Firbeck Colliery Explore Abandoned Ruins
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In this video explore, we take a look around the site of Firbeck Colliery near Worksop, Nottinghamshire. Closed since 1968, it is very surprising how much still remains from this once busy colliery.
We discover bath hoses, winding houses, assorted buildings and even an engine shed!
Music from www.audionetwork.com & www.joshwoodward.com
#urbex #colliery #abandoned #firbeck Additional Music by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0.
www.scottbuckley.com.au
Wow !! What an incredible place. Loved the old pictures of it. great video
Morning mate. It's quite the gem. It just kept popping up with surprises. Glad you like it 👍 😀
well done mate, we industrial heritage lovers really appreciate your efforts, looks like it is forever gone now on google maps, but your tour around helped us see some of it's glory, the music when you entered 1 of the main buildings and bright light shining through was equivalent to entering any of the finest buildings, remember the 61 who lost their lives down Firbeck including the youngest, 15 year old Willis Chandler, crushed by the 'cage' on 15 Jan 1926. Not sure if we saw the boiler house but a father and son died in there in the same accident on 25 Nov 1940 along with another colleague ''burnt and scolded'.
There was many a sad time in these places it's ashame our mining has all disappeared. I enjoyed this one, I had to go twice 😀
Cheers matey 👍
These old industrial works are fascinating you can almost hear the people who worked and laughed their. Amazing it's just still standing thanks for taking us along
It was extremely haunting in that winding house especially. The loco shed was a real nice surprise
Hi Ant, excellent video of Firbeck colliery. I started watching your trekking six months ago. I’m now looking back at your earlier recorded treks. I don’t normally make any comments but this video has brought many memories back. My grandfather on my mothers side worked at this colliery during the 1939 / 1945 war, and my grandfathers sisters husband work all his working life at this colliery. I had many visits to Langold during the 50s and early 60s and remember the trains passing under the A60 to the pit as my Aunt and Uncle had a shop in Langold . I also remember the Galas at Langold lake which was an annual summer event.Firbeck colliery was the hub for the resident’s of Langold and Carlton in Lindrick. Many thanks for the memories. I’ve many more of your treks to watch.
Thank you for the tour today and chat. It’s a shame how these remains are destroyed. Cheers buddy! 🏴🙂👍🇺🇸
Thanks Martin. It's sadly been demolished now
Hi, just discovered your channel through Martin Zero. Really interesting, thanks for putting these videos up. All the best.
Hey thanks for stopping by 😀 Great to have you here 😀
Thanks Ant (& Joanne), it's always good to record these places before they disappear from our landscapes, keep up the good work
Hey Craig. I was blown away when I found that engine shed. Plus the shear size of the winding house.
Thank you Craig nice to be noticed 😁😁😁
Very interesting Ant,the size of the place is unbelievable, such a shame to be left in ruins,🤔
@@joanneford7300 How could I not notice that lovely figure =) =)
Love these old places. Very interesting keep em comin
Glad you enjoyed it, i'm always on the lookout for similar places :)
Another great video really enjoyed it good soundtrack use too worked well..nice to see a small overhead crane in the winding house ...keep up the great work Ant.... Frank & Lee...
This place was Great. I went back again with lighting a few weeks later to go in the darker areas
The two buildings on the video described as part of the bath house where the locker rooms (one for clean clothes one for mucky pit clothes) the showers where the bit in between the roof having long since collapsed. Great video I used to live pretty much next door to it!
I loved it in there I cannot believe how much is still standing and how long it's been abandoned. Thanks for watching and the information 😊
@@TrekkingExploration Just on a foot note if you'd have gone into the woods heading towards the skate park some of the old railway embankments are still there and a filled in bridge where the railway ran heading towards Harworth 😁
A good slice of history thank you 👏❤️😁x
Hopefully it'll still be standing for a while yet 😀
Also found your channel through Martin Zero. Great video. Look forward to watching the rest. Cheers
Morning Martin. Thanks for watching and following 😊
Way cool. Liked it a lot, what fun! Martin Zero brought me here. Hope to see more collabs soon. Maybe wirh the Whitewicks as well. Good job, great quality video, spot on!
Hi John thanks for dropping by, glad to have you here. Plans are afoot..... 😉
Fantastic!!!
Thank you for your kind comment 😀
Good stuff, the metal poking out of the ground that you saw I seem to remember working out on my visit a few years back they were part of the foundation for the headstocks.
Ohhh good point. Thanks for that. I hope it stays around for a while yet.
Just watched your video I’m a langold born and bred the first set of buildings were the pit baths and the water tower great video 👍👍
Cheers James glad you enjoyed it
@trekkingandtowpaths Great production, a very intriguing watch, the history of the place is fascinating and well presented by yourself. Already looking forward to your next video.
Good Morning. Its one of those rare hidden gems that will come by once in a blue moon 😀 I'm currently mid way through the Grantham Canal edit, so that'll be next or the one after 👍👍
@@TrekkingExploration I tell you mate, I'm really looking forward to seeing that. Had they completed the new lock near the 'Ruddy Duck' pub by the time of your visit?
We went two days before the opening ceremony. There are a couple of shots in there of s shiny new lock
Loving your work Martin z brought me. Not a graffiti fan but that kid is good with a rattle can.
Cheers fella 😎
Yeah that guy seems to have visited a few places I've been to
Nice one, glad you got there before another piece of our great mining heritage gets bulldozed into oblivion, pretty amazed it's still there. Knew you couldn't resist finding some railwaytrack!!!!
Morning Bob 😀 It had a bit of everything, it just kept popping up surprises. That engine shed! Amazing. Thanks for watching 😀
the whole lot is still there the only thing missing is the rapid loader, conveyer system, boilers house , chimney & both headgears so really you just walked onto a complete colliery site that's been abandoned since the 70's & has no grade listing at all yet its outlasted all the other ones that's only just closed
@@TrekkingExploration So what did spook Joanne, she seemed to get a bit of a shift on?!!!!!!!!!
I said she reminded me of a muppet running along like she did 😂 i got into trouble for that 🤣
Ant that was so interesting I am so glad I found your channel. The shit early on in the long building was great. Almost like a vertical structure not a horizontal one. Great! 👍
The two gauges at the shed was probably a transshipment shed from NG to standard. How hard work would that have been!?! It looked like there wasn’t much by way of machines to do the work there! The pit in the rails suggests an ash pit for steam locos. Begs the question did the coal come up from underground in wagons or another means? I’m intrigued and will have to research it a bit! Cheers I really am glad you went there and I love the presentation of your channel, the shots, the music, the chat to camera! 😁👍p.s. promise I won’t post as long as this as I think being new here I’m just a bit too stimulated! And it’s all not far from me in Sheffield! Great channel thanks!!! 😁👍👊
It should say”shot early on”! Oops! Sorry ! 😳
Ha ha ha ha ha ha i didn't see that the first time 🤣🤣🤣
Thanks for watching also. It was a remarkable find. Video explores like these won't come often, but when they do I'll give it a good go. Thanks for the kind comments 😀
Brilliant,Thanks for posting.did you see any evidence of the shaft cappings.
Wow its not often you see Oscar Wilde quoted by graffiti artists. Great video. I'm working my way through all of them better than "tele".
The site was still standing when me and my friend Geoff explored it not long before we was all told to stay home.
I think all the work or plans fell through again so it'll probably be around for a while 🙂
a bit late yo watching this video just wanted to ask where do you get the music from its so chilled out i like it keep up the good work
Some comes from a site called audio library, and the best part is most of it is also on Spotify too. A few come from audionetwork.com. We went back to Firbeck Colliery a few weeks ago to explore the dark area with lighting, and a couple of bits we missed 👍
Great video
Do you no if its still the same now or has it sadly gone?
It's still hanging in there, escaping another execution. It'll probably keep surviving somehow. Thanks for watching 🙂
Hi did you get any hassle from any security as it is looking interesting for some photography. Cheers great vlog
Hi Simon, never saw a sole except the council workers who chatted to us about the place 😀
@@TrekkingExploration cheers I'll give it a go.
Hi there As with all pits I would like to see the shaft tops after all they are the heart of the colliery. have you seen my Askern colliery pit site vid?
please try to wear a fpp3 mask seen asbestos on ceilings and might be disturbing dust. Great explore thou
Is that place back of Firbeck hall
Just a few minutes walk I think 👍
th-cam.com/video/9EABoCL0-bI/w-d-xo.html
Haha that’s my video on that link glad you liked it
It's been demolished today
Sad times. It was coming. I'm glad I got to see it and share it 🙂
the trackbed passes under the main road but no longer has a bridge it then curves left but goes thru private land also if drive thru langold & turn right at the traffic light it crosses that road too & you need to look left cos the only bit left of the bed at this point is a 200yard embankment in the middle of a field & if you look to the side of the road inline with this same embankment you also see where the bridge use to be, there is another bit of the bed that is accessable but often floods just before it connects to the harworth colliery line but the bad new here is none of the old firbeck colliery branch is walkable its all off limits
Yeah i noticed on Google maps that a lot of it is fields now
What about the capped shafts? Why didnt you go in search of them: the most significant and interesting part of any colliery? 😒🙄
I went to visit the buildings as that's what interests me.
@@TrekkingExploration Check out Dave Cherry, he specialises in locating capped shafts as thats often all thats left of the colliery.