stillingfleet mine

STILLINGFLEET COAL COLLIERY - York, England - June 2020 HISTORY Stillingfleet Colliery was a mine which made up part of the Selby Coalfield Complex, that also included Wistow Mine, Riccall Mine, North Selby Mine, Whitemoor Mine and Gascoigne Wood Mine. The Stillingfleet site opened in...

After spending Christmas in Hull and a few days in Amsterdam myself and The Stig decided to check out a couple explores which took us to Selby mines. Two have now been taken over by offices/industrialised again, another being pulled down, Stillingfleet and Gascoigne are the last disused mines...

Back in April this year I explored the Wistow Mine one of the Selby pits that were closed in 2002. To be honest the visit to Selby was quite a thought provoking experience for me, I hadn't appreciated quite the scale of the waste that Selby represented. Normally exploring you see sites that are...