"Hanging Flat Mine" full video explore

This is a video about exploring "Hanging Flat Mine" This mine is located in Derbyshire quite near Stony Middleton. Hanging flat mine started in the 1800s originally mining galena extract. In the 1950s to early 60s it was later reused to mine fluorspar. It then featured in a tv show in more recent years, called "Peak Practice". The earliest recorded history dates back to the late 1800s, when Samuel Needham and his brother occupied the nearby Hanging Flat House and worked the level. In the 1950s, the mine was expanded to exploit the Needham's Rake vein. Mining operations continued heavily into the 1970s and early 1980s under figures like John Broadbent, with the extracted spar processed by Laporte Minerals at Cavendish Mill. During its active 20th-century operations, a narrow-gauge railway and small hut were used on the surface to haul ore. Today, while the entrance has partially collapsed requiring a tight crawl, remnants of the past remain inside. Explorers can still find relics such as compressed air pipes, water pipes for dust suppression, and the artificial boulders left over from the TV production. In terms of the mine itself, it runs northwards for 300 feet until it meets the east-west Needham Rake vein and splits into two branches. The eastern branch to the right leads to the New Gates shaft, which most likely predates Hanging Flat. The internal shaft has timbers around it and is set on area of false floor of steel sheet on girders. If you look down the shaft, you can see the lower level of the mine, 10m below. To the left the passage has 6 cross-cut slits heading off to the right. These were driven into the vein from the parallel drive and all come to a dead end at a back-fill. Here the vein was drilled and blasted nearly to surface then the fluorspar was loaded out of the slits. The mine retains the iron pipework that was used to take compressed air to the rock drills. Brown pipes also run through the mine, possibly as part of the ventilation system while smaller-diameter flexible pipes were most likely for water for dust suppression.