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I took a bike ride to Clipstone so here are the photos as promised.

The rail sidings have long gone, nothing much remains
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I was told the head stocks will remain by the workers, although the Clipstone Labour Party are trying to get them removed.
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Jesus christ, they've been working overtime to get rid of all those buildings. bloody hell, the last time i drove past there some of the buildings at the front were still there. and behind, there was loads still left.

That's not looking good at all now. Worried they might accidently get too close to the headstocks so they have to be demolished.

Cheers for the pics mate, it looks very depressing there now. :'(

:( Sal
 
Its not too far away from what I saw on my last visit in November, I'm glad that more people are taking an interest in one of the most interesting industrial sites around in the UK.
 
Its not too far away from what I saw on my last visit in November, I'm glad that more people are taking an interest in one of the most interesting industrial sites around in the UK.

Its very different from what it was like in November. Only two and a half buildings are left. One is the main headstock complex, the small building to the south east of the head stock. The long building at the front is half gone. The rest are history. In November most of the buildings were standing

Flash Earth
 
Jesus christ, they've been working overtime to get rid of all those buildings. bloody hell, the last time i drove past there some of the buildings at the front were still there. and behind, there was loads still left.

That's not looking good at all now. Worried they might accidently get too close to the headstocks so they have to be demolished.

Cheers for the pics mate, it looks very depressing there now. :'(

:( Sal

I am glad I got some pictures now. I am kicking myself for leaving it so late.
 
Its very different from what it was like in November. Only two and a half buildings are left. One is the main headstock complex, the small building to the south east of the head stock. The long building at the front is half gone. The rest are history. In November most of the buildings were standing

Flash Earth

I think quite a few were gone then, All the stuff by the road was flat the old lamp room, stores etc, the Victorian bits. They'd just started on coal prep.

I think its a same that they've lost the ancillary buildings as the contributed to the context of the headstock's, ventilation house and headstock's. Even the loss of the perimeter wall reduces the aesthetics of the site. It seems like a concerted attempt to make the listed structures seem isolated from historical context. No doubt as part of a renewed attempt to de-list and demolish.
 
It seems like the villagers and council of Clipstone are hell bent on getting rid of the colliery and everything that goes with it. They seem to have forgotten that the only reason the village of Clipstone exists is because of the colliery and that brought wealth into a poor area.
 
Thats exactly what i wrote in the chad letter months ago, when that damm councillor Ms Soar was adamant they were going to get the headstocks de-listed. bloody woman.

As it looks on your pics now, that could easily be incorporated into the vicar water country park behind. thats another thing i kept going on about. its perfect to be joined up with the country park.

I notice she never replied back to the letter when i kept on saying that clipstone wouldn't be there if the colliery hadn't been sunk, and village's name when it was first built was New Clipstone. She never replied to that either. grrrrrrrr!!!!

Sorry, rant over - again :(
 
As it looks on your pics now, that could easily be incorporated into the vicar water country park behind. thats another thing i kept going on about. its perfect to be joined up with the country park.

Sorry, rant over - again :(

It would be good to extend Vicar Water to include the site. They could even turn the Headstocks into a mining museum, but they seem to be rather pig headed.

Don't worry, rant away;)
 
Can you imagine working for a company that has a little more than 600 employees and has the following employee statistics:

29 have been accused of spouse abuse
7 have been arrested for fraud
9 have been accused of writing bad cheques
17 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses
3 have done time for assault
71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
14 have been arrested on drug-related charges
8 have been arrested for shop-lifting
21 are currently defendants in lawsuits
84 have been arrested for drink driving in the last year

Which organisation is this?

It's the 635 members of the House of Commons, the same group that cranks out hundreds of new laws each year signed to keep the rest of us inline....
 
Good grief, KA, that's phenomenal! :eek:

71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit...
the same group that cranks out hundreds of new laws each year signed to keep the rest of us inline....

On the very low income I'm on, even I can get a credit card (but choose not to). I'm so glad some of them understand what it feels like to be marginalised in some way!
Never a truer word was spoken re the last sentence, imo.
 
I don't know if it's been mentioned in another Clipstone thread, but why was the colliery closed? Was it an economic thing, or reserves run out?
 
A big shame so much has gone. It would be tragic if the headstocks were lost.
 
I don't know if it's been mentioned in another Clipstone thread, but why was the colliery closed? Was it an economic thing, or reserves run out?

Basically the easy, (economic) reserves had run out. UK coal Doesnt like to work difficult reserves in new seams, in fact you could say they dont like working ANY reserves in ANY seems. UK Coal had the pit on lease from the coal authourity so control reverted to them leaving them in overall control of the site. The pit was offered as an operational prospect but when no bidders came foreward the shafts were capped.

Ultimately its difficult to be upset about the closure of clipstone, which while it was locally damaging had probably no more than 5 to 10 years left in it. When compared to other pits with more extensive resources have been ditched over the last 20 years it doesnt seem so dramatic.

The academic reason for clipstones value now is as a rare example of a modern pit, There would be virtually no case for opening clipstone again. Instead the site is important as a modern monument, Clipstones headframes and winding house are unique. They deserve to stay and remain the focal point of the community, A key part of any new regeneration.
 

The only seam being mined by RJB at the time of closure, was the Yard Seam - 873 metres depth. In 2003 this seams mine-able reserves ran out. The Blackshale seam - 884 metres depth - contains too much dirt for cost effective extraction.
 

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