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What terrific photos!!!

Awesome video 🤩 I visited there today! Not confident enough to explore too far but the large cavern was a very cool place to eat my lunch 😅 There were tiny mushrooms growing down there too!

Very interesting! It does have ancient vibes about it.

Thank you Steve. I live in Barwell and travel through Stoney Stanton frequently. I know of all the old quarries, but to see pictures of them in their hayday is amazing, I didn't know about the railway either. Fantasic work and very professional, I love all your videos.

Late comment but is that brooke just off of larch street that leads to witches tunnel

Fabulous. It would be incredible to have the whole mill regenerated into a working one again.

My grandparents lived in Unity Avenue and Granny worked at the flour mill (Co-op in those days). Sadly nothing left there now but don't forget Willowbrook Road followed the brook. We lived next to the brook a little further out off Coleman Road in my childhood days (now some 70 years ago). It was a nice little country stream there until they built Rowletts Hill Estate and we began getting floods so now it's a concrete sewer!

Have you been to glenfield tunnel as well off groby road

Where's this

Fabulous, and fabulous photos! Tragic story.

Did you return?!

Brought up walking this area loads as a kid. Still live nearby now. Bennerley Viaduct along the way for the views

Hmmm, I think you may have just solved a mystery! On the sides of some new build houses near me there are bricks in the walls with an arrow shaped brick underneath. I've tried finding out what they are but, no luck. Is this a modern day bench mark for new houses?

A random, unrelated, old maps question... have you in your searches ever come across a 'Dragon Pit'. Not too far from where I live in Bodmin, there's a Dragon Pit on some of the old maps. I can't find anything on the internet about what that would have been (other than folklore, D&D and Game of Thrones related bits and pieces.) Cornwall and Isle of Wight have been associated with giants and dragons in the past... so I do find it intriguing!

Fantastic tirbute. It would be lovely to clear it all. Love the ghostbusting nosies!

Night-time noseh! Love it!

Bro your doing good work my son,, only just started watching this video and I am impressed when it comes to Nottingham and history ! And AM looking forward to seeing some more videos

Tart mines?

Pissed up priest, PMSL, classic, awesome name. 👍

Brilliant! Great photos from Dave too.

Fabulous! I love checking the old maps and hunting for bubbling springs. It would be great to see some more spring or holy well noseys!

Lovely nosey! Thank you!

Good to see this as I stopped off at Stoney Cove for brekky on my walk starting & finishing at Sapcote. I used to live in Sapcote & returned just before turning 50, recently. Great to see your enthusiasm! 👍😉

I went down a lot of tunnels when I was a kid, my dad showed me around them.. I don't remember too much about them, it was over 50 years ago, but we walked under from the graveyard on Mansfield road under victoria center and out somewhere near the castle.

Really enjoyed this and learnt a lot

me and my m8s got to the bottom of that about 5 years ago once you get deeper it opens up even more

Great video! Making two amazingly interesting videos one after the other. As soon as the video started, I thought I recognised the area. (watching it back I've realised that a great chunk of the start didn't play for some reason) Gut feel. But then you showed the millstone and my brother, and I also found one just off the path in the area I was thinking of in 2017. Between Grindleford and Froggatt Edge. Then at the end you mention Grindleford! I've just found the photo. The smelt mill would be there because of the woods to make the charcoal used as fuel. (pre-extensive coal production) There is the same history in the south Lake District, Lancashire North of the Sands/ Furness where early iron smelting was carried out. Remember the charcoal burners in Swallows and Amazons? (Though they were probably producing it for gun powder by then). If the place you found is the place I've just found on the internet, then it had a sophisticated wood drying facility as well. I would guess that the waterpower was for bellows in the furnace(s).

Good video

Brilliant video, Crich is my place of birth and family still live in the village. You guys need to return as you have missed lots, especially the old mines down Wakebridge (Phil L knows lots, he had a good teacher 😏).

"It's been raining since October"... and it kept raining for the best part of the year 😔

Fascinating! Wouldn't it be great if local history was on the school curriculum. 👍

Brilliant video, loved it. I know where out weekend will take us!! Thanks 😁

"Who cast that rivet?" My thoughts exactly. When you think Steve, there's a load of mine workings right underneath our feet where we live (my house is over the pit bottom), it would be great to access these Great video

Nice one fellas 👍

Great video Steve, a very easy 28 mins on the x-Trainer with this, some gorgeous colours in that stone. Honestly there is more history, heritage and life lessons in this than a young person will get in a week's worth a schooling, excellent noseh!

❤professional. Very well presented. Perfect.

Tha wants to get tha sen a decent torch with an high CRI emitter for this sort of video, it would show the colours in the rocks tons better.

That one was close to home - I grew up in a former mining town, gold mining between about 1894 and abrupt end in 1929. The Depression hit and they just shut the doors and left, all the gear and everything left in there. Open adits, stopes and even main shafts scattered around town. Those very narrow sometimes slanted passages like the one near the end of the video were created by miners following a vein of ore. Horribly dangerous conditions, which led in part to the birth of the union movement in British Columbia, in my hometown..There used to be tours given of the main entrance and blacksmiths shop in one of the biggest of the mines, just fantastic - but then lawyers got involved and that ended as well. Anyway, another great one, well done!

If you want to visit a few more mines, I live here in Matlock and know loads of them, let me know if you’re up for it me ewd 👍

Nice little explore Steve...😃👍🏻

Should have had some pasties with you Steve, very brave well done.

Nimble fingers getting this out so quick. Nice intro too. When the rain forces us underground, it does have its advantages !

Nah then, ey up me duck. Hope you're well fella. Really enjoyed this one, very interesting. Ay a good'un me owd 🙂👍

Absolutely brilliant video

Those scratch marks look like loads removed marks. A tally of rock or ore removed.

Heyup there Picker! Tha’s gettin’ a bit cocky these days when folks offer you an explanation! I love your videos mate but please, please, please don’t become one of THEM RUclipsrs who make content about a certain subject and get to believing they know the lot without any real learning. Aside from that mate, your videos bring a good bit of a smile to mine and lots of other’s faces of a Sunday evening! Keep up the great work! Not just to Steve but to the whole gang, you all make it special.

I love me a bit of toad in the hole! My Grampa was from mining stock. Was an engineer for the RAF. Moved all over the place for work (as military do), even around Leicestershire.

Just watched this for a second time, and it was even better! Incredible finds and historical memory.

My favourite bit here was the photo of the tramway with the woods you were tramping around in in the background - it fit perfectly with your finger pointing from the top of that hill, and both things went together to make great sense. I liked that.

Dug by hand. Can't imagine it I can't. Proper men. My Granddad and Mum are from Melton I'm from Nottingham born in Leicester. Dunno how I stumbled on your videos but I'm loving them. There is a council golf course in Melton I think the area is called Sysonby. Apparently it was a Norman settlement, the church is still there dunno if that's of any interest to you but I've been trying to find out about it myself.