Dan Punchard:
There is 3 levels ,they once got the turrets wrong and that’s why when you walk over the moor there’s a field which was level is now a huge crater.
Is’nt that one of the reasons that the Atki of W.H.P was running to the mine from M.Peak with asdug to keep the plant producing glass dust and fillers when there had been a collapse or they had hit a fault.Always plenty of aglime and quite a bit of aggregate stocked down there,use to turn all the lights of while waiting for a machine,scarry soon turned the buggers back on
A bit before my time that mike, I remember the scrap tippers and carrot crunchers queuing back to the rising sun in the 80s as I went past on the school bus,also queuing at middlepeak train hopper ,on cross country runs we would run between the train trucks ,I later found they were loaded for Harlem mill? Is that Harlow glass works?
Dan Punchard:
A bit before my time that mike, I remember the scrap tippers and carrot crunchers queuing back to the rising sun in the 80s as I went past on the school bus,also queuing at middlepeak train hopper ,on cross country runs we would run between the train trucks ,I later found they were loaded for Harlem mill? Is that Harlow glass works?
Hello Dan.
Did’nt know it was called Harlem Mill but glass dust certainly went to Harlow Glass works for many years.If there was ever a rail strike or incident down the track as in the picture below when a loaded train of sugar stone derailed at Shottle in October 1968, we were pressed into service delivering until normal service resumed.You can still see piles of sugar stone in the undergrowth when you travel down the line.
Mike.
There were weigh tickets blowing about in the railweighbridge at the back of the then linings and hoses on wirksworth station ,the train would come up early ish and go back past school around lunch time,we went to middlepeak for a work experience tour ,they basically were saying if you fail the exams you can always get a job here, then it shut!
Use load bags out of the mine for Omya years ago, could drive in with an artic and spin it round,been closed for years till recently, but have heard that Omya are back working in there
sepo1:
Use load bags out of the mine for Omya years ago, could drive in with an artic and spin it round,been closed for years till recently, but have heard that Omya are back working in there
They aren’t working it step toe ,they are just emptying aglime out of storage.
Talking to my neighbour tonight he says there is still 100’000 tonnes of aglime on stock in Middleton mine ,its about 3 to 4 miles in ,I just can’t imagine how big it is ,I’ve only been about 500 yards in my 4 wheeler to the 1 st loading point.
Dan Punchard:
Talking to my neighbour tonight he says there is still 100’000 tonnes of aglime on stock in Middleton mine ,its about 3 to 4 miles in ,I just can’t imagine how big it is ,I’ve only been about 500 yards in my 4 wheeler to the 1 st loading point.
Maybe its good you didnt go any further PunchLard your shatnav would have lost contact and youd have missed y Tea;-]
