This was a brilliant September day and Strollers both on foot and on bike(can you stroll by bike?)converged on this deeply rural privately owned coal mine for a guided tour (above) and tea and cakes. Pictured left is the deep mine shaft, once bricked up at the request of the police to deter use as a convenient dropping off point for disposing of bodies, we learned,and now reopened and the subject of a strangely hypnotic video.