> December ist 1957 Territorial Army blasted
> the entrance to Engine Vein Mine and severe damage to the surround area on
> the orders of the national trust.
Macclesfield Rural District Council blasted a shaft into Engine Vein in the
1960s. They'd discovered that a small pond near a tree was in fact a pool of
water over a wood-planked shaft capping and they blew it in. I discovered
them up to this one day by which time they were trying to fill in the
so-called "Blue Shaft" into the drainage level by shovelling loose earth and
rock into it from the stuff that had fallen down the blasted shaft. I called
the National Trust who said they'd not been told about it. They sent out one
of their bods who duly arrived in a suit and tie and we took him down there
to show him around. He was not amused. Can't recall now what the upshot of
it all was. But it didn't do the pretty chrysocolla lining of the Blue Shaft
any good. One of the blasting crew told me that large lumps of rock fell
from the roof into the big open room at the end of the open cut in Engine
Vein when the blasting took place. He'd not been impressed with this since
he was standing in there at the time. Health and Safety at Work or what?
Mick
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