

[@WHITTONZ]

I think the coal was baked in those ovens to produce coke only, the gas being burnt off in the flue to the chimney. In gasworks, coal is heated in large iron tubes called retorts to produce town gas. Manchester museum of science and technology had a super display about this at one time. Very interesting episode once again, thank you.

[@mileshigh1321]

What great tribute too all the people an families that toiled there day after day, providing what was needed to build the country and make England a ground breaker in the industrial age! Great history shared again Martin! I love that its now a nature trail and everyone can enjoy it!

[@MartinZero]

Yes it’s a beautiful place and thank you 👍

[@breth8159]

Cheers from San Diego California your videos are captivating and it saved me a plane flight to the UK ... seriously great stuff as I love the Industrial Revolution ...

[@MartinZero]

Thanks Bret 👍

[@bobingram6912]

Another great vid bringing history to life. Keep it up, I'm sitting here waiting for the next one - hurry up lad!!!!

[@brianartillery]

Another exceptional video, Martin. I love how you find these lost gems, and share them with us. For anyone who says 'History is boring', I'd challenge them to watch some of your videos. You're steering into Fred Dibnah levels of passion, knowledge, and sheer enthusiasm for the past. And that, my friend, is a very, very good thing indeed. Nice one. Oh, and what was that beautiful, and evocative music played throughout the video, please?

[@MartinZero]

Thank you very much. But I can only walk in Fred Dibnahs shadow 👍

[@kathryns4722]

Saw the Jubilee Inn on the map. My mum and dad used to go there for a 'night out' when we were kids (late 70s); then, when I was old enough and passed my driving test, I used to go there with my friends for half a lager (80s)! The pub had a nice feel to it - never knew about the mine though. Great to see it returned to nature and fascinating info about the water ingress and town supply. What else - oh yes, love your music choices - very evocative. Love yer work.

[@SMlFFY85]

That pub is derelict now and looking in a sorry state, it'll probably fall down before anything is done with it.

[@kathryns4722]

@@SMlFFY85 That's a shame, but so typical of today. Suppose it hasn't been a pub for a long time now.

[@19bob53]

About half a mile from our factory Martin, knew there had been a colliery and mill but wasn't aware it was a nature reserve. Well Martin, your videos teach us something new every time you present one, thanks, these are so interesting and informative.

[@musicallament]

Hi Martin, thanks for your fantastic videos. You are showing me so much of Manchester that I didn't have the time to explore during my student years at the MMU back in 1996. Your accent is entirely Mancunian and it's making me nostalgic.

[@MartinZero]

Thanks glad your enjoying

[@Whocares.........]

Nowadays, We work smarter, not harder. Wonderfully done, Thanks for this! Rox from California

[@delboytrotter8806]

Cali what ?

[@Mechsounds]

G'day Martin, Really enjoying your videos. All your productions are a great history lesson for a viewer in the land down under. Cheers, Greg

[@noreenedge8951]

Another good video,Martin.Poignant music as well .Excellent content .Alway a delight to watch your channel.

[@magiera92]

Fantastic video again! Great to see you in Rochdale, there's plenty more here, so don't hesitate to rush back! I was wondering if that rail line is now the Metrolink, turns out it is and I was on it on Saturday!

[@TomMckeownTV]

Yet again Martin an interesting and well made video. Definitely one of the most underrated KZbinrs out there! Keep it up bud!

[@MartinZero]

Cheers Tom

[@msoddsoxsox974]

Excellent tribute to the ancestors . Thank you for your hard work, a pleasure to watch!

[@ThePhilmein7]

Cinematography was excellent another great video cheers martin

[@MartinZero]

Thank you Phil

[@wasdalemanexploringoutdoor5137]

I love those old videos there literally like looking threw a window into another time. Another great video Martin, and credit to you for doing your research.

[@MartinZero]

Thanks

[@markphillips2076]

Martin, that's one place I've not heard of before, very interesting. I know of a few disused collieries, like the one in Bradford you've mentioned in the past and the Snipe Colliery in Ashton. I used to play on the spoil heaps of the Snipe pit. I'm just old enough to remember the Bradford colliery as we used to travel to Ancoats a lot back then. Have you had a look at the Hollinwood branch of the Ashton canal? Another lost waterway, although most of it is walkable. It runs from Droylesden to Daisy Nook. There's a branch to Oldham road and a link to the Park Bridge Ironworks. From Crime lake there was an ill-fated attempt to link to the Rochdale canal. As the canal follows the Medlock Valley and ends up next to the river, it links in with your Medlock River series.

[@JDLeonard74]

That was very interesting. Old sites like that are a beauty. There is an old gold mine near my area in North Carolina, called Reid's gold mine that is like that. I was afraid that old flue was going to collapse on you. Extraordinary how much it stood up to for all those years. Great poem to go with that at the end.🙏

[@traceyprescott8347]

Another brilliant vid Martin, thank you. Regards Paul. Amazed that tv producers are not knocking at your door.

[@grahamfoster9404]

Martin , thanks for a cracking video story. It was a tough life then when our industrious past was at its peak thanks again.

[@MsStevieWoo]

Thanks martin........... love how ya starting to cut with the walk through b-roll. Great work as always. :)

[@MsStevieWoo]

Oh my, this ends with such a tease

[@GeraldineJayne]

Another fantastic video! You have a talent at putting these together. They are a work of art !

[@stuartwalmsley1379]

Great video, makes you think about the hardships of our ancestors, thanks for taking the time to record such great history

[@John_C999]

Fab video Martin. I noticed the other day the gasometer’s on liverpool st in salford have gone, i always thought they were he largest listed buildings in salford and the smallest is the old telephone box on the crescent outside the old police station, keep up the good work pal.👍

[@kevandaly3871]

great video as usual Martin but why go all the way to Rochdale when you were stood 100 metres away from wet earth colliery when you did the 13 arches vid? you have to do that one and flechers canal that joins the colliery to the canal at the aqueduct you included in that vid. just saying. keep up the great work mate.

[@MartinZero]

Rochdale ain’t that far 😃I will do wet earth 👍

[@kevandaly3871]

@@MartinZero give me a shout if you do wet earth/fletchers canal I know all its hidden treasures

[@vladthedad]

Thanks Martin. Great vid as always. Lovin the music and thought put into the story telling. Some really nice touches here.

[@Urbexy]

Another top drawer video. The history of the industrial past is always fascinating. A few times I have visited old collieries I am always slightly nervous about the ground because you never quite know what just below the surface :-)

[@MartinZero]

Yeah I was wondering about old shafts under foot 🤔

[@redshorse]

Interesting and informative. Well filmed with good sound. Good post!

[@MartinZero]

Thanks Chris

[@peterkilvert2712]

Another great find and presentation. Many thanks Martin.

[@davek8318]

Another excellent video thanks Martin. I can't wait to go exploring all the places you make videos of as I'm in the northwest so love how your in Manchester so they are all close to me. Keep up the great work.

[@evilladollyz7602]

Great video. That man at the end in the video footage though... His stern looking face looking eerily into the camera.. I wonder if he worked at the collier.. I'm glad they made an attempt to unearth some of the history and turned it into a nature reserve.

[@MartinZero]

That footage was of Miners leaving Pendlebury colliery. I loved studying the people

[@evilladollyz7602]

He looked as though he led a hard life. I wonder what his life was like. One can only imagine.

[@billbixby6411]

Another fantastic Martin Zero production,i'm sure your a ringer for some undercover television company :) I've just been watching the video you did on Exploring an underground river,Manchester,UK. It always amazes me how much building actually went on hundreds of years ago and how it's stood the test of time,there's always some footing and brickwork in the most obscure places and you can see it was always done properly. I sometimes ponder the same thing and try to imagine what these places were like at their peak with all the hustle and bustle going,must have been quite something. Great vids all of them.

[@MartinZero]

Thanks Bill nope am just an amateur. But that River was a great explore

[@billbixby6411]

@@MartinZero I know you are I was just having a laugh,Yorkshire humour i'm afraid. Yes, it was a great explore i totally agree.

[@macbuff81]

Very cool! I love imagining what those old buildings must have looked like. I love the stone arches

[@timquick1045]

Greetings from stoke again ,coming from a mining family I find your video fascinating ,keep them videos coming thanks

[@semidetached100]

Nice to see you back Martin with another splendid video, ruins and sights like this are all to common where I live too, you said the word Graft and thats just what it was hard graft from our forefathers we can only wonder what the hardships were and think on the vast profits made out of their labour by the mine owners.

[@martinkavanagh9641]

Hi Martin. A Quality video for your Quality viewers... fantastic added info about the coke making process too. I so enjoy your work from down here in NZ. - Peace brother.

[@MartinZero]

Thank you Martin 👍

[@tonymartin1119]

Great video of a most interesting historical site, Martin. I really enjoy watching your explorations. Incidentally the Upper Mountain Mine and Lower Mountain mine were coal seams worked in many Lancashire pits, the term ‘mine’ referred to coal seams. What we call coal mines were referred to as pits or collieries.

[@rachelbarker1785]

Loved this.. I live nearby and often visit. It's a lovely little place and I've learnt more about it. Thank you

[@MartinZero]

Yeah its very beautiful there Rachel

[@johnclarke2997]

I can remember as a 6 year old seeing the yellow/orange bus with NCB on the side which used to drive around the local area picking up the miners to go and work at nearby coal mine. All the miners had donkey jackets with a orange plastic (PVC) area around the shoulders with NCB on the back. 12 hour shifts what I remember. I did hear this comment that it was possible to walk from one coal field to another and never need to come above ground as many of the coal mines underground had been linked together when they were all owned by NCB. This allowed the NCB to rid themselves of loss making mines in some ways and build the bigger coal mines.

[@rheingau2011]

Great video and ending. I think the same at every old and ancient site. Once i visited an old roman big bakery at ostia antica, it was very fascinating.

[@ahmedthecamel5706]

Many thanks Martin for another great video and for highlighting towards the end that coal mining was such hard work. Sometimes we forget how good we have it these days.

[@MartinZero]

Hello Ahmed thank you, yes its unbelievable the conditions people worked in 👍🏼

[@johngoy9375]

Lovely video Martin - enjoyed watching. See you on the next video 👌

[@MartinZero]

Thanks John

[@paullatham7774]

Great video again Martin reminds me a lot of park bridge area where there are fallen buildings and other markers of a time gone by the iron works that was there was famous for making the rivets for the Eiffel Tower amongst other things The area has been preserved excellently and is a great day out . Keep up the fine work of educating and telling the story of this wonderful area manchester and surrounding towns we are proud to call home

[@MartinZero]

Hi thanks Paul yes I’ve been to Park Bridge

[@shekwh99]

cycled pass this and had a nosy... just had to google the history & so many people youtube this but rather listen to your comentating! good work

[@theusher2893]

A fascinating piece of history. We live in comfort due to the sacrifices of those who came before.

[@dchalkie]

Thank you Martin for another great video on our history 👍

[@ExploringwithCarl]

Some history and hard work that went on in and around these places. Thanks for another history lesson Mr zero 😁👍

[@MartinZero]

Cheers Carl

[@ExploringwithCarl]

@@MartinZero As always love your channel 👌

[@keithalexander3386]

Again a fascinating video. I have no idea how many times I have driven along that road before we left Milnrow for North Wales. It was very many. I had no idea what I was passing. Where the road changes sides of the railway/tram line the bridge is known as Jubilee Bend. In the area on the other side of the line is Dunwood and the guy who farmed there now sells fruit and veg two miles down the road from us in Anglesey.. Small world. Keep 'em coming!

[@MartinZero]

Thanks Keith yes that’s right Jubilee bends 👍

[@TheByard]

I worked as a miner on the Severn Wye Cable Tunnel construction project back in the 70s. I was employed mostly on the centre shaft tunnel site a Beachley in The Army Apprentices College grounds. the shaft was 180 feet deep and the tunnels then ran each way under the two rivers. At the peak of tunnel we were pumping 1900 gallons a min. up the centre shaft, the pumps could nut lift the water the full height so there were staging tanks with extra pumps in. We wore double sets of waterproofs, the new set under the old one so that took the wear and tear. When the tunnels were fully lined with concrete segment, with all the joints caulked tight. We started pumped in cement grout up to 5 bar in pressure to stem the inflow. We managed to get the ingress down to 50 gallons per week, I don't know how many tons of cement we used, but boy I wished I had shares in Blue Circle Cement.

[@MartinZero]

Wow thank you for the insight 👍

[@markmatthews7401]

Brilliant filmography and info Martin keep them coming mate

[@johnvickers5750]

Thanks again Martin another top vid! Coincedently our early old Victorian railway town coal gasometer is still in use today but sadly the only thing left of the furness oven buildings is now part of an arched brick boundary wall along the road. A by product from the coal was coke which was used in the towns LNWR Loco Works iron & later Bessimer steel foundery for smelting.

[@peter15871]

as an ex mine worker/colliery official ,great to see old buildings etc,the cap shaft marker may have details carved into it shaft dia/ depth of cap anyway great video yet again

[@mwrcrft]

Thanks for the info on the Jubilee Colliery preservation group they have many photos that add context to your very nice video. May I ask what are the buildings next to it as they look to be industrial. Also thanks to google maps I could see the old company row houses across the road.

[@chrisakachuck]

Matt Robin yes there are about 6 houses over the road which must have houses the workers. The building I think you mean is another later mill which I think was water powered