Sink Holes

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SpeleoTrog

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Rhys said:
"...while a large sinkhole appeared on the B4265 St Brides Road at Wick, Vale of Glamorgan."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-26111651

This was reported the week before last. It was potentially nearer to cave bearing limestone than most of those reported. Don't know if anyone local got over to have a look. JessopSmythe...?
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Missed that one, sorry. Mind you, the way the Vale of Glamorgan are at fixing potholes in the road, it must have been difficult to work out which one was the new sinkhole!
 
Joe90

Joe90

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Missed that one, sorry. Mind you, the way the Vale of Glamorgan are at fixing potholes in the road, it must have been difficult to work out which one was the new sinkhole!
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I think that's nationwide to be honest.
 
Roger W

Roger W

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And still they come!

This one's in County Durham.

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http://www.itv.com/news/tyne-tees/story/2014-08-22/sinkhole-swallows-county-durham-farmland/

and

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2732531/Terrifying-sinkhole-100ft-wide-appears-overnight-Pennines-s-deep-t-bottom.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

(Sorry if I've offended anyone by the DM link, but they do have some better pictures.)
 
andys

andys

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I like the bit in the DM write-up where the land owner says he's seen no evidence of a collapsed shaft in the vicinity. Especially when one of the pics shows a fenced off rectangular area just to one side and (what looks incredibly like) the ginging of a shaft bang in the middle of the collapse.  :) :)
 
braveduck

braveduck

Active member
If you look this thread up on UK caving you will find out a lot more about that gentleman !
The mining community  have had many dealings with him ! :mad:
 
Wormy

Wormy

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Haha! as a weardale local I know  lot o peole I go out with have had runins with this guy regarding mine access.....one of the specifically relating to the fenced off shaft top you can see in the pictures, many are assuming its Karma geting him back!
 
Alex

Alex

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It almost looks certainly to be part of a mine, have you noticed the what was an underground wall on the right-hand side of the picture. In an ironic way it is probably good he blocked access as someone could have been down there when it happened.
 
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Jenny P

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Something very similar happened in Epsom High Street in, I think, the early 1960's and on that occasion the "sinkhole" which swallowed a double-decker bus was a collapsed Victorian sewer.  It glued up the traffic hopelessly for umpteen months before the hole was repaired and, I assume, they re-built that part of the sewer.

There is a whole series of articles in the Chelsea S. S. Newsletters in the 1970's and 80's about the sinkholes in the chalk near, I think, Bury St. Edmunds - a whole new estate of houses had been built above an area of Dene Holes and the soakaways taking the rainwater opened them up.  Pretty sure there is a separate publication on this event.



 
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mikem

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Florida programme back on iplayer for another couple of weeks:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03tz705/horizon-20132014-6-swallowed-by-a-sinkhole

Mike
 
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