Mar 8, 2023 #1 Watersaw Mine Watersaw Mine or Sallet Hole adit no.2 as it is also known was opened in 1965 and was originally owned by Laporte Minerals who worked it for fluorspar barytes lead. In very wet weather the stream overpowers all outlets, and roars on through the cave to emerge at the entrance at road level, the Lower Entrance, where it can cause chaos if it overflows onto the main road. The stream is next seen in Streaks Pot, which is entered high above the road close to the Streaks Path, which winds up the dale side from the sharp bend on the A623. Sallet Hole Mine, Great Longstone, Derbyshire Dales District Peak District Mines Historical Society Stoney Middleton Mining Heritage Walk Report, The Eyam and Stoney Middleton Society for the Prosecution of Felons, Stoney Middleton Heritage Film Short Clip, Rock Climbing at Stoney Middleton in the 1970s, Lost love of Rowland Torre and Emmott Sydall, The best online resources for Stoney Middleton Genealogy, Construction Starts on New Visitor Centre, PLAQUE INSTALLED TO REMEMBER VILLAGE STRIKERS, Two of Laporte's 5 tonne Clayton battery locomotives, with headlamps blazing, outside the Sallet Hole mine entrance on 5th July 1980, New Image Hanging Flat Fluorspar Mine Stoney Middleton. Watersaw Mine - Feb 23 | Derelict Places - Urban Exploring Forum More up-to-date is a brief encounter with the busy main road and a little oasis of surviving Peak District industry. Derbyshire Life Walks We have various projects awaiting volunteer time, you need no experience just an interest in heritage. By the 18th century deep shafts were being dug and the workings usually would extend horizontally along the vein from these shafts. I like the translucent wall with door in the bottom photo. In the floor of the Oyster Chamber is a hole down which a tricky climb leads to a lower passage, and an entrance at road level. Not sure if that last pic is supposed to be in there? & Beck, J.S. Sallet Hole Mine, which was originally driven as a sough to the workings under Longstone Edge, before being modified into a haulage level in 1840-42. Peak District walk - Coombs Dale | Great British Life We have various projects awaiting volunteer time, you need no experience just an interest in heritage.
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