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01-12-2017, 11:50 AM
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There was a time when three lads decided to walk through these caves to see how far they could get, when they got themselves well and truly lost in the warren this complex of caves proved to be.

Three days later they stumbled out into the open by accident into the waiting arms of a search party who were on the verge of giving up on them.

That incident made the national news.
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01-12-2017, 12:02 PM
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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?
I have absolutely no doubt that fracking will cause a lot of these caves to collapse, with the resultant sink holes.

We experienced these cave-ins naturally some 60 odd years ago, so only the Lord knows what would happen if a load of explosions were set off.
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01-12-2017, 12:11 PM
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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.
I was stationed in Corsham and I remember the caves around Box hill.
Also the depots that were underground that stored munitions were built from these caves so I was told. There were also sub depots around that area.
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01-12-2017, 12:18 PM
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As true then as it is now, Emjay.

I doubt very much that fracking would be allowed in this part of the country.

The entire side of the Bath Valley is one giant honeycomb of caves.
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02-12-2017, 07:33 PM
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The Channel 5 programmes have been fascinating. I wonder about all these gravel pits that have been made into artificial lakes, some are very close to each other with houses on small pieces of land in between. As the water causes erosion perhaps these houses are in danger from beneath.
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03-12-2017, 01:10 AM
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[QUOTE=Yolande;1287051]The Channel 5 programmes have been fascinating. I wonder about all these gravel pits that have been made into artificial lakes, some are very close to each other with houses on small pieces of land in between. As the water causes erosion perhaps these houses are in danger from beneath.[/QUOTE]



Seems very feasible to me, Yolande.

I wonder how those poor people will stand insurance-wise?
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03-12-2017, 02:31 AM
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Hi

Fracking and subsidence and house insurance.

http://www.talkaboutshale.com/index....ses-subsidence

As for old mines, Telford has literally hundreds of old bell pits, early mines worked by one family with no supports, they are found as and when.
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03-12-2017, 09:01 AM
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Here's one that appeared on the Mancunian Way about 2 years ago.

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03-12-2017, 03:23 PM
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Gosh, that's frightening Tpin.
What was the cause of that one, did they say?
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03-12-2017, 03:46 PM
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I'm not sure what excuses they made but....I'm sure, having witnessed shoddy workmanship on the A34, that most problems are caused by inadequate/faulty drainage.
 
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