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01-12-2017, 01:01 AM
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Sink Holes

Anyone see the programme about these sink holes?

Bloomin' frightening stuff.
They say a lot of them are because of old mining work.
One suddenly opened up in someone's garden, right on the same spot his children had been playing the day before.
It was over 10 metres deep! You wouldn't stand a chance of getting out of there without help would you.

In one place, they had actually built a school over a load of mines - can you believe that??? They all started to collapse and the school had to be closed.

They say most of us wouldn't even know they are standing right over a sink hole until the ground suddenly disappears.

I really do believe the problem will get rapidly worse where they do fracking, and how many people's house insurance covers sink holes!
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01-12-2017, 04:07 AM
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With all the bad luck you've had recently I half expected one had appeared in your garden.
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01-12-2017, 10:12 AM
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In Perranporth Cornwall I well remember some of the sand dunes being roped off . What had happened is the pit props in the tin mines had rotted and given way causing the mine tunnels to collapse causing big holes in the dunes. Not exactly the same as sink holes but on the same theme
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01-12-2017, 11:16 AM
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Yes frightening stuff. That one where they keep showing with people going into one. Nasty.
I wonder how I can find out if I am in danger, but who knows what lies beneath ones home.
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01-12-2017, 11:21 AM
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Are these disused shafts not filled in once work has finished?
Surely they don't just put a big 'lid' on them and leave the shaft open underneath?

Bazza, my brother lives in Devon and he said Cornwall is like a big kitchen sieve underground, full of holes like honeycomb.

Won't fracking do the same?
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01-12-2017, 11:21 AM
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When I lived in SE London, there was a crack in the stairwell up to my flat. After getting the council involved, it was decided that the movement had stopped so nothing was done about it.

A good twenty years later, the road outside the flats collapsed leaving a 20ft deep hole. Luckily, no one was hurt.
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01-12-2017, 11:40 AM
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In Wiltshire, where I lived as a boy, I was able to walk some three miles underground, through abandoned mines, from Quarry Hill to Corsham, where they quarried for Bath-stone.

A great place to grow up.
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01-12-2017, 11:42 AM
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Originally Posted by Fogey ->
In Wiltshire, where I lived as a boy, I was able to walk some three miles underground, through abandoned mines, from Quarry Hill to Corsham, where they quarried for Bath-stone.

A great place to grow up.

So mines are not filled in after their working life is over?
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01-12-2017, 11:45 AM
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They weren't at the time, although I did notice the quarries that led to the entrance of these man-made caves had been turned into landfill.
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01-12-2017, 11:48 AM
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Originally Posted by Fogey ->
They weren't at the time, although I did notice the quarries that led to the entrance of these man-made caves had been turned into landfill.


I cann hardly believe that, Fogey.
So now, through man's earlier stupidity, people are losing their homes and businesses to sink holes!

No one has answered yet as to whether fracking will do the same?
 
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