[jambutty]

Originally Posted by cashman

now interesting question maybe jambutty knows? an old mate of mine who worked at scaitcliffe once told me you could walk from scaitcliffe following one particular shaft n come out in huncoat pit, was that the case? always wondered.

It’s possible because as I mentioned the coalface was some five miles from the shaft in the direction of Huncoat and there were old workings that we weren’t allowed to go into.

During training at Bank Hall we were told that many adjacent mines did have roadways leading from one to the other as escape routes in the case of a roof collapse blocking the access to the main shaft in one mine.

Most small mines like Scaitcliffe had two shafts but only one was for getting the men down and back up and also for bringing the coal up. The other shaft was a ventilation shaft that didn’t have any winding gear for it.