Middleton Mine, October 2009

[Oxygen Thief]

Visited with Urban Junky and Tucker, many thanks to Shadow and Raptor Jesus for being our guides.

What a massive place this is. Easily the largest underground space I have ever seen. We saw a fraction of it in half a day.

Just to get the scale of the place...

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Radio repeater station...

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Old signage...

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"Dave"...

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Remnants of ventilation systems...

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Boxes of resin, we thought it was dynamite...

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Machinery, gantries and pits...

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At one point it got quite humid in there...

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Gauges for measuring the pressure on the ceiling...

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On the way out...

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[Speed]

Great report, the one where it goes 'double decker' is awsome

[Dempsey]

Nice clean images there.

[Bunk3r]

Massive, even larger.

[diehardlove]

cant believe i was on hols and missed going back down, good pics

[Shadow]

Great pics OT, nice stuff :thumb was a awesome couple of days :)

[turkey]

Pity you didnt have the 10-20 for this, sorry again mate. Looks good though, that double decker part is insanely big!

[tucker]

This place was crazily big. Its prime for some exploring on a pushbike or could house the worlds first underground rally track. Massive slopes, up and down, with pillars that easily dwarf your average sized house. Madness! Cheers to shadow and Jesus for the tour!

You can just see OT at the background in the pic on the right

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Conveyor...

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And a big ass ventilation fan...

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Middleton, a truly collossal place

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Awesome! :thumb

[tommo]

really good pics u guys, this place does look massive and just as its been said already the upper level/low level shots are amazing :thumb

[klempner69]

Looks like you could easily fit Browns mine in there..awesome pics one and all.

[Oxygen Thief]

Looks like you could easily fit Browns mine in there..awesome pics one and all.

Maybe 100 times or more, it's ridiculously huge.

[Fly MY Pretties]

Fucking hell... I've never been interesting in exploring mines before. But I just saw these pictures and I'm totally converted. That first shot is mental, as is the one with the tunnel on top of the tunnel..

Amazing

[spungletrumpet]

Top pics, chaps.. Epic looking mine!

[cat_bones]

Very impressive!! Unbelieveable scale. Reminds me of the limestone mines accessed via the Milwr Tunnel... colossal! Nice pics too :)

[Brick_Man]

I've got to get my finger out and see this place :)

[Havoc]

Nice shots. The place is huge isnt it.

[Oxygen Thief]

Nice shots. The place is huge isnt it.

It's ridiculously huge. The largest underground space I've ever seen for sure.

[bluemoth]

what sort of mine is this, coal? lead? flourspar?

[Oxygen Thief]

Pity you didnt have the 10-20 for this, sorry again mate. Looks good though, that double decker part is insanely big!

Yeah, can't wait to get back there sometime with the 116...

[diehardlove]

Yeah, can't wait to get back there sometime with the 116...

let me know when you go down again please as got a few bits and bods to finish in the area ,also give me a shout if you need a place to stay start the lost port.

[caiman]

Lovely pics there... :)

Boxes of resin, we thought it was dynamite...

That's the stuff used to fix roof bolts into the rock - basically a two pack glue. Roof bolts being VERY long bolts that are used to hold the strata in compression - hence no need for passive steel supports.

what sort of mine is this, coal? lead? flourspar?

Very high quality limestone.

Is this mine working at present or stopped?

[diehardlove]

Lovely pics there... :)



That's the stuff used to fix roof bolts into the rock - basically a two pack glue. Roof bolts being VERY long bolts that are used to hold the strata in compression - hence no need for passive steel supports.



Very high quality limestone.

Is this mine working at present or stopped?

its under care and maintainence

[Magnetmonkey]

Wow huge!!! must go and see soon!