Thanls for sharing , I hope the colliery will be preserved.. .We have to respect the miners memory and the future generations must knows the fascinating history of these great men..! Dan from Paris-France
Always remember visiting with my wife when it first became a museum very moving. In those days you could go down the pit in a cage I think they told us it was 700 feet level not much for a miner but we loved it. I hope it is preserved for the memory of all those brave men who fuelled this country and helped make it great all those years ago.
Thanks for this Brian - I took my down when it was a the 'proper' underground museum - she was scared - especially when I said this was where my grandad was killed!
I know the politics of why Chatterley was shut, in a word Wolstanton! Wolstanton mine was modernised in 1968, with two extended shafts on a horizon mine layout. The mine was handicapped by its workings being partially restricted, to the west, due to it being crown property. Shelton Bar rolling mill sterilised working to the east, and Stoken Trent's Council building "Unity House", the only high-rise building, sterilised a 5 square mile coal block at a subsidence support pillar. Wolstantons take was, in effect taken from< Snyed, Hanley Deep, Parkhouse and Chatterley. An underground roadway connecting Chatterley to Wolstanton was to shut Chatterley without allowing the workforce to relocate to any other mine. Once thirlled, Chatterley was shut.
Really sad that it hasn’t already been cleaned up and opened as a museum. Compared to other sites in the Midlands, like Clipstone in Nottinghamshire and Snibston in Leicestershire, which only have their pithead gear surviving, this is literally an entire complex that’s just been left to the weeds, there’s so much potential for this to be say the Midlands equivalent of the National Coal Mining Museum in Wakefield. Better it be saved and have it educate future generations on our important history, than let it fall to nature or the wrecking balls.
My dad was a miner at the nearby Victoria Colliery, when Maggie and McGregor shut it down he later went to work at Chatterley Museum. No toilets underground and definitely no bog-rolls ! Snappin was always halved, half wolfed down the other half chucked in a corner for the rats so the miners could eat in peace.
This would be a never ending money pit in order to restore, there is already preserved pits elsewhere in Britain 🇬🇧 that are open to members of the general in memory of miners.
Thanls for sharing , I hope the colliery will be preserved..
.We have to respect the miners memory and the future generations must knows the fascinating history of these great men..!
Dan from Paris-France
True
Always remember visiting with my wife when it first became a museum very moving. In those days you could go down the pit in a cage I think they told us it was 700 feet level not much for a miner but we loved it. I hope it is preserved for the memory of all those brave men who fuelled this country and helped make it great all those years ago.
Thanks for this Brian - I took my down when it was a the 'proper' underground museum - she was scared - especially when I said this was where my grandad was killed!
My father worked here as an overman 1955 to 1979. Many memories.
Well i for one loved every minute of it.
I really hope they are able to save it. It's is historically and culturally significant and beautiful in its own way.
A lot of people are trying!
I know the politics of why Chatterley was shut, in a word Wolstanton! Wolstanton mine was modernised in 1968, with two extended shafts on a horizon mine layout. The mine was handicapped by its workings being partially restricted, to the west, due to it being crown property. Shelton Bar rolling mill sterilised working to the east, and Stoken Trent's Council building "Unity House", the only high-rise building, sterilised a 5 square mile coal block at a subsidence support pillar. Wolstantons take was, in effect taken from< Snyed, Hanley Deep, Parkhouse and Chatterley.
An underground roadway connecting Chatterley to Wolstanton was to shut Chatterley without allowing the workforce to relocate to any other mine. Once thirlled, Chatterley was shut.
I usually enjoy such coal mine vedeo.i am a retired colliery veteran from india.
Enjoyed watching this. Thanks
Thanks
This is an Important part of our history
Really sad that it hasn’t already been cleaned up and opened as a museum.
Compared to other sites in the Midlands, like Clipstone in Nottinghamshire and Snibston in Leicestershire, which only have their pithead gear surviving, this is literally an entire complex that’s just been left to the weeds, there’s so much potential for this to be say the Midlands equivalent of the National Coal Mining Museum in Wakefield.
Better it be saved and have it educate future generations on our important history, than let it fall to nature or the wrecking balls.
It’s a scandal this has been allowed to crumble.
My dad was a miner at the nearby Victoria Colliery, when Maggie and McGregor shut it down he later went to work at Chatterley Museum. No toilets underground and definitely no bog-rolls ! Snappin was always halved, half wolfed down the other half chucked in a corner for the rats so the miners could eat in peace.
Is it still there?
Yes
@@GeoffOwen Do they still use it?
This would be a never ending money pit in order to restore, there is already preserved pits elsewhere in Britain 🇬🇧 that are open to members of the general in memory of miners.
This will never get restored, who’s going to pay for it, not the tax payer hopefully!!
It should be saved it was a great part of our history of coal mining ⛏️⛓️⚒️