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Post by Squirrel on Feb 28, 2005 6:11:27 GMT -5
G , Day Can some one please tell me when the Netherseal Mine closed in South Derbyshire ?. I know when the shafts were sunk I know it was a very big mine in its heyday and I know it had problems with flooding . Am I right in thinking it was abandoned and if so was any thing recovered?. Regards Squirrel  |
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Post by dazb on Mar 19, 2005 14:24:53 GMT -5
Netherseal closed in 1947 (under a possible cloud of suspicious motives!!!!!!!!!!!!). More intrigue and detail to follow..............
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Post by dazb on Mar 22, 2005 6:09:47 GMT -5
The following is a quote from a friend who also supplied the date of Netherseal's closure, I waited until I had received his permission to forward this;
"Netherseal Colliery; The story goes that a face was set up to run parallel with a fault and they stripped the coal right up to the leather bed (the material that is on the fault line). In this area of the coal field there is a band of strata called the Red Measures which is a band of water bearing red marl which can be up to 400ft thick. What the colliery did not know or maybe chose to ignore was that the fault they were working next to had displaced the red measures to be level with the coal seam on the other side of the fault hence the water broke into the working. I also heard people say the pit was not making a profit hence speculation that it was not an accident."
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