I live near to many of the sites you explore in your videos and it's so fascinating to see what's just underneath our feet! Thank you for taking us on these explorations!
We used to visit Perranporth in the 1950 and stay with my uncles at St. Georges Terrance up by the air field ,we used to pick up brass shell cases on the airfield and sell them there where loads of them now i wish i kept some as souvenirs
Ha I bet there’s a few still kicking around up there! There’s a few interesting areas and pits out by the cliffs where they dumped a lot of stuff. I bet they threw some interesting bits away years ago for sure.
Great vid Ben loving the WW2 angle. Would love to see more like this. Imagine if you did find a Willys Jeep or Spitfire engine down a shaft somewhere! Like you say though, could well be entering some awfully toxic environments.
Cheers it would be awesome if it was true ! Apparently up at turnaware there was a quarry working in behind there they filled with d day leftovers ! Well buried up now though ☹️ might be a few more bits we find along the way !
Cheers Mark . It’s in a very difficult location to get too which will keep it away from most unless you are very determined ! There must be more shafts in the area with wartime dumps ?
@@BenoCam we won't be venturing in there mate I've got a good idea where it is but it's probably best kept under wraps but I'm pretty sure there's going to be more world war II tips like this m8
The Forest Of Dean was a staging area and there are capped dumps.Stories of cavers getting in but equipment was thrown in,not neatly packed,so salvaging anything is virtually impossible.
Great video Ben, having viewed a number of your other mining videos, is there a way you and I can talk about potentially meeting up for a visit to the area? Vice Chair Shropshire Caving & Mining Club
That's some really high density fiber wood, because i was watching as the lady was passing and against a dark point and there was barely any deflection. Now, she's likely light as a feather, but still. Good bit of timber there. It's incredible how weird environments keep wood like that. We were restoring a 1914 house and the basement's lintels (portal and the "expansion" portals) were basically intact, despite some dampness, some minor rot on the outer most part of the exposed wood. Up top, everything was rotten through, with fractures in the walls as a result. We just stabilized the surface of the wood and let it be, good solid wood.
I wish that some of the old mines and Pitt’s of Telford could be explored. The old Granville colliery would be amazing. Closed innthe 70s apparently a guy I knew was the last guy out and he was told to shut the gas tight doors
Coal mines are pretty dangerous. Lots of bad gases. Unlike Cornish metal mines which are normally pretty good although we still have to be careful. But nothing compared to a coal mine. That’s why they always seal them up so well.
Where I used to work at RAF St Eval when it was 81 Signals Unit Transmitters West in the mid 90s I heard r rumours of old surplus kit buried down near the end of the old main runway and as this was outside the perimeter fence, the area in question belonged to a nearby farm. I went exploring one day during lunchtime and was in my RAF Uniform so stood out a bit and this farmer had a bit of a pop at me asking why I was in “his land”. Foolishly I mentioned that there was a rumour of buried Merlin’s. A few weeks late the bastard dragged away all of the undergrowth covering the area behind the dispersal and there were some bloody big holes in the ground where I reckon he struck maybe a few old Merlin’s possibly in packing. Crates in oiled rags and probably sold for scrap. I didn’t see the dig as I was a way, anyway looking through the scraped out soil I retrieved 6 Merlin engine exhaust pods, an instrument panel, rudder pedal and an aileron trim tab of a Lanc of which there were many when the station transitioned to Shackleton before it closed in 59. I also saw a pit full of old RAF push bikes … so proof that stuff got buried and if there was a mineshaft near by then probably was full of kit. I’ll bet the shaaaaaaffffft, lol at Sallys bottom around the back of RAF Portreath might have some nasties chucked down her during the days of Chemical days when it was Nancekuke …. Used to loce saying to the lads I’ve been up Sallys Bottom during a drive around the peri track when I worked there too.
There are 2 mineshafts here here me in Muxton telford. Nearby is MOD Donnington and there used to be a railway spur to the 2 disused shafts of Muxton Colliery. It’s alleged that surplus MOD a stock was tipped down the now sealed shafts
Very interesting..what are those strange stalactites seen at 10:07? Years ago, (due to a big increase in the price of tin) there was talk of restarting tin mining in Cornwall-is this still under consideration?
We are not sure what the white things are.. must be stuff they have thrown in further up the shaft, maybe bags of lime or chemicals etc. They often talk about restarting the mines but they have changed owners a few times and they seem to get some funding or try and get funding but nothing ever happens . It doesn’t help that they have now sold all the ground around it off for commercial industrial estates or housing !!
Nerves of steel, you and the lady, venturing into what is obviously now a contaminated dump due to previous haphazard waste disposal. Plus, walking that long single plank!! Daring!! You two had some good Back’n forth banter… Such as her suggesting you chuck the ladder over the cliff. And then you offering those buckets for the garden, and she saying if you’d carry them out! Too funny! I’d say you’d need a Tetanus-shot if you had suffered a scrape or cut back in those polluted workings with all that rusted metal.
Glad you enjoyed it. It was a fun one that which ended up taking days and days to film as I had to go back a couple of times. Yes Nat is a good laugh to explore with and usually comes out with something entertaining on the way! Hopefully get down and film some more soon. Nat has a history of taking things she finds down mines home for the garden 🤣
I remember talking to an old boy in Cornwall who said at the end of the war he was tasked with dumping dispatch bikes down an open mine. They started them up, dumped the clutch and fired them down the shaft. He was allowed to keep two bikes and eventually (late 80s) restored one. No idea of where this was though sadly
10/04/2122 Interesting. I understand that around Ipswich Queensland in Oz they dumped RAAF F111 aircraft down coal mines as aircraft capable of carrying nukes were banned/limited under some treaty or another. Not that we ever had nuclear weapons.
there is a rumour about some motor bikes being dumped down a shaft at Rose wall hill st.ives ( consolidated mines ) by commando`s stationed near st.ives , i would love to find out
I don't know where the image at 1:48 was taken, somewhere in the Mediterranean? Sicily? Italy? But it's definitely not D-Day in Normandy to which you refer. Why do creators make such silly, irritating, mistakes?
Well because first of all, your the first person out of 18,000 viewers to notice, and secondly when you google images of D day that image comes up as one, even though you are right it looks too hot and sunny. Most importantly it’s hard to find a decent picture of D day landing with someone wearing a type of helmet the same as what we find in the mine. They were too busy running up the beach to stop and take photos.
@@BenoCam yeah I knew they developed sarin at nancekuke, and talked about remediating the site but decided against it in the end. Very interesting what they threw away... Wouldn't get away with that nowadays.
Out of sight out of mind ! There’s a few adits below raf portreath that are bricked up with pipes to let the water out ... probably for good reason ! I wouldn’t want to drink that water !!!
Out of sight out of mind ! There’s a few adits below raf portreath that are bricked up with pipes to let the water out ... probably for good reason ! I wouldn’t want to drink that water !!!
@@BenoCam I think they 'cleaned up' the site in the 90s but on one really knows what they did or didn't find there. There have always been rumours about ww2 relics being thrown down a pit there but people may have been confusing it with where you were in this video. Great video as always Ben.
I live near to many of the sites you explore in your videos and it's so fascinating to see what's just underneath our feet! Thank you for taking us on these explorations!
We used to visit Perranporth in the 1950 and stay with my uncles at St. Georges Terrance up by the air field ,we used to pick up brass shell cases on the airfield and sell them there where loads of them now i wish i kept some as souvenirs
Ha I bet there’s a few still kicking around up there! There’s a few interesting areas and pits out by the cliffs where they dumped a lot of stuff. I bet they threw some interesting bits away years ago for sure.
Those "straws" coming down from the cap are very fast growing. I never saw any longer than about 6ft when I was caving.
That’s because you don’t tend to get dumped chemical weapons ingredients thrown down above you while in a cave 🤣🤣🤣
Fabulous video and again really interesting. You must have nerves of steel. The North Cornish coast truly is stunning though. Thank you for sharing.
Would have been worth getting a sample of the discharge from whatever was dumped down there! Fascinating… you guys are so brave!!!
imagine finding barrels marked 'porton down'
Probably is somewhere ! Especially down at portreath/nancequke…. Done another video on that !
So glad I found this channel. Great content !
We have similar stories here in the Forest of Dean. Mineshafts supposedly full of jeeps
Great vid Ben loving the WW2 angle. Would love to see more like this. Imagine if you did find a Willys Jeep or Spitfire engine down a shaft somewhere! Like you say though, could well be entering some awfully toxic environments.
Cheers it would be awesome if it was true ! Apparently up at turnaware there was a quarry working in behind there they filled with d day leftovers ! Well buried up now though ☹️ might be a few more bits we find along the way !
Another fantastic video ben and we've been working on top the airfield to look at some old WWII buildings that are forgotten about
Cheers Mark . It’s in a very difficult location to get too which will keep it away from most unless you are very determined ! There must be more shafts in the area with wartime dumps ?
@@BenoCam we won't be venturing in there mate I've got a good idea where it is but it's probably best kept under wraps but I'm pretty sure there's going to be more world war II tips like this m8
The Forest Of Dean was a staging area and there are capped dumps.Stories of cavers getting in but equipment was thrown in,not neatly packed,so salvaging anything is virtually impossible.
Seems to be stories like this up and down the country ! Must be some truth in some of them !
Have you ever thought about diving the slate quarry on the camel trail. The store is when the Americans left they dumped loads of stuff in.
Ooo not heard about this one but do have diving kit ! Which one ? 😍
Great video Ben, having viewed a number of your other mining videos, is there a way you and I can talk about potentially meeting up for a visit to the area?
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Shropshire Caving & Mining Club
Yep no problem. Look me up on Facebook I have a Ben o cam page or find my private one , Ben Dunstan. 👍
Ben you make me laugh can imagine seeing you all trudging along with that ladder.
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That's some really high density fiber wood, because i was watching as the lady was passing and against a dark point and there was barely any deflection. Now, she's likely light as a feather, but still. Good bit of timber there. It's incredible how weird environments keep wood like that. We were restoring a 1914 house and the basement's lintels (portal and the "expansion" portals) were basically intact, despite some dampness, some minor rot on the outer most part of the exposed wood. Up top, everything was rotten through, with fractures in the walls as a result. We just stabilized the surface of the wood and let it be, good solid wood.
That’s a lot of wood input ! It seemed quite strong and there is water underneath. Luckily we can all swim ! 🤣
the lappa spa valley railway mine was used for training during ww2, theres bullet holes in the chimney
😮 wonder if there is anything dumped in the shafts there ! From memory there is quite a high water table there though ... 😬
I wish that some of the old mines and Pitt’s of Telford could be explored. The old Granville colliery would be amazing. Closed innthe 70s apparently a guy I knew was the last guy out and he was told to shut the gas tight doors
Coal mines are pretty dangerous. Lots of bad gases. Unlike Cornish metal mines which are normally pretty good although we still have to be careful. But nothing compared to a coal mine. That’s why they always seal them up so well.
Great explore and s nice bit of history. The tin lid was a nice find :)
Where I used to work at RAF St Eval when it was 81 Signals Unit Transmitters West in the mid 90s I heard r rumours of old surplus kit buried down near the end of the old main runway and as this was outside the perimeter fence, the area in question belonged to a nearby farm. I went exploring one day during lunchtime and was in my RAF Uniform so stood out a bit and this farmer had a bit of a pop at me asking why I was in “his land”. Foolishly I mentioned that there was a rumour of buried Merlin’s. A few weeks late the bastard dragged away all of the undergrowth covering the area behind the dispersal and there were some bloody big holes in the ground where I reckon he struck maybe a few old Merlin’s possibly in packing. Crates in oiled rags and probably sold for scrap.
I didn’t see the dig as I was a way, anyway looking through the scraped out soil I retrieved 6 Merlin engine exhaust pods, an instrument panel, rudder pedal and an aileron trim tab of a Lanc of which there were many when the station transitioned to Shackleton before it closed in 59. I also saw a pit full of old RAF push bikes … so proof that stuff got buried and if there was a mineshaft near by then probably was full of kit.
I’ll bet the shaaaaaaffffft, lol at Sallys bottom around the back of RAF Portreath might have some nasties chucked down her during the days of Chemical days when it was Nancekuke …. Used to loce saying to the lads I’ve been up Sallys Bottom during a drive around the peri track when I worked there too.
That’s awesome . Some story ! Love to hear when things actually are true. All these stories are based on some truth !
There are 2 mineshafts here here me in Muxton telford. Nearby is MOD Donnington and there used to be a railway spur to the 2 disused shafts of Muxton Colliery. It’s alleged that surplus MOD a stock was tipped down the now sealed shafts
Iv seen the one by Perranporth at 3.59 in the video that's a very deep one. I tryed to get down but it was too dangerous at the time.
That is a fantastic cliff top view...
I was secretly hoping you'd find an intact tank, or a nuclear bomb or something.
Ooo so was I !! Maybe on the next one ? 😅
Very interesting..what are those strange stalactites seen at 10:07? Years ago, (due to a big increase in the price of tin) there was talk of restarting tin mining in Cornwall-is this still under consideration?
We are not sure what the white things are.. must be stuff they have thrown in further up the shaft, maybe bags of lime or chemicals etc.
They often talk about restarting the mines but they have changed owners a few times and they seem to get some funding or try and get funding but nothing ever happens . It doesn’t help that they have now sold all the ground around it off for commercial industrial estates or housing !!
Nerves of steel, you and the lady, venturing into what is obviously now a contaminated dump due to previous haphazard waste disposal. Plus, walking that long single plank!! Daring!! You two had some good Back’n forth banter…
Such as her suggesting you chuck the ladder over the cliff. And then you offering those buckets for the garden, and she saying if you’d carry them out! Too funny! I’d say you’d need a Tetanus-shot if you had suffered a scrape or cut back in those polluted workings with all that rusted metal.
Glad you enjoyed it. It was a fun one that which ended up taking days and days to film as I had to go back a couple of times. Yes Nat is a good laugh to explore with and usually comes out with something entertaining on the way!
Hopefully get down and film some more soon. Nat has a history of taking things she finds down mines home for the garden 🤣
I remember talking to an old boy in Cornwall who said at the end of the war he was tasked with dumping dispatch bikes down an open mine. They started them up, dumped the clutch and fired them down the shaft. He was allowed to keep two bikes and eventually (late 80s) restored one. No idea of where this was though sadly
why would anyone do that? military are mad
It could be extremely dangerous to spend any time in this area. Proceeds to spend time in the area.
Don’t do as I do, do as I say 🤣
10/04/2122 Interesting. I understand that around Ipswich Queensland in Oz they dumped RAAF F111 aircraft down coal mines as aircraft capable of carrying nukes were banned/limited under some treaty or another. Not that we ever had nuclear weapons.
Not sure about them being dumped down mine shafts but they did put some under a landfill site, there's photo on the net somewhere if you search.
there is a rumour about some motor bikes being dumped down a shaft at Rose wall hill st.ives ( consolidated mines ) by commando`s stationed near st.ives , i would love to find out
Ha that would be cool. You do hear all sorts of stories of junk going down shafts, there has to be some truth behind at least some of it !
that plank cross was sketchy
Yeah it did flex a bit , but at least it was just water below !
Some of those shafts could have been used as latrines, so many troops in one are, hence chemicals used to prevent disease!
Superb
a quality piece of timber that.
I don't know where the image at 1:48 was taken, somewhere in the Mediterranean? Sicily? Italy? But it's definitely not D-Day in Normandy to which you refer. Why do creators make such silly, irritating, mistakes?
Well because first of all, your the first person out of 18,000 viewers to notice, and secondly when you google images of D day that image comes up as one, even though you are right it looks too hot and sunny. Most importantly it’s hard to find a decent picture of D day landing with someone wearing a type of helmet the same as what we find in the mine. They were too busy running up the beach to stop and take photos.
Holy fucking shit.
🤣 is that In a good way or bad way ? 🤣
@@BenoCam Definitely in a good way :) x
If one of those stalactites came down it would impale you 😢
It’s ok I had a helmet on 😂
Wasn't the old perranporth airfield the nancekuke chemical weapon facility during ww2?
No that was RAF portreath to the south... but that’s not to say that some bad things weren’t thrown down the shaft at perranporth also !!!
@@BenoCam yeah I knew they developed sarin at nancekuke, and talked about remediating the site but decided against it in the end. Very interesting what they threw away... Wouldn't get away with that nowadays.
Out of sight out of mind ! There’s a few adits below raf portreath that are bricked up with pipes to let the water out ... probably for good reason ! I wouldn’t want to drink that water !!!
Out of sight out of mind ! There’s a few adits below raf portreath that are bricked up with pipes to let the water out ... probably for good reason ! I wouldn’t want to drink that water !!!
@@BenoCam I think they 'cleaned up' the site in the 90s but on one really knows what they did or didn't find there.
There have always been rumours about ww2 relics being thrown down a pit there but people may have been confusing it with where you were in this video.
Great video as always Ben.
Please be extra careful for dangerous contamination. Back then no one worried about certain chemicals or materials that we now know are deadly.
We don’t worry now either 🤣🤣🤣