Extensive mine that has two adits: a wagon way and a man way.

Wragg’s operations were located at Storrs Bridge at Storrs Bridge Fire Clay works. The site was badly affected by the Sheffield Flood on 11th March, 1864 when Dale Dyke dam burst sending over 700 million gallons of water surging down the Loxley valley. Although towards the bottom of the Loxley Valley, Wragg’s site was badly damaged.

Wragg’s owned their own pot clay mine located up an incline south-west of the factory. Referred to as Top Cabin mine (and sometimes, incorrectly, Storrs mine) in first opened in 1878 and extended deep into the north-facing hill side, and radiated out to three areas of workings, namely under Lea Moor near Dungworth, Storrs village and Storrs Green and finally Storrs Hall and Storrs house. The mine itself was linked to the works via an inclined tramway which used gravity to transport the tubs of fireclay to the works. At the top of the tramway were the main two adits. This operated right up to the 80s before their closure on 16th July, 1982. A southerly adit closed earlier in 1935.

The mine was pretty basic and during the Second World War struggled given many of its miners had been called up to fight in the forces. This was slightly at odds with the fact that the industry was vital to the war effort given its strategic importance to the manufacture of iron and steel.

After the war, the mine’s fortunes went from strength-to-strength as a number of improvements were made to it. In 1947, electricity was introduced into the mine, along with underground haulage and improved access to the main road. This greatly reduced the distances the fireclay had to be shifted in the tramming tubs.

The 1950’s saw a number of large-scale modernisations made to the factory itself. It consisted of 12 beehive kilns and two tunnel kilns, but capacity was expanded in the 1960s when a west plant was added.

The mine closed in the early 1980s, and the factory in the early 1990s. Since then, both factory and mine have been left empty and abandoned.

Open access but risk of bad air and potential collapses.