St Helen's Road - one of most used housing estate routes in Brigg - has developed a pothole in a spot in the carriageway that unwary drivers might hit. If you don't want to dip a wheel, watch out for it as you near Hedgerow Lane when heading towards Bigby Road.
We will report the pothole to Coun Nigel Sherwood, who is the Cabinet Member for Highways and Neighbourhoods at North Lincolnshire Council - the public body responsible for tackling such issues.
We had spotted this hole in the road surface ourselves but it came up in conversation at the Black Bull pub last night - showing others are also concerned about possible damage to vehicles. This prompted us to post a warning.
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All this talk about potholes...and nationally, about sinkholes opening up and swallowing cars....you've seen nothing yet, Nige!
In 1969, as a young shaver, I went along with the Chelsea Pothole Group to Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk (Jacqueline Close)- not the normal focus of speleology......but a new housing estate was gradually collapsing - gable walls had gone; massive holes had appeared in driveways and gardens had slumped down into pits...All a big mystery and very distressing...of the 30 odd families, only 2 remained..
The town's then MP, Eldon Griffith wanted find out what was going on and I took him down a vertical shaft that the CPC had discovered.
Below the surface was a network of chalk-workings in a grid form with passages and chambers.
The aim of the pothole club members was to survey the mine-workings for the local council and others - they were quite extensive.
At first, we thought that they were old Roman flint mines - a bit like Grimes Graves to the north in Norfolk....but we kept find things like bits of electrical cable and rusty cans. There were initial suggestions that such items had been dumped down the filled-in access shafts and had managed to filter down to the workings...However, several items were some distance from such shafts and the wind had certainly not blown them there.
Further research indicated that the chalk-workings had been constructed during WW1 as a ammo store, but it was never charted.
In time, the land (which belonged to the local hospital) was sold to a housing developer...and hence the severe subsidence problems only a few months later...
Then in circa 1979, we lived near Coalbrookdale - the birth-place of the Industrial Revolution - Shropshire.
My son was playing footie in his junior school team, refereeded by the head - a Capt Mainwaring look-a-like.
Someone shouted that the ball had disappeared....and then the land about the place where the ball was last seen also disappeared.
Capt Mainwaring did a quick head count - fortunately all the youngster were accounted for.
It turned out to be an unmapped coal-mine shaft collapsing - until about 1860 anyone could sink a mine without informing the local surveyor.
The school's footie-field was closed to the public....but for week's afterwards the head was frequently heard muttering that the Council owed the school money for the lost ball!
Meanwhile, Coalbrookdale and the nearby Ironbridge have been recognised as World Heritage Sites - but if you go there - just be careful were you tread..and if you just happen to find a footie-ball, well......
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