Tilberthwaite Deep Level

dougle89

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Went into Tilberthwaite Deep Level (horse crag level) last night, some fantastic work been done by CATMHS in clearing and shoring up the further reaches. When you come to the end you look up the rotten ladders to an enticing stempled stope. Is there a way up here other than free climbing up onto the stemples and climbing up them?
 

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dougle89 said:
Went into Tilberthwaite Deep Level (horse crag level) last night, some fantastic work been done by CATMHS in clearing and shoring up the further reaches. When you come to the end you look up the rotten ladders to an enticing stempled stope. Is there a way up here other than free climbing up onto the stemples and climbing up them?
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I wish I'd managed to get there to take a look over Christmas but ran out of time. I guess that photo is looking up?
 
Ttxela said:
I wish I'd managed to get there to take a look over Christmas but ran out of time. I guess that photo is looking up?
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Yeah that's right at the end of the level looking up, no idea what's up there, guessing workings above
 
Stemples look good, but I don’t see a Saftey line for the chest croll or shunt
 
Yes you could shunt it up . Photos don’t do it any scale ! Also you don’t know what the ladder will be like , risking it on a stemple is iffy .
 
I saw a video, and did some reading about the team who dug it out. What an effort, and to the standard it’s done……amazing 😳
 
Big-G said:
I saw a video, and did some reading about the team who dug it out. What an effort, and to the standard it’s done……amazing 😳
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The corridor of bagged rubble is an absolute testament to the efforts of the digging team, was awe inspiring to see that amount of material moved
 
I seem to remember someone telling me that there was a through trip from that rise / shaft, but could be getting mixed up. It also may not be doable anymore if it was.
 
Mr Mike said:
I seem to remember someone telling me that there was a through trip from that rise / shaft, but could be getting mixed up. It also may not be doable anymore if it was.
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I wonder if one of the surface workings on the fell above goes down into it then, or one of the adits uphill
 
You are correct Mike, there was a through trip from the Waterfall adit higher up the gill that ran into the workings at Tilberthwaite mine and led to a series of pitches that drop (about 400ft?) onto the Horse Crag level . Unfortunately, I'm told there has been a collapse in the Waterfall adit and a false floor in a watered section has gone as well, so the through trip is now impassable.
 
Heb is correct - no through trip is possible. Which is a pity. I've been down from the top to end up in the flooded horse level and been unable to exit. And I've been up the now dug out horse level and been unable to exit! Poor timing.

Chris.
 
ChrisJC said:
Heb is correct - no through trip is possible. Which is a pity. I've been down from the top to end up in the flooded horse level and been unable to exit. And I've been up the now dug out horse level and been unable to exit! Poor timing.

Chris.
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How far down can you get Chris? Or is it collapsed on the first adit?
 
This was before the collapse, we went in the waterfall level, and abseiled down a long way through all sorts of hanging nonsense to arrive in chest deep water.

It was in 2009.

Chris.
 
It was always a poor descent. When you got to the end of a low crosscut between the stopes you had to traverse along the top of the stope to the ore chute and accompanying manway next to it. Neither could be described as 'safe'. The intervening 35/40 years will not have improved it.
 
If memory serves, it was around the time of Storm Desmond that the upper entrance was blocked. I expect the river flowed straight in and did the damage.

Chris.
 
ChrisJC said:
If memory serves, it was around the time of Storm Desmond that the upper entrance was blocked. I expect the river flowed straight in and did the damage.

Chris.
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No chance of a CATMHS dig to reopen it like the deep level? 😅
 
Many years ago, Mike Mitchell and I had a rather half-hearted dig in one corner of the stope which looked rather like t part of a shaft. Every time we dug it just ran and ran with smaller stuff so in the end we gave up. Imagine our surprise later in the day on the surface where we saw an area which obviously had been directly above where we had dug, had slumped.

The watercourse, swollen by Storm Desmond would not have to travel far to cause havoc in the stopes.
 
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