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Speed
June 21st, 2009, 17:55
Middleton Mine, a last minute addition to the trip list! I ended up meeting Shadow and his buddies for a day under Derbyshire last weekend.

This place is a true headfuck, miles and miles of tunnels all of a mindblowing scale, you need to measure this place in double decker buses not feet and inches! you will walk for miles and then discover a whole other level, and then another and another! Huge caverns dive down into the darkness and you find yourself in tunnels as wide as motorways yet 3 times as tall and opening to 3 differant levels! You would be better off exploring this place in a tank than on foot!

I want more! big thanks to the guys for a mint day!

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dweeb
June 21st, 2009, 18:03
That place is epic!! Is it masive size wise as well as the height and width of the tunnles?
Speed
June 21st, 2009, 18:13
for sure, it must cover square miles and then theres multiple 'layers' if you like. I think we only really did the main road between he two main entrances and then off to one of the ventshafts. We went for a couple of forays into the deeper bits but turned back after a hour or so of wandering getting lost!
Morrisey
June 21st, 2009, 22:24
Has anyone discovered the underground lake yet?
xm657
June 21st, 2009, 22:39
Oh that first shot is something else. Epic stuff!
RedVigor
June 21st, 2009, 22:45
That first shot is stunning, it looks huge in there.
Maniac
June 22nd, 2009, 10:06
Nice pics there, it's a difficult place to photograph cos it's so damned big!

We're still trying to obtain a map of this place so if anyone has any leads on the best people to approach without arousing too much suspition, let me know!

Maniac.
Raddog
June 22nd, 2009, 11:48
Last pics were average and didn't really show any scale, but this is awesome.

2009 is turning into year of Epic!
Brick_Man
June 22nd, 2009, 12:04
mindblowing scale, and captured well,

a lake you say? :p I'll take 2 of those to go please.
Shadow
June 22nd, 2009, 18:49
Yeah we've found the lake now, there yesterday / today, found 2 new levels and the deepest part, pics uploading now :) Great pics Speed :thumb
Shadow
June 22nd, 2009, 18:57
Right.. Pictures, some new stuff now. After spending lots of hours over 3 visits in the last week we have found some rather tasty new parts of the mine, and we now have a round trip style route through that goes past pretty much everything, oh and speed you know when we were trying to find that second way into the first section? Found it now, we were sooo close where we were looking :p

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Good to meet ya speed, l8rz

Shadz
tommo
June 22nd, 2009, 19:22
this place is really cool and on a massive scale, i think this is the place we where on about doing a bike ride round one day, but the entrance is small so wasnt to sure u could get a bike through

i see shadow got his big old tool out again!! torch that is lol, nice pics thought

so is it being worked at the moment, do u know who put the fans in and all the trunking it looks new ish !

top week for u guys :thumb
Shadow
June 22nd, 2009, 19:24
It stopped working 2007 i think, and its not likely to open again. Everything is really good condition down there and its dry as anything, plus we have a new entrance that WILL fit bikes ;)
tommo
June 22nd, 2009, 19:32
It stopped working 2007 i think, and its not likely to open again. Everything is really good condition down there and its dry as anything, plus we have a new entrance that WILL fit bikes ;)


wicked i think rigsby was on about get a bike down there also, lets see if we can sort something out soon ish
Shadow
June 22nd, 2009, 19:33
Took rigsby and Rooks round today ;) but didnt bring a bike with him unfortunately.
Maniac
June 22nd, 2009, 23:54
WOW, looks like you found a whole lot more since I was last there with you! Curse you work, and curse me living so damned far away!
Alias
June 23rd, 2009, 00:39
absolutely amazing.
rookinella
June 24th, 2009, 00:22
OMG both of you, your photos are amazing of the place. Mine came out err....shite :p It was so hard to light! Massive thanks to Shadow and Co. :)
Shadow
June 24th, 2009, 10:31
OMG both of you, your photos are amazing of the place. Mine came out err....shite :p It was so hard to light! Massive thanks to Shadow and Co. :)

Yeah that place is an absolute fucker to light, our portable suns; I mean torches help though :p
Maniac
June 24th, 2009, 11:13
Yeah that place is an absolute fucker to light, our portable suns; I mean torches help though :p

You wait until you see the lighting rig I'm working on for the next trip, in theory we should have 2 hours of light as bright as that torch if I can get the parts in time!