Hollingwood Common Canal & Mine.

I found some old video footage from the Chesterfield Canal circa 1990 as the area was being opencast.

It shows the Hollingwood common Canal.

Note that it is a later part in brick as this area has been altered at least twice over the years.

The brick may be a repair to the entrance but you can see the silting of the tunnel.

Possibly stone lined and not brick walls looking into the tunnel from the side and part of Staveley Works Canteen before it was demolished.

Silted up from any angle.

This old bridge is no longer there as was said to be unsafe.

I am sure there was a date on this somewhere.

Opencast Operations to remove the last of the surface seams. Looking back to the offices.

The canal was landscaped and dredged as part of the opencast brief.

A.N. Bridgewater 2008.