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Sink hole terror... 20 miles up the road!
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Author:  Jon [ Mon Feb 03, 2014 1:42 am ]
Post subject:  Sink hole terror... 20 miles up the road!
I've seen amazing pix on the next of sink holes all over the world... this one is a bit close to home... High Wycome! :o

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-be ... s-26010192
Author:  Kremmen [ Mon Feb 03, 2014 8:48 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Sink hole terror... 20 miles up the road!
:shock:

I'll bet a mixture of old mining works and the recent rainfall has had a hand in this ?
Author:  Father Ted [ Mon Feb 03, 2014 9:57 am ]
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Altogether now ! Think one word,......... Hayes !

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Author:  Kremmen [ Mon Feb 03, 2014 12:25 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Sink hole terror... 20 miles up the road!
Have we got any old mine workings ?
Author:  Jon [ Mon Feb 03, 2014 8:03 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Sink hole terror... 20 miles up the road!
Has High Wycombe?
Author:  Robongar [ Mon Feb 03, 2014 9:11 pm ]
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Jon wrote:
Has High Wycombe?



If not, got a good starter :roll:
Author:  SOT [ Mon Feb 03, 2014 11:28 pm ]
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Pinner has huge chalk mines. I was told it extended under a School, shops and scores if not hundreds of houses on top, but I have just found a website which disputes that

I went down the mine some years back (bloody hard work when carrying a large professional video camera!) and it is vast. You can still see the black marks on the roof from miner's candles when the mine was a low tunnel. In subsequent years they just kept digging to leave 24ft high ceilings & a vast labyrinth of tunnels

It has been subject to numerous collapses over the years, but I am not aware of any sink holes

http://www.tomwhiteley.info/pinner-chalk-mine/
Author:  Robongar [ Mon Feb 03, 2014 11:35 pm ]
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Jon wrote:
Has High Wycombe?



There used to be a lot of talk, of underground bunkers in and around High Wycombe. I believe they were associated with the "Amreican air base".
Author:  Kremmen [ Tue Feb 04, 2014 8:38 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Sink hole terror... 20 miles up the road!
According to the news yesterday it wasn't a mine working but clay over chalk and the recent heavy rainfall that is dissolving the chalk layer :o
Author:  vlad the impailer [ Tue Feb 04, 2014 9:48 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Sink hole terror... 20 miles up the road!
SOT,i have been down there as well,despite being scared of heights and enclosed spaces,such a fasinating place
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