Chatterley Whitfield

The sad remains of Chatterley Whitfield Colliery in North Staffordshire which closed in 1976 and was subsequently operated as a mining museum until that failed in 1993. There are four headgears surviving on this site. They are, seen are, from the left, Winstanley, Institute, Platt, and Hesketh shafts. I suspect that it will all fall down eventually as nothing useful seems to be being done to conserve the site. The local council has complete paranoia about health and safety, far beyond what is sensible in my opinion, and will not allow visitors on the rare open days to see anything much of interest. Meanwhile there is a Friends group for the site, but they have never yet answered any of my emails and do not seem interested in actually gaining support from anyone outside their own closed circle. All-in-all a sad state of affairs.