This was my eleventh visit to this place but its such a large and complex system that you could visit it twenty times and still not see every area. This is partly because of how slow movement tends to be, what with much of it being very rough uneven ground with all the waste rubble and boulders that have fallen from the roof, the chaotic, maze like tunnel layout tends to be quite confusing also.
I did the four mile walk from the train station at Ladybank in hot sun, when I got to the eastern entrance it was draughting quite strongly and the air coming out of the mine actually felt really cold after the heat, though its not really cold inside, just the temperature contrast. I'd meant to do a longer tour of the central area, to emerge from the western entrance but got carried away removing graffiti (I take a wire brush last few visits and always try to remove some of the paint), I did see some of the flooded areas I'd not found before though and a section where the limestone seam meets a lighter coloured sandstone layer, giving the roof a yellowish look. The water level had dropped, but not a great deal, perhaps about six inches, to significantly drain the flooded section though it would have to drop about twenty or thirty feet, which obviously isn't going to happen without pumping out water. There may be areas where you could see more by wading in to the floodwater though it mostly seem to reach the roof quite quickly due to the downward dip of the seam.
I did the four mile walk from the train station at Ladybank in hot sun, when I got to the eastern entrance it was draughting quite strongly and the air coming out of the mine actually felt really cold after the heat, though its not really cold inside, just the temperature contrast. I'd meant to do a longer tour of the central area, to emerge from the western entrance but got carried away removing graffiti (I take a wire brush last few visits and always try to remove some of the paint), I did see some of the flooded areas I'd not found before though and a section where the limestone seam meets a lighter coloured sandstone layer, giving the roof a yellowish look. The water level had dropped, but not a great deal, perhaps about six inches, to significantly drain the flooded section though it would have to drop about twenty or thirty feet, which obviously isn't going to happen without pumping out water. There may be areas where you could see more by wading in to the floodwater though it mostly seem to reach the roof quite quickly due to the downward dip of the seam.