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Does anybody know what this is and if its still there.

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Remember seeing something like that when I was a kid, think somebody said it was a ventilation shaft for a coal mine, but it was fenced of and had a cover

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looks more like a drainage culvert entrance
looks like a reservoir in the background
no idea where and could be wrong but that's my thought on it

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I am going for something connected with the nearby waterworks/reservoir. The brickwork around the opening would likely be done when the res. was being planned.
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There is a road in the background. I have seen small tunnels under roads before to let foxes, badgers etc cross under the road. This looks too far away from the road though for that.

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An old well???

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your getting WARM but it wasn`t to let foxes etc through. the road is the key

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Looks like it's there to stop the road from flooding.

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I think it's called a hole.

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I wondered about that but the land does not look like it would flood

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To take a stream under the road? Is it the one in Huncoat between the Griffin and Hapton?

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Could be the collapsed roof from a coke oven or kiln? Looks very similar to the ones near blythes, but it's definitely a different road in the background.

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If you know what it is why are you bothering us with it ??

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It's time to show your hand Mick. You are getting as bad as Retlaw - no, I take that back.

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That's what came to mind when I first saw it .

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It used to take clay from the clay quarry at the top of burnley rd, under burnley road down to the brick works. then there was an accident involving children so they built the cable system which carried the buckets of clay over burnley road.

the reason i asked if anyone new of it is because i wanted to know if its still there.

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The cable system isn't:rolleyes: I'd have noticed the last time I went to a funeral:D

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for Dam - how it used to be

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That looks more dangerous than a tunnel under the road.

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^^Agreed. Looks really unsafe. A good blast of wind and your car/horse is covered in clay. Any idea what the accident was? A cave-in seems unlikely beneath a major road - engineers would have been castrated.

Thanks for the pic Atarah - I've never seen that.

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well if you wanted to know if it was still there you should have told us where it was and someone could have gone and had a look for you

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Grief Mick, you got out of bed the wrong side?

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Whilst I cannot come up with the date, I do know that the fatal acident involved a Huncoat policeman's child in the tunnel, and resulted in the overhead sysrtem being initiated. There is a photo of the system in the boojk 'Hncoat Uncoated' by John Goddard, which I published.

I have just looked at the book - the photo we have been discussing is in it (p33) and tells that the system was dismantled in the 60s.