first ever report. Clipstone headstocks

[stoney]

Clipstone Colliery is a coal mine situated near the village of the same name on the edge of an area of Nottinghamshire known as “The Dukeries” because of the number of stately homes in the area. The colliery was owned by the Bolsover Colliery Company and passed to the National Coal Board in 1947.

The colliery was sunk to exploit the Barnsley seam or “Tophard”, as it known locally. In the 1950s the shafts were deepened to over 1000 yards (920 m) to exploit other seams.
The colliery was closed by British Coal, as the National Coal Board had become, in 1993 and reopened by RJB Mining (now UK Coal) in April 1994, the licence to dig for coal being limited to the Yard seam which is located at a depth of 957 yards (870 m). The colliery was finally closed in April 2003.

The headstocks of the colliery are regarded as the tallest in Europe and the third tallest in the world. They are Grade 2 Listed structures and can be seen all over the district. They are expensive to keep in good repair and there have been a number of appeals, as yet to no avail, to demolish them. But however the clipstone headstocks are nearly demolished now and no one knows what will happen in the future.


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[Smiler]

Love the last shot...........Nice

[coops]

Cracking first report mate :thumb

[Krypton]

always good to see this place again :)

[stoney]

thanks i do have more pics to add once i have processed them so will keep up dated :thumb

[birdinanaviary]

great set! the chair pictures very nice, some are a little tooooo over processed for my taste *personally* but A great first report

[urban phantom]

very nicely done thanks for sharing

[nivlac]

brill post keep thinking of nipping over to this one after i met a guy at work on the m1 widening j25-j28 who told me about it and was into it before i got into it myself,

[ERNIE99_UK]

Nowt wrong with that, great report and good detail:)

[nelly]

Excellent first report mate, loving those skies :)

[myke]

nice tastefull shots the last on of the headstocks is brill