Jim Worgan shows us around Chatterley Whitfield, former mine and museum.
Chatterley Whitfield is one of the most important sites in the City of Stoke on Trent (The Potteries).
It is one of the most complete former colliery sites in Europe, and has been designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument and a host of buildings on the site have Listed Building status. When the museum closed in 1993 the contents of the museum were auctioned off and the site was abandoned.
However a small group of like minded people interested in preserving the site, it's history and the buildings was founded in the early 2000s and became know as The Friends of Chatterley Whitfield. Over the years that followed 'The Friends' were able to amass a collection of historic maps, books, documents and artefacts from other buildings.(They were left on site after the auction).
'The Friends' have managed to save that documentation.
The Friends have limited access to the site, which unless developed will fall further into disrepair and access to storage facilities will be lost.
Hence the move to a more suitable building off the main site in January 2018, where we would like to develop a Community Resource Centre.
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Well done Jim
Very interesting stuff
Wow - this is such an amazing site. It makes me so sad to see it in such decline. I really hope something can be done to create a plan to gradually turn it around and save it from total collapse - to me history like this is just as important (and more interesting) than any stately home, and had an impact on many more people's lives. I suspect it doesn't have much more time before it becomes too far gone to save. I would love to be involved if I lived closer, but Bristol is quite a long way from Stoke! Good luck, and please do keep posting updates and videos.