Pit hills / york road iron works / shafts

Rockefella09 · Post by **Rockefella09** » Tue 25 Oct, 2011 12:08 am

My father who has been living on Torre Crescent has been suffering from a very strange disease which modern medicine hasnt encountered before. We have very recently found we are built on top of the old york road iron works. The shaft is roughly in the shopping area carpark or under the torre lane road. We were just wondering if living above a mine can lead to any series health conditions. Such as, poisonous gas escaping from cracks in the ground. What were the pit hills (black hills) actually made out of, and could they have caused chemical contamination? My father is a builder and has dug many meters into the ground for building a deep cellar and uprouting a 72 year old tree which was planted the year our house was built (1939)Thanks.

The Parksider · Post by **The Parksider** » Tue 25 Oct, 2011 12:36 am

Rockefella09 wrote: My father who has been living on Torre Crescent has been suffering from a very strange disease which modern medicine hasnt encountered before. We have very recently found we are built on top of the old york road iron works. The shaft is roughly in the shopping area carpark or under the torre lane road. We were just wondering if living above a mine can lead to any series health conditions. Such as, poisonous gas escaping from cracks in the ground. What were the pit hills (black hills) actually made out of, and could they have caused chemical contamination? My father is a builder and has dug many meters into the ground for building a deep cellar and uprouting a 72 year old tree which was planted the year our house was built (1939)Thanks. The minerals below the iron works will have been coal, fireclay (silica) and ironstone (silicaceous iron).......None are poisonous indeed you need your iron.....The pit gases would have been carboniferous or hydrogen based. Again nothing poisonous. But they could explode.Build a deep cellar in Derbyshire or cornwall and you may create Radon gas accumulations - leading to myseterious ill health - but not round here.If you have a diagnosis of any health problem then please say what it is, but Yorkshire coal miners tended to be blown up, have physical disability from heavy and vibrating work, or mechanically lost the use of their lungs down to silica and carbon dusts.....

Rockefella09 · Post by **Rockefella09** » Tue 25 Oct, 2011 12:59 am

Okay thanks. Atleast this can be ruled out of what caused the disease.