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Great enthusiasm in the narative. What's not to like?

That's how i remember rawtenstall, dark, gray, wet and everything looks dead

brilliant presenter. Me and my wife live on a boat and we joke about cooking knicker stew, basically we wash our clothe by putting them in a large kettle and shoving it on the wood burner. Cheap as chips when you have limited Lecky.

Excellent work Clive and great to see Woodhorn Colliery Museum so well set up and organised.

Thank you for another great history lesson Clive, It was wonderful and so sad about the new Hartley Pit disaster.

Another great video Clive, thank you.

Very interesting, the lady of the house really didn’t have an easy life, I remember my gran having an old dolly tub in her outhouse, she didn’t use it back then as she had a twin tub. I remember asking her why the little 3 legged stool had a big stick in the middle, she just laughed.

Intake not intack Clive haha

Il take a job too if you want me i worked at talke silverdale and north stoke as a privateer

😊 well done

Brilliant presenter and great video.

i remember going to see Jaws at the picture when it was first released i went there with my best friend at the time Peter Lord. I haven't seen Peter in almost 40 years fair play to you for showing thiz video. It's a pity the picture house is due to be demolished very soon. I had sone great Saturday afternoons in the saturday mattinee

15:24 I can recall the bridge crossing the road. The Army demolished it one weekend for training purposes , that would be about 1966. As for the Rookhope Arch, I'm sure there were more than one still standing in the 60's. Before that high tensile wire fence was put up at the roadside we used to picnic by the rivers edge and I recall collecting fist sized lumps of flourspar that lay about all over in the gravels.

Is that dean lane?

Wonderful thanks Clive

So, I was brought up on the Melrose Avenue area in the early 1960's. One place I remember my mum taking me and a load of local kids one day was a place we called the sheep dip. Yesterday, thinking that was over 60 years ago, I thought I'd try and find it. I started down Olde Back Lane, opposite the end of Coal Clough Lane and followed the track which I pretty much remember and eventually, past a farm down to New Barn Clough, near a footbridge. Although I don't recall as many trees, that was what we called the sheep dip our play and picnic spot. Here is the other thing, just near the footbridge I spotted a thick steel cable coming out of the ground - puzzling. The thing is, in the early 60's my dad used to take me to pick coal from somewhere around there, or at least in that general direction. Hard to believe these days but I went with him regularly. Surely, anywhere to pick coal must have been miles from there? Yesterday's little trip has got me really interested in the area and feel I must go back again and explore.

Thanks Clive, we had a fantastic day when we met up here. Truly one of our best videos to date. Thank you so much for inviting us and this video is absolutely beautiful the way you have put the scenes to the music ❤️🙌🏼

Thanks Clive. I used to make and repair those Mastabar lacing machines in Accrington.

I've been there at that confluence of the irwell and limey water loads of times and I bet no-one else has seen what I once saw happen there a few years ago, where one river was heavily swollen and not the other, and then later on the swelling changed over so the other river was swollen as the first swelling dropped, how about that?! And don't anyone waste their time disputing it, I was there and I saw it!

I just subbed to your channel after coming across this vid, looking forward to binge watching more! Enjoyed this video, been to the pit a few times as I am relatively local. Keep up the good work .🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

My late husband worked at Blidworth and Gedling collieries in the 1970s-1982 he was a miner but a few yrs later he became a shift boss, he always told me he had to work in around 2 ft on his side on the seam during his shift, was this true, I told him no one could work in that size place, he offered to take me down, but I said no (I’m a bit claustrophobic, ) would be nice to know tho. My father was a miner at Bentink collerery in his later years at rufford he told me he was the button man, what ever that jib entailed he didn’t elaborate

Can anyone tell me what Rossendale pit or pits that the cornish miners came up to in 1872-3 They were predominately recruited from Liskeard and about 400 copper and tin miners arrived . My great grandfather was one of them and did not know he was breaking the big strike of 1872-73. They were originally housed near where the Griffin Inn was.

Burnley was built on coal and still was huge cold reserves. If in the future cold can somehow be made clean again then Burnley could have a very good return to economic success with all the jobs and prosperity sadly lacking today.

Mam's stepdad Tommy Iley was a member of the rescue team at William, he was a deputy at Solway and usually spent Tuesday (?) evenings training at Windscale rescue centre at Hunday manor.

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im a photographer and would like to know were this bridge is with the white rocks and water umerneath

Av you tried lidar map of the area where you are looking for the old shaft? That could show something

Ay up Clive!! haha I can't believe I've accidentally stumbled upon your channel! Reet up my street! You gave my first fossils when I was about 7 or 8 (unfortunately I don't have any more) but it definitely sparked my interest for anything dug out the ground 😊 so thanks for that. I think you'll remember me, our family had so many fond time with you. Much love Miriam(Jane's daughter) xxx

brings back memories picture house temperance bar I worked at smith and nephews cotton mill cloughfold keep em coming

Riding the Panza was a no no, any missing inspection panels and both ya feet are taken off. The was one film where a feller lost his head sticking it out of the man rider. We did our training at Seaham colliery in Durham. Nicknamed the knack.

These videos are reet belters. As a fellow Lancastrian from Chorley, son of a collier who worked at Welch Whittle, Ellerbeck and Chisnall Hall they are fascinating. Also I'm in Alston most weekends and know Barhaugh and Slaggyford really well. Keep up the brilliant work and enjoy the Red Kites around Slaggyford.

Very hard times, especially for children, I lost great grandfather to a mill accident death in US….you do excellent work…learned much. Thanks.

Yeh Spen closes prob Oct..I should know as I'm on the committee. It's a fantastic little museum. not very big admittedly, but loads of stuff to linger over. Nice cafe and great to complete the day over the Pendle villages

Is the coal museum still open ive driven past the sign loads of times..

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

Just joined you fantastic channel as i live in great Harwood .. ive only lived her 18 years but im amazed the amount of coal mining thats went on around here.. looking around now you wouldn't have a clue it was here.. theres a old pit near great Harwood golf club theres some old buildings there .. might make a good video for you..

Love the background music. Who's it by?

Great video. On the Lidar it looked like the ridge and furrow in the fields respect the shafts - do you reckon farmers would plough up to and around them, or were the shafts sunk through the old ridge and furrow? It was a bit hard to tell from the image. Might help with dating.

I never knew there was underground mine workings in Rossendale, I know there was lots of old quarries with lots of railway lines up in the hills, some of which were narrow gauge, but they're all gone now, but the millgate incline is still there at Facit, also known as Halfway. And shouldn't such old tunnels be securely blocked off to stop kids getting themselves trapped down there? After all no-one would know where they were.

Always carry a spare torch when exploring places like this.

Looks like a lot of miners who worked down there must've ended up with serious backache after having to keep bending over so much in those tiny tunnels.

I got an old miners lamp cleaned it up and got it up and running . Upon c

Really interesting my great great grandfather came from near Liskeard Cornwall he was a tin miner on the promise of work in Burnley in 1872 I think. I read a book called the History of Burnley by Bennett. The Cornish and Devon men never knew they were brought in to break a strike but having burnt their bridges could not easily go home. Have you any more information outside of what is contained in this book to assist me tracing my family history. It looks like Burnley in 1872-73 was close to shut 31:04 down by industrial action. The Cotton Mills were running out of coal and some had to go on short time working. I believe my family would have lived somewhere near where Burnley cemetery is now on Rossendale Road. Was it haptin colliery that these outsiders came to work. My great great grandfather left mining after a few years and worked in a cotton mill marrying a Burnley girl. Any snippets of info would be of great interest to me.

well done again clive.you must be as fit as a butchers dog.

Excellent Clive... Very interesting wi some cracking ol Pico's o Yer Father n a nice day for Ya to be wearing out Shoe Leather... Nah then Clivester... Baxenden Collieries had a Brickworks n'al n probably part o the Cokeworks... I have a Brick that's stamped Baxenden Colliery Accrington n I'm ead to believe as rare as Hens Teeth... Someone may know where there's loads o em but I spent a day Mooching about many Year's ago lookin for some but never fon any... Look forward to the next instalment o this tale... 😃😎😉👍👍👍✌️👌🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

More changes than dynasty 😂made me laugh that Clive. Great video 👍🏻

Brew in hand Clive and kicking back watching this on the big screen 😊🎥☕️

Back in the mid to late 70s Rooley was a regular motorbike trials venue. I used to go up to watch competitions quite often!

Thanks for researching this Clive, very interesting information, you are a great mining historian, ps my old pal Brian marcon, remembers you from whitewood tech Castleford doing your deputies papers 😊

Hey Clive was there any coal mines in Colne east Lancashire, because im sure years ago I went on a motorbike ride and im sure we went from Kirkby Lonsdale (devil's bridge) through Colne and if my memory is still ok we went down a road i think was coal pit lane 😊