Both have just showered after finishing the day shift, which starts at 5.45am and ends at 1.45pm. The top 600 feet of the ground was found to be waterlogged necessitating in freezing the strata to enable the sinking. They’ve got morals. The lamp room, where miners pick up their safety lamps before going underground, has had half its fixtures pulled up. The top of the shaft, where the ‘cages’ take miners down to the seams. The shafts were eventually sunk to a depth of around 870 yards (800 m). 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UK Map » Map of England » North Yorkshire County » Kellingley Map. In the canteen I meet Martin Hunt, 52, sitting at one of the chipped Formica tables. But business minister, Matthew Hancock, argued that the £338m said to be required for this plan "does not represent value for money". He is from Kent and started his career in the Kentish mines, one of the many to close after the miners’ strike of 1984/5. It is difficult to decipher: a series of numbers, lines and blocks of colour cover the large sheet of paper. It is the biggest deep mine remaining in Yorkshire and as at 2009 employs approx 600 people. ‘It’s always given me a good living. Kellingley Colliery, the last deep coal mine in Britain, closes down for good next week, finally shutting the book on a trade that stoked the industrial revolution and helped fuel an empire. When it set, most of the water leaking into the shafts was stopped and the ground around the upper part of the shafts was stabilised. After a concrete lining sealed the shafts, the cooling brine was stopped and the frozen ground allowed to thaw. Many of the miners relocated from Scotland to work at the colliery, having lost their jobs at Scottish pits that closed in the 1960s. Kellingley Colliery manager Shaun McLoughlin said investment at the site over the years had gone into state-of-the-art equipment, but because of wider pit closures there was no demand for it. Just off the junction where the A1 meets the M62, near Castleford, the mine feels not only neglected, but semi-deserted. [3] During planning and building the surface infrastructure for the new colliery, employment of 3,000 mineworkers was expected at completion. Webb’s accent is a surprise – not the elongated vowels of Castleford or Pontefract. Kellingley Colliery was a deep coal mine in North Yorkshire, England, 3.6 miles (5.8 km) east of Ferrybridge power station. It’s Third World here,’ he says drily. [7] A miner from Kellingley, Joe Green, was killed after being hit by a lorry on 15 June 1984. The procedure was done regularly during the pumping phase to bring the towers into alignment. ‘There’s no other work here. I have also included a few pictures from the day of closure on the 18th of December 2016 and the march in Knottingley the following day. And if they did, they’d go bright red. And it’s not only the landscape that will change. I don’t want to work in a warehouse. Spread out on the sturdy boardroom table in Shaun McLoughlin’s office is a large surveyor’s map. Sorry, there are no documents currently available. I can remember them officially saying they will not shut a place that’s making its own money. People are going to have to move out.’ Webb says Christmas will be difficult this year. 'cwmorthin', use 'Sounds like search' if unsure of spelling, Tip: narrow down your search by typing more than one word and selecting 'Search for all words' or 'Exact search', AditNow... the site for mine explorers and mining historians, Mine explorer and mining history videos on YouTube, Connect with other mine explorers on Facebook. Grout, a thin cement mixture, was pumped at high pressure through holes bored through the shaft's concrete lining into the water-bearing strata. The procedure was done regularly during the pumping phase to bring the towers into alignment. We can’t get our heads around it – going out, feeling jolly, buying presents for people when you’re thinking, “Where’s the next pound coming from?” But, in life, you’ve got to keep going forward.’, Then trade secretary Peter Mandelson visits the pit in 1998. Those in any doubt can glance outside the canteen window and see the marble memorial to 17 men who have died at Big K since they dug the first shaft in 1959. Many of the miners relocated from Scotland to work at the colliery, having lost their jobs at Scottish pits that closed in the 1960s.

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