HAHA one of my mates was saying something about putting something nasty into newspaper and setting it alight so when someone comes to put it out they step in the something nasty. :thumbsdown:
And I've been thinking of sawing bits off the sofa and fridge that have been flytipped near my flat and mailing them to the council to complain about them being a "statutory nuisance".
Alas, it was just a Birthday card
Boy Engineer said:
alastairgott said:
I have something I need to put in the postbox
Here?s hoping it?s a letter, or it?ll make an interesting day for the Magistrates.
Below follows a transcript from the TSG Forum from 2 years ago, might be some answers in here.
Obtained Grid Referance, Plackett Mine Caverns, Derwent South.
Post by AlastairGott Sun Jul 28, 2019 6:38 pm
Had a weekend of not doing very much ##personal waffle excluded##
Anyway, I popped out to Hamps and Manifold which was rather uneventful, didn't really find anything of interest (i'll have to go back and have a first look in the woods between the Town of Calton and the bend in the river north of Hinkley wood rising). I'd probably park on the Calton side, as its less suspicious. A bit too obvious on the Ilam side!
Anyway I got bored of that quite rapidly and moved onto Derwent south which I'd been scouring for something surface related which looked interesting, so off I toddled past Carsington and parked above Winster. I had two 6 figure grid references to check out relating to Plackett Mine caverns.
I checked out the "another" reference first at 239 608, but found nothing really there bar a track up the hill (which looked like a miners track), a shack on the top of the hill there for some reason, Lots of nettles, an interesting depression about 6ft wide and 6ft deep and also a stone platform which could well be a shaft top, but seemed to be oddly boarded out with wooden rail sleepers at the front. so not really sure!
I then went to check out the main event at 237 610.
Prior to arriving at 610 I found a big shaft fenced once with barbed wire and another time with the crosshatch stuff they use at schools, the crosshatch stuff had found it's way "halfway" down the shaft, or at least half of the dark hole I could see! This shaft was located at SK 23786 61032
There was another shaft which was not open and had good protection of Sleepers over the top, this shaft was located at SK 23826 61064.
So some interesting stuff around this part of Winster, just hope the gas is ok down there.
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Post by AlastairGott Sun Jul 28, 2019 7:45 pm
Sorry Phil you'll also need Altitudes for updating the cave registry:
Plackett open shaft SK23786 61032 alt 217m
Plackett Sleepered Shaft SK23826 61064 alt220m
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Post by Phil Sun Jul 28, 2019 10:47 pm
Jim Rieuwerts knows tons about Plackett mines and who was last down there so I'll ask him. Sorry for the brief response but time is tight
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Re: Obtained Grid Referance, Plackett Mine Caverns, Derwent South.
Post by AlastairGott Mon Jul 29, 2019 7:02 pm
Pulled out lead mining in Derbyshire #3 last night, too late to properly ready it. So will do some good reading of that covering ?Elton to via Gellia?.
It may answer some questions (as it was written by Jim... i?ll Do my homework for Jim and come back
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Re: Obtained Grid Referance, Plackett Mine Caverns, Derwent South.
Post by Phil Mon Jul 29, 2019 11:37 pm
I've got a few other scraps by Jim not in the book that I'll email you tonight.
Real Name: GOTT ZONE.
Location: North Midlands
Post by AlastairGott Tue Jul 30, 2019 5:50 pm
For clarity, I didn?t really look at Sk 237 610, I would read that as 23700 61000, but there did not seem to be much else in the vicinity, I think 237 610 is the northerly end of the Pipe workings whereas the shafts are at the aforementioned 10 fig grid references