does anybody know

[dam]

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

 

[jaysay]

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

 

[Mick]

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

 

[Bob Dobson]

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.
Location not known

 

[Neil]

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.

 

[bekibird]

An old well???

 

[dam]

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.

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

 

[Benipete]

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

 

[Tealeaf]

I think it's called a hole.

 

[Neil]

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

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

 

[yerself]

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

 

[Pudwoppa]

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.

 

[Mick]

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

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

 

[Bob Dobson]

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

 

[JCB]

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.

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

 

[dam]

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.

 

[jaysay]

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.

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

 

[Atarah]

for Dam - how it used to be

 

[steve2qec]

That looks more dangerous than a tunnel under the road.

 

[Pudwoppa]

^^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.