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In 100 years time, when this net zero nonsense is long dead, people will be desperate for that coal. How will they reach it?

Wonderful !!!... I live on a narrowboat at Bradford on Avon and been down the Bath flight of six locks at Widcombe on to the River Avon many times, I can only marvel at the fantastic amount of work that has been done since the scenes in your video. Thank You.

I recently moved my family to the area (how lucky we are) and recognised Rainbow Farm and the river crossing at Warleigh Weir. Thank you for sharing and keeping a wonderful legacy for us all to enjoy!

What a beautiful childhood and place to call home

Thanks for this. My 3x great grandparents left Banwell in 1850s and sailed to New Zealand. Many of my ancestors are born in Banwell.

Great to sea dear old Tony,I miss him!

Great pictures. I cannot swear to it but I think it is me driving my Triumph Herald after the flood of 1968 at 1:08. I can't make out the licence plate !

The garage on the corner was noton and notons daf dealer my father was the sales manager then went on to by Oldfield park motors in the 1970s

There is still evidence of the mines in that part of Somerset. Dropping down into Radstock from the Frome road you are suddenly 'oop north ' and the towns nice museum has a lift shaft winding wheel next to it. Further along the road at Midsommer Norton there is still a huge slag heap left as a momento and if you join the road to Bristol further along the village of Pensford has a distinctly mining look complete with Miners Institute in the village centre. Until moving here three years ago I thought the only mines in the South were in Kent and astonshed to find on this video that the colliery just east of Radstock at Writhlington only closed in 1973!

What immediately struck me when I saw this was the trees... in every picture of Great Pulteney Street it's lined with trees, but today there are none. Laura Place still has a few by the fountain, but what happened to the rest?

Nice nostalgia and creates wishful sighs of bygone eras, but thankfully those days are gone and we can reminisce without actually having to live them today.

I'm a Bath boy, with ancestory going back hundreds of years, here and the Somerset coal fields.....These videos are priceless....I am somewhat envious of your photo collection...Great work....

These are great! Please keep them coming! ❤

Thank you for an incredible look at Bath before the sack. Wish so much they had kept the old shops. Fascinating to see how it used to be.

Amazing place, a crime it was closed

A wonderful nostalgic look back into, some would argue better times. A much more simple life, hard but a lot slower than today’s stress filled treadmill. I’ve just subscribed to your channel as a welcome piece of escapism.

I'm Nick Forman and was one of four of siblings (Al,Jake and Luiza) belonging to Sholto and Mabel Forman who arrived in North Devon in 1949 from St.Thomas's Hospital London where they met during the Blitz in WW2 and eventually married in 1945 in Beattock, Dumfriesshire my father's birthplace. My mother Mabel was born and raised in South Africa and ran a ward in St.Thomas's where she first met my father before he was posted to Burma with the RAMC in 1942.Mabel's father ,Dick Godley, a (Deputy)Police Commissioner in Johannesburg who had also fought in the South African war alongside his brother Alec with the British army. For further particulars can be seen in Life of an Irish Soldier (Alec) and Khaki and Blue (Dick).Sholto's father was a Clergyman (the Rev Adam Forman) and was one of six siblings (three brothers and two sisters). Further particulars can be seen in 'Son of Adam' by Denis Forman( who was seriously wounded at Monte Cassino, Italy in 1943) later becoming one of Granada TV's founders with its owners the Bernstein family. Further particulars can be seen in 'To Reason Why' and 'Persona Granada'. Another brother Michael became a Company Commander with the 7th Battalion KOSB who fought at Arnhem in 1944 before eventually becoming a POW after the ammunition ran out. Robert Sigmond's 'Off at last' is interesting reading. A third brother ,Patrick, was also destined to join the KOSB but was invalided out after a Glider landing accident. All four brothers were very fortunate to have two lovely older sisters! one of them ending up in MI5. Patrick became a lawyer and aviation pilot and worked with the Sunday Times on aviation matters specialising in accident investigation.( See 'Flying into Danger' for more info). Sholto joined the Bear Street practice in Barnstaple as a junior partner in 1949 with Doctors Shaw ,Harper, Brooke and Bush enjoying a long and happy career. He was also involved with developing Social Casework in General Practice and did a stint in the Chair for the SW Regional Health Authority. We all loved Barnstaple a lot and reckon how lucky we all were to have lived there. Another partner joining the practice in 1956 was Bruce Osborne who became a lifelong friend.

I would be very interested in purchasing your photos from your videos. I am local, and my heritage goes back hundreds of years, in mines and railways.

Wonderful photo’s, terrible music.

Kind of strange how we romanticize about the days of King Coal and the life the Miners lived. Of course, it was no more romantic than what we live today and a great deal harder and dirtier but, there was something then than doesn't exist anymore, a shared Humanness that we don't have anymore. It was all so new, the technology, the systems, the unnatural rhythms to the day, then all that became normal and we were living in an unforeseen future. Life in a coal camp was nothing like life on the farm and yet different from life in the city. Nowadays, we seldom leave the house and when we do it's to go, in an enclosed car to an enclosed store or someone else's house, just like ours. We are safer now, cleaner, richer and yet, emptier.

Great photos, I was born in a mining village in Nottinghamshire, always had an interest in pits, old rail, and industry etc. Must be from seeing the headstocks and chimneys almost every day of my childhood.

I remember those Bailey bridges, and the flooding

What every makes you think we need to listen to this terrible music

Super video, a real eye opener 👍

What a relevation. As a life-long London-townie never knew there was a coalfield in this location.

Fantastic photos

Bath could do with the electric trams back, ahead of their time.

Very Interesting My Eldest son now lives on a new housing estate on top of the Timsbury mine. Think the builder had to put a lot of hard core down the shaft before they started building the houses

Is it still going??? 🤔🚂🚂🚂

Someone shoudl go look for these place while on holiday!

Very picturesque but I don't suppose there is any trace of any now?

Nice pictures! What's the music? I love it! 🙂

Thank you Mike, These photos brought back fond memoeies before my time but my childhood was spent in Monkton Combe, 1946-1972 Dennis Jones

Remarkable pictures ....!

A sneaky Oldfield Park

My father used to run the Roundhouse but in his day, early 1960’s, it was called the Abbey Wine Vaults.

Thank you for your video. If only I could turn back time. I used to travel quite regularly between Mangotsfield and Bath Green Park back in the early 1960’s. My favourite way to get to the city of Bath - wonderful days!!

I met one of the managers of Stothert & Pitts factory here, he was working as a doorman outside of the Spa Hotel having lost his pension because of the theft of the S & P pension scheme by Robert Maxwell.

Excellent set of videos. Please do more.

I worked for the NCB from 1974 and the Coal News gave a report on coal field performance. Kent was a mystery to me , as it was so far away,and I new no delf men from that region.I don’t recall any mention of coal under Somerset . This is a revelation to me . Thank you .

Brilliant video, thank you

Beautiful. Great composition, perfect music. Makes me wistful.

I did visit a mine in Radstock in the early 1970s on a short school visit, it was still a working pit, many thanks for showing

Good selection of photos but the music is really annoying,

Excellent. . 👍

Amazing ..... 👍

Fantastic 👍