The Remains of Bolsover Coalite Explore
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The remains of Bolsover Coalite
Following on from a recent walk & explore of the disused railway between Seymour Junction & Bolsover, i returned to have a look a few weeks later at new developments and also a brief explore around some of the remains of Bolsover Coalite.
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I've worked on the site for the last 6 or so years as environmental engineer. Good luck getting the odour out haha. Other than the smell it was a fascinating site to wander around. Despite its history it wasn't that contaminated once the above ground structures were removed. The Doe Lea River aswell has pretty much recovered from its past of being the most contaminated river in Europe.
Thank you for recording this, really interesting, I moved to this area fairly recently and wondered about the history of this place. You’ve provided some fantastic insights.
Thanks so much for watching. Glad you enjoyed it
Please read my comments above.
Johnny Wright and, also Jenny Hibberd, from Bowsa, back in the NS Daze...... Etc..
I did enjoy that. Such a shame a place that was bustling with people being reduced to that. Thanks for taking me along
I'm not local to the area but used to love the smell when passing on the M1.The by-product of the Coalite was creosote , obviously that which remains on the ground.Its gonna take a heck of a lot of cleaning up.
Wow, interesting video Ant. I’m glad I explored it in the summer when I had chance!
Yea i never expected them to be where they were. I thought they were working the area i ended up exploring. So worked out a treat
If you look on Bolsover District Councils web site you’ll find the master plan for that area. I hope they protect the route of the railway as it could be a good connection from the Clowne greenway through to the Stockley trail and back up to Shirebrook to make a circular route.
It took several years to clean up the coalite site at Wingerworth Chesterfield and although it is now open to the public there are a few small areas that remain contaminated annd suitably marked with piles of white painted boulders.
Amazing to think the site began with two small pits, just before Birdholme, where twas latterly flooded, as an enterprise at the garden bottom of Hunloke Hall....
Very much as was the situation with the Sutton Scarsdale Estate and the development of what was Arkwright pit (on th'road to Bolser).
Bit handy you did the previous vid?!!! Hopefuly they're doing an environmental clean up, it certainly looks like it needs it.
Yes it's worked out well. I wasn't going to put it on for a few weeks but thought it's best suited right after the previous one
Enjoyed this. Great place to paint
Thank you! Cheers!
@@TrekkingExploration You have also been very close to me on welbeck colliery, The bridges you visited are now owned and fenced off
@@RedZu1 yes it's all been sold hasn't it
I remember when it was operational it a shall we say unique smell, somtimes when I drive past especially after its been raining I can still smell the place.
Yes i really had to get away from it as soon as possible 😝
There was an explosion of some sort down there 1970's-80's & there was a massive Dioxin release. I heard that a lot of contaminated steelwork was cut up & thrown down the derelict Morton Colliery shaft & buried! The River Doe Lea alongside was for many years afterwards, the most polluted in the country because of the Dioxin levels. There's some bad stuff down there - I'd keep well away.
remember going there in the early 70,s when just a lad with my dads mate who drove an 8 wheeler coal tipper,it was huge then and the locals used to come out and shovel up the coal that fell of the top of the lorries when they went round the corners outside the works,when coal was king.
An absolute ghost of a once mighty unstoppable empire
It is a shame that the owners of this property do not keep up with it. The pollution aspect must be overwhelming. As always, thanks for the walking tour and chat. Cheers buddy.
I'm an environmental engineer from the recent development, other than the odour the contamination isn't that bad considering.
since i went the sites no longer as it was they removed everything backfilled the bridge & filled in the holes where the conveyer once sat it seems that every place i visted around the yorkshire & nottinghamshire areas got demolished shortly after 2 places ive visited but have no idea if they are stillstanding which are the wagonworks in chesterfield & loxley brick & tile works sheffield
Well documented! Thanks for that. I've been there loads of times with camera and place is slowly disappearing. On one end decontamination peoples on other scrap man (i guess), as loads of thick metal elements seems to be dismentaled. Everyday i'm passing this place on M1 and when is moisty (for example at morning) all area, half dozen miles smells like that black gunge waste. Really anoying for locals. I think when demolition start they didn't realise how much ground is poluted.
They know how much pollution there is. Over 30 years ago I assisted a Scientist doing a survey of the old tip at Markham Colliery which is at the top of Buttermilk Lane. I set out a grid for him to take soil samplesand then plotted them on a plan for him. He came back and we did a second survey with him. He told me he was testing the dioxin level in the soil. We were never privy to the results.
All this stuff is probably mixing and reacting down there 😩
Thanks Dawid 😀👍
The smell is nothing like it was when it was operating. Doesn't bother me though, i love the smell 😂
You should come and do another its changed so much
Much left to see?
@@TrekkingExploration yes there building factorys there now
My uncle Fred worked at Bolsover ( or Boza) as he called it ) pit and we often passed the Coalite plant on the way to see them. This place used to stink, even from the motorway and i believe they even were prosecuted at some point for breaking pollution regs.
Yes you are correct. The run off from the Markham Colliery slag heap down Buttermilk Lane looked yellow brown in colour, was fast flowing, and stunk to high heaven. I can remember noting this to my dad in the early 1970's as we passed down Buttermilk Lane on the way to the tanker park where he worked from. His comment? 'Don't know what yer complaining about. That stink has brought us plenty of pay packets.' Well it might have done that, but it did nothing for the ecology of the Doe Lea River, and as you quite rightly note Coalite was later fined for industrial contamination. In fact today I would love to see someone take samples of sediment from the Doe Lea to see just how much dioxin leached out from the Markham Colliery slag heap. Nobody has probably done that because of the implications of dioxin in that it does not degrade with time, and the associated heavy clean up costs. Who exactly would pay for the clean up?
The Markham Colliery slag heap had been scooped out on top, and before the refinery came on line this is where all the residue from the coking batteries that would normally pass into the refinery were dumped. Later after the 1968 refinery explosion the dioxin contaminated metal structure of the old refinery was dragged up the tip and dumped in it and buried. A World in Action report on dioxin actually showed the wreckage being hauled up the slag heap side to be dumped in the top. Coalite were manufacturing agent orange used in Vietnam as a defoliating agent, and this contained dioxin.
There used to be regular evacuations at the plant too for various gas escapes. In particular there were many chlorine gas escapes. My mother worked at the cafeteria for a time on the site and told me of this.
Some interesting graffiti around that place, quite artistic, I'm not a big fan of the tacky daubed names or tags but when it's done tastefully I think it adds something to a derelict area. 👍😎
Edit- That black tar stuff looks fairly dangerous especially if it was giving off strong fumes. It look as though some of those tanks have been storing it and they are now leaking⚠️ Very worrying, this stuff eventually gets into our water at some point! 😯😕⚠️
Hopefully they're going to clean it up?
I certainly hope they do. I didn't stay very long at all Ha ha! I've Noticed the same graffiti at a number of locations now.
@@TrekkingExploration Maybe an as yet undiscovered Banksy? 😁😯
I think they were prosecuted at some point for emissions as it always stunk around the plant when it was working. Derby had a gas plant thats now under the shopping centre at Raynesway. They had to build an underground wall to stop the spread of pollutants from the old gas plants.
I remember the Coalite new refinery as I visited it a number of times as a boy. The black stuff looks like heavy tar residue. Coalite used to have a lagged and heated storage tank in which it was stored, being circulated by a rotating turbine pump to keep it fluid. One day me and my father were at the refinery. I was not supposed to be there but I was as I was accompanying my father on a cab trip to Boston. My dad was a tanker driver for Coalite, generally transporting around 30,000 gallons of cresylic acid a go, and we had gone to load up. As I recall there was an almighty bang, and the top casing of the rotating turbine pump blew off. The pump continued running throwing hot pitch black tar high into the air and right over the other side of the refinery. Luckily there was nobody in the area that the tar was landing, but it was all around the pump area too. I lay low in the cab while the action was over, as instructed. The operators closed the pump down, and closed the tank valves and the drama was over. Of course by that time a few gallons of hot tar had flown, and that is possibly where some of that tar came from.
I worked on this about a year ago, DSL were the contractors and I maintained all their tyres on those earthmovers and dumpers, they kindly let me have a wander round with my dslr so I could photograph the graffiti on the remaining buildings that were due to be demolished a few weeks later, that graffiti was something else, it was a shame to see it go
Probably soon to be a housing estate. Amazing what gets left behind
There were a couple other buildings surrounded by that black death gunge, one false move I'd have desolved quicker than lard in a pan
@@TrekkingExploration or they could be cleaning up the area before development
It needs doing urgently. I got out of there ASAP
hope it wasn't TOO smelly. thanks for the video.
I won't ever be going back 😂
I worked there for 30 years.
We used to supply 8 x 50kg swarfega regularly ..also buttermilk soap tablets to the offices on.....Buttermilk Lane
A real shame places are left in this state,so sad to see it like it,🤔
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Sadly to say bolsover coalition has been demolished been yesterday
I'm surprised the remains lasted so Iong. Glad I popped in when I did
where is it
Behind Bolsover Household Waste Recycling Centre off the B6418
that needs cleaning properly...what a disgrace
I noticed some graffiti near the end of the video and I have seen that same style of graffiti in multiple abandoned places around this area.
It looked identical to that found at Firbeck Colliery
Artist name is Coloquix, he's got page on FB. I am convinced he's from Sheffield.
@@dawidkucinski5214 it's very interesting stuff he sure gets around
@@TrekkingExploration it was the graffiti the camera is pointing straight at 5:16/7:10 i was on about.
@@Rollingforwards the pink worm thing?
You might like to see the pictures at www.28dayslater.co.uk/threads/coalite-bolsover-oct-2019.120610/
As you say, a blot on the environment. Doesn't anyone take responsibility for leaving a site like that? It's a bit like an eaten orange; someone has eaten all the goodness but left the pith
And it’s all gone but how many people will now be burning smokeless coal now gas gone through the roof