Mines on the moors
 

I have just been wandering through www.www.webbaviation.co.uk
There is a srction on Accrington;
Here are a couple of photographs of an abandond mine on top of Moleside.
One is noted, the other one is in a photograph where the pilot/photographer says he was looking for evidence of where the PALS trained prior to WWII.
Could annyone enlighten me, I lived in accrington for 23 years, and heard nothing about these mines

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aerial photographs of Accrington Lancashire UK

Your link didn't work so I found it

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Interesting.:)

Where is Moleside? can someone Flash earth me the location?

I will go and have a closer look sometime.

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top of coppice t'other side of bypass. Slate pitts farm is below it.

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Can you centre it on flash earth.:)

I have put it on the coppice lodges at present.

Flash Earth ...satellite and aerial imagery of the Earth in Flash

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Yea sure this is roughly in the middle if you want me to centre where the photo was took i will do :D.

If you do go up there myt be some cows on the hill :).

Flash Earth ...satellite and aerial imagery of the Earth in Flash

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Lance they are the trenches on top of the coppice the mines in question are actually quarrys i belive.

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No thats good, nice one.

Thats what I was thinking Quarry, not mine, although you would be supprised how much mining activity there was round this area many years ago.

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Surely he is wrong as the Late Bill Turner or other local historians would have Known abouth this and why would they train in a mine.

They deffo trained on the trenches as they dug them out themselfs.

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If its the second pic on top row you're meaning - that is on Moleside yes but its on the side that faces down to the Hapton Inn pub and the Burnley - Acc road - they are old quarry workings not mines

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Mickmc you seem to know a lot about Hambledon is that that the ridges you can see from hapton.

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See the book 'Coal Mines around Accrington & District' by Jack Nadin, published 1999. Accrington Local studies library have a copy. It is probably still available nfrom Northern Mines Research Society Accrington chap Harry Tootle will be able to assist further. He wrote the book on Moorfield Pit Disaster.

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Nice walking up there !!

Yes those are the ridges

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The modern use of mines fI think is for quarries, No one seems to quarry anymore, they open cast mine.
I think the term was coined by our American cousins.

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glad i stumbled upon this thread, i also wondered where moleside was so did a search and found a nice little walk called the hambledon hill loop, me thinks i will be making that treck sometime in the near future, isnt it surprising whats on your doorstep, and you dont even know about it :confused: