I didn't respond to this straight away because I stuck to my long-standing rule of not posting in anger. However, 48 hours has not...

I'd be inclined to agree with Phil; the Museum will probably take it if it's going to be binned otherwise but there's a shortage of...

The NT might not be looking out for things on the internet about Odin, but there are other mine sites in the Peak where I know that the...

I doubt it would be a good candidate for C14 dating anyway, if it's heartwood the date could be out by a few centuries. When John...

Perhaps not best in the conventional sense, but probably the gloomiest...

Saw the title of this thread and thought "well, that's a given!" Everything you walk on except the crosscuts in Odin Mine is a false...

Picked up a couple of M16 nuts this morning and took the dog for a walk over to the shaft; the new nuts seemed to have plenty of bite...

I think he means Newburgh Level, which although a bit wet, isn't a sough - Brightside Sough is the one running under the valley bottom

Possibly the deep sough to Goyt's Moss Colliery has run in - I'm not sure exactly where the collapse is in relation to the boat level...

Nothing to do with the mining, and everything to do with the road drain going into a soakaway into weathered shale, like the Mam Tor...

Someone like a trained blacksmith with a small hearth and anvil in his garage? Something like that could work on the engine shaft; the...

Okay... having just got back from a quick dogwalk over to the shaft, the good news is I found the nuts in the grass alongside the shaft...

Whalf Engine shaft is 16mm.

Not sure about the climber but the engine shaft may be an odd older size like the Knotlow engine shaft, might even have been a...

Have you watched Dave Webb's film about the attempted rescue of Neil Moss -...