Somerset coal fields "Vobster Area"

This video is the first of a series on the Somerset Coalfields, part 1 see us visiting the Vobster area, after filming and walking the Somerset coal canal and then fussells Iron works in Mells it seem a great idea to document the collieries dotted around the Somerset Area and Vobster is the perfect starting point as we follow the old Bristol and Somerset Railway Line.
• Somerset Coal Canal Somerset Coal Canal
• Fussell's Iron Works 2018 fussells iron works
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[@Denjwj]

Hi Ian, thanks for a very interesting video, and I look forward to the next!

[@38below39]

Thanks for sharing ( very interesting ) I'm watching from Canada

[@terryengland1880]

Great video on a great part of Somerset,

[@koffibanan3099]

Thanks Ian, found this when I was looking for more info about the somerset coal canal. Incredible how quickly nature reclaims these sites! Crazy to think about the countless hours people have spent there, going under.

[@lorrainemerry8661]

Same here

[@michaellange3248]

This is cool to see, I live just up the hill in liegh-on-Mendip and cross that bridge you showed every day. It’s cool to see local history

[@Towpathtraveller1693]

Thanks so much history hidden away

[@lorrainemerry8661]

Love your video. I've subscribed. Look forward to watching more.

[@KempSimon]

It must be a bit like what happened to all the Romano-British villas dotted around the countryside fifty to a hundred years after the Legions were recalled to defend Rome in 409 AD ... crumbling, decaying walls overgrown with vegetation! Thanks for posting this amazing video clip of a part of the former Somerset Coalfield which I never got to explore during my time in Bath!

[@nickboyce3634]

Very interesting video , my grandfather worked at Mackintosh Colliery before being called up for active service in WW1 , he is marked on the 1911 census as a horse keeper underground . I have visited what is left of the colliery , which is sadly very little .

[@Towpathtraveller1693]

Thanks, the vorster area is an amazing place to find things, the only colliery with an information board I've come across so far is camerton old , it would be nice if information boards were in place at other collieries, but the sad thing is in these modern times someone would destroy them. Stay safe

[@davidjessep1786]

Can you tell me what app you are using to highlight the historic sites. Is it based on google maps. I’m very interested in industrial history and am a member of the Somersetshire Coal Canal Society

[@davidjessep1786]

It’s the overlay I’m looking for

[@Towpathtraveller1693]

Hi David, here is the link maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=5&lat=56.00000&lon=-4.00000&layers=1&right=BingHyb

[@Towpathtraveller1693]

You can do it side by side or one map and fade in and out old to new

[@Sharron-Idol]

PLEASE stop using the word "obviously" unnecessarily in almost every other sentence!

[@Towpathtraveller1693]

I'm ever so sorry, a bad habit and being nervous I will try harder, thanks for watching

[@alanrogers3241]

A Mate and I traced the Newbury line and we were puzzled, the line was level with the field but there were banks either side, like a cutting. Why would they do that? Well the rails were laid in the bed of the abortive Dorset & Somerset canal, a bit further on there were locks, not as we know them but they were balance locks invented and demonstrated by Mr Fussell. The pits can still be seen, see
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balance_lock