Abandoned Colliery - Chatterley Whitfield, Stoke-on-Trent - DJI MINI3 Pro - June 2023

Описание: We visited on an extremely hot and sunny day, and yet the atmosphere of the disused and decaying colliery - that once was busy with up to 3000 miners working shifts all through the day and night - was far from sunny, melancholy, neglected and altogether a sad reflection of what once was...

Abandoned, decaying, overgrown, yet something of its former character still shines out, the echoes of hard working men, the ghosts of those who died in the pit disaster of 1881, and the memory of the noise, industry and pride taken in a job well done still resonate among the forlorn buildings...

I was fortunate to have been on a school trip to the museum and visited the coal workings 700ft below ground, back in the 1980's not long after the museum opened and before it closed in the early 1990's.

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Drone - 'Mighty Midge' - DJI MINI3 Pro
Edited using - DaVinci Resolve 18 (beta)
Music - Abandoned House - SergePavkinMusic - https://pixabay.com/music/suspense-ab...

From Wikipedia
Chatterley Whitfield Colliery is a disused coal mine on the outskirts of Chell, Staffordshire in Stoke on Trent, England. It was the largest mine working the North Staffordshire Coalfield and was the first colliery in the UK to produce one million tons of saleable coal in a year.

After coal production stopped at Chatterley Whitfield on Friday 25 March 1977, a brave venture was started by an independent charitable trust to turn the colliery into Britain’s first underground mining museum. Before any visitors could take this underground trip much preparation work had to be done on site. Derelict buildings were renovated, the underground galleries were made safe for visitors, and mining machinery restored in its original working condition in order to show in great realism the life and working conditions of local miners and to preserve an example of the country’s industrial heritage.

In 1979 the Chatterley Whitfield Mining Museum opened and it soon gained a reputation of being Britain’s best known mining museum attracting over 70,000 visitors a year and contributing to the local tourism.

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