I used to play down here as a kid in 1990s going inside orgreave hall when it was boarded up and abandoned and carry on down the lane to play in the scrap yard that used to be there , on the old mine site the ground was all like really sticky clay / mud , me and a mate sunk in it upto our waist and luckily a dog walker managed to pull us out after been stuck for hours we was very lucky , but was a fun place to play, shame it's all gone

Just come across this video well done mate,I didn't realize all its history,and well done Keith for saving just a little bit of it , looking forward to any new updates 👍

@chriswright8929

3 жыл бұрын

@@londondeshawn5742 knobhead,wots that got to do with this?

I know where the stone slate roof went because I removed it and took it to a ncb yard at chapletown. When we removed all the roof stone we covered all the roof with plastic, the oak beams were massive and charred from the fires set by vandals.. The idea then was the hall was to be demolished and rebuilt after the site was reclaimed , I think it was open cast mined on that site shortly after. The stone staircase and ballustrade outside was a beautiful thing, no doubt worth a fortune, that must be intact somewhere. By the way, some of the roof slates were as big as a gravestone and very heavy to slide down off the roof.

@History0114

3 жыл бұрын

Hi! Thanks ever so much for your comment. Did you take any pictures by any chance? and know where any of it ended up. A part 2 of this is in the works and this could play a big part

Congratulations on such an excellent, interesting and moving presentation. What has happened to those historic buildings is tantamount to vandalism. I truly admire your laudable efforts in ensuring these places are not totally lost or indeed forgotten.

@zaptabby

2 жыл бұрын

I totally agree, no respect to history and culture!

I used to come here when it was a pub. When I worked at a local factory, we would come here for lunch. It was fab.💙

Great video but Fred Scott did most of the building on the clock tower.

Brilliant, can remember walking past the hall with my dog, next day it was gone. It was done very quickly and at night and had a listed status.

I worked at Orgreave Coke Ovens from 1966 to 1972. Part of Rotherwood Hall was used as offices, the ground floor was the social club for the coking plant. There was a full size billiard table and a dart board and we met there one evening during the week for socialising and a pie and pea supper. The plant manager and his family were still resident there during that time.

Brilliant! Really enjoyed that.

Very intresting vidio...

Great video, I visit the places on here almost every day and I always wondered what the pile of rocks were at the bottom football pitch. I also remember the Rotherwood as i used to walk past it every day to get to Henry Boots at the bottom next to the old car scrap yard.

Hi, I live in part of Anston Hall and although we've visited the rotherham archives we are unable to find out a great deal about the conversion in the 50s from the hall as it was to the individual residences it is now. I dont suppose you have any information? - best wishes Nick

Fascinating, really interesting story and well put together. (If you need the assistance of a metal detectorist let me know)

Great ...brings back memories early eighties worked in fotting shop a chemical plant 3 us went ev dinner time a game snooker and 3 pints then back to work to use all dangerous machines and tools ..health safery have a fit iff they saw we got up too lol

A very high steep hill? No.to an outsider from outside of Yorkshire it will seem a steep hill.but....the Yorkshire dales,fells,and North York Moors,are all familiar with Sheffield and Rotherham folk.

My auntie worked for the owners

So I have a confession....around 1993 (?) I'm not so sure of the year to be honest, might have been '92 or '94. Myself and a bunch of friends entered Orgreave Hall (as we had done many times before). We would have been 11 or 12 I believe. As young lads we would go wondering over the old slag heap from the former Oregreave pit and explore the immediate area, including the boarded up remains of Orgreave Hall. It was a dry, hot summer and, as we had done previously, we climbed up the side of the building onto the flat roof section, using a drain pipe (from memory) to shimmy our way up. Once there, an unboarded window beckoned us inside to explore. On this occasion we would venture much deeper into the building and so being explorers we had improvised fire torches (large branches with cloth wrapped on the ends to act as lights). We made our way up into the roof of the building and explored, it was pretty creepy as you can imagine. Eventually myself and another boy exited the building before the others, we waited for them at ground level. After a few minutes we heard panicked shouting and cries of pass the water (we had a small bottle of water with us). Apparently one of the others had tried to throw out one of our torches through the crumbled roof as it was getting too hot to hold. It landed in the raftors and with the dry weather, it became clear within seconds we wouldn't be able to put it out. We panicked and ran home as fast we could, later climbing onto the slag heap to see the fire engines putting out the blaze. It was entirely accidental but I felt so guilty at what we had done, I only ever went back a few years later. It used to be a magical place for us, lost to time and on a road leading to nowhere now the pit was closed. We'd go conker picking in its' grounds in September. Anyway, that's my memory of the place, and my confession...