Hi my name is Colin, i live in Bolsover, and am sure i will find plenty of interesting input from this site, and hopefully contribute usefull information in the future, especially of the Bolsover area, as i have worked at Bolsover colliery, Coalite, and Mercol descaling in carrvale.
While growing up spent most of my time around the countrside and know a lot of old buildings in the area, also metal detected for 30 years so this helped a lot with knowing what might have been on now empty fields, sadly had too give up couple years ago as bad knees now, but still get out on my ebike, and frequent places like Hardwick hall, pleasley old pit, Teversal etc, so still on lookout for interesting places.
and always have my dslr camera at hand for pictures of old places.