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| Topic: Should we worry yet? | |
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Forum: Midlands
Posted: 18/05/2013 20:53:58
Subject: Should we worry yet?
[quote="owd git"][quote="AR"]I think the Duchy of Lancaster might have something to say about them selling it as coming with the mineral rights, rights to _some_ of the minerals more like.... |
| Topic: Mining term: Galloway | |
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Forum: General Chat Posted: 18/05/2013 20:40:49 Subject: Mining term: Galloway I don't know whether they've put that image online or not, but it's in "Life and Work of the Northern Leadminer" and "Lead and Life at Kilhope" |
| Topic: Should we worry yet? | |
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Forum: Midlands
Posted: 17/05/2013 21:55:54
Subject: Should we worry yet?
I think the Duchy of Lancaster might have something to say about them selling it as coming with the mineral rights, rights to _some_ of the minerals more like.... Dunno about the quartz, th |
| Topic: Toilet mine | |
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Forum: General Chat Posted: 17/05/2013 21:51:02 Subject: Toilet mine Mayhap so, but it was still a surprise to see it there in the barmaster's records! :lol: |
| Topic: Toilet mine | |
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Forum: General Chat Posted: 17/05/2013 21:35:51 Subject: Toilet mine There was a mine called "Shithole" recorded at Winster in the 1740s... :ohmygod: |
| Topic: Mining term: Galloway | |
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Forum: General Chat Posted: 17/05/2013 21:33:08 Subject: Mining term: Galloway It's not just a miner's but general northern term for a pony, particularly the large, strong breed now called the Dales but originating in a now-vanished type known as the Galloway or Scotch Galloway |
| Topic: Potash mine to hit visitor numbers by 15%! | |
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Forum: North East England Posted: 17/05/2013 15:50:23 Subject: Potash mine to hit visitor numbers by 15%! Now I've had a better look, it's the usual thing - all the nuances and qualifiers in the actual text are stripped out in the summary, which of course is the only bit the meeja can be bothered to read |
| Topic: Thermal water - Matlock Bath | |
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Forum: Midlands Posted: 17/05/2013 12:52:52 Subject: Thermal water - Matlock Bath Just a suggestion, try formally asking PDMHS to publish it so that the request goes to council and gets discussed? |
| Topic: Potash mine to hit visitor numbers by 15%! | |
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Forum: North East England
Posted: 17/05/2013 12:22:55
Subject: Potash mine to hit visitor numbers by 15%!
[quote="rikj"]If anyone wants to lose the will to live then the whole report is here: http://www.northyorkmoors.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/336123/Qa-Research-Report-Impact-on-Touris |
| Topic: Potash mine to hit visitor numbers by 15%! | |
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Forum: North East England
Posted: 16/05/2013 20:59:30
Subject: Potash mine to hit visitor numbers by 15%!
[quote="Peter Burgess"]Do the large quarries in the Peak District put visitors off?[/quote] Strictly speaking, most of the big quarries are outside of the park and its boundaries were delib |
| Topic: Potash mine to hit visitor numbers by 15%! | |
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Forum: North East England
Posted: 16/05/2013 09:43:58
Subject: Potash mine to hit visitor numbers by 15%!
Think I might phone my parents and see what's actually being said locally about the proposal, rather than what's getting into the press.... As Rodel quite rightly points out, the Ruswarp ro |
| Topic: Potash mine to hit visitor numbers by 15%! | |
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Forum: North East England Posted: 16/05/2013 08:32:09 Subject: Potash mine to hit visitor numbers by 15%! The thing that strikes me is that if the NYM park authority turn it down on the ground of this alleged tourism hit, Sirius will probably go to appeal at which point the figures will get pulled apart, |
| Topic: Potash mine to hit visitor numbers by 15%! | |
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Forum: North East England Posted: 15/05/2013 20:29:56 Subject: Potash mine to hit visitor numbers by 15%! Complete crap, are they really suggesting people won't visit Whitby, Bay, or Goathland because of what's going on in the middle of a plantation well out of they way of the main tourist routes? |
| Topic: Bargain screwgates from Bernies | |
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Forum: SRT Equipment & Training Posted: 14/05/2013 08:28:46 Subject: Bargain screwgates from Bernies Go outdoors do these individually for about six quid with one of their discount cards, and I've got quite a few. They do the job just fine as far as I'm concerned ;D |
| Topic: Pre-19th Century Mine Carts | |
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Forum: General Chat Posted: 01/05/2013 10:42:22 Subject: Pre-19th Century Mine Carts [quote="RJV"]He does go on to describe an early long, narrow tub in Barneycraig which sounds very much like the tub in Smallcleugh towards the end of the Middleceugh 2nd Sun Vein, just past the point |
| Topic: Old Olham lamps wanted | |
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Forum: General Chat Posted: 24/04/2013 10:42:34 Subject: Old Olham lamps wanted Have you contacted Phil Brown at Caving Supplies? He still had a load in the back room last time I was in the shop. |
| Topic: Boulby on the BBC | |
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Forum: North East England Posted: 24/04/2013 09:11:48 Subject: Boulby on the BBC Spotted this on the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22263418 |
| Topic: Coal Mine fatality Yniscedwyn Colliery | |
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Forum: Mining People & Communities
Posted: 23/04/2013 09:48:48
Subject: Coal Mine fatality Yniscedwyn Colliery
Contact the Mines Inspectorate in the first instance to see what records they have regarding the accident: http://www.hse.gov.uk/mining/contacts.htm |
| Topic: Victorian trip - 2013 | |
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Forum: General Chat Posted: 23/04/2013 08:19:31 Subject: Victorian trip - 2013 Spike? :lol: |
| Topic: Victorian trip - 2013 | |
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Forum: General Chat
Posted: 22/04/2013 12:01:07
Subject: Victorian trip - 2013
Maybe we should do one up at Nent one time, then I can bring a pony, since we own the authentic breed for tramming a North Pennine mine! I'm still finding bits of wax on the dog..... ;( |
| Topic: Victorian trip - 2013 | |
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Forum: General Chat Posted: 21/04/2013 20:59:38 Subject: Victorian trip - 2013 It was certainly very, very different seeing the mine by lantern and candle light - now I understand why miners were quite happy to climb down a couple of hundred feet, they couldn't see more than ten |
| Topic: Victorian trip - 2013 | |
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Forum: General Chat
Posted: 19/04/2013 21:05:31
Subject: Victorian trip - 2013
Well, I've got the bradda, some beer, and irons on the clogs so I'm all ready to go. Question for anyone who's been up Carrock way recently and called in at Caldbeck - are the clog makers t |
| Topic: Victorian trip - 2013 | |
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Forum: General Chat Posted: 15/04/2013 21:24:55 Subject: Victorian trip - 2013 I'm quite happy to bring some proper miner's drink with me (i.e. ale) and maybe even share it, though unfortunately I won't be able to go down to Wirksworth and get some Owd Man Ale before the trip. I |
| Topic: Victorian trip - 2013 | |
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Forum: General Chat Posted: 15/04/2013 10:36:29 Subject: Victorian trip - 2013 Since Alderley is in Cheshire, you could do something cheesy? I'll eat most things provided they don't contain cucumbers or mayonnaise and I'm bringing Ted the Terrierist along, who will eat just abou |
| Topic: Victorian trip - 2013 | |
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Forum: General Chat Posted: 13/04/2013 08:42:47 Subject: Victorian trip - 2013 Quick bump on this as it's next weekend.... |
| Topic: Afternoon | |
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Forum: General Chat Posted: 09/04/2013 14:52:46 Subject: Afternoon Getting hold of a copy of Caves of the Peak District is probably your best bet (check the DCA website for stockists, or buy online from Mike Moore), it's not absolutely comprehensive but it's a good g |
| Topic: Drakelow - Postponed | |
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Forum: Events Posted: 23/03/2013 15:00:14 Subject: Drakelow - Postponed Absolutely - round here most roads are impassable unles you're driving a tractor, and even then it's a struggle. I'm just glad we managed to get all our ponies to within walking distance of home yest |
| Topic: US Army Landfill in cornwall. | |
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Forum: South West England Posted: 18/03/2013 08:30:55 Subject: US Army Landfill in cornwall. [quote="ICLOK"]Apparently there are 200 Spitfires buried in a local coal mine up here!!!! Not really... Duh but there are Merlin Engine bits a plenty in certain filled in quarries in the locale ;)[/qu |
| Topic: Funny video (gave me ideas!) | |
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Forum: General Chat Posted: 16/03/2013 21:31:55 Subject: Funny video (gave me ideas!) There used to be a rather sorry-looking one in the upper entrance of Lords and Ladies mine.... |
| Topic: Pit head gear and winding engines | |
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Forum: General Chat Posted: 11/03/2013 09:50:50 Subject: Pit head gear and winding engines Scratch the Bradwell one from the list, it's gone.... :( |
| Topic: Pit head gear and winding engines | |
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Forum: General Chat Posted: 10/03/2013 20:28:50 Subject: Pit head gear and winding engines ... and Long Rake |
| Topic: Iron mine, Wombwell, Barnsley, S Yorkshire | |
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Forum: Hello, I'm new around here... Posted: 06/03/2013 15:05:58 Subject: Iron mine, Wombwell, Barnsley, S Yorkshire I couldn't say for certain, but there has been a lot of ironstone mining in the past around the outcrop of the coal measures in Derbyshire and Yorkshire, so it's quite likely there was an ironstone mi |
| Topic: Butterley Engineering... The Scrapman Cometh | |
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Forum: Midlands Posted: 27/02/2013 12:13:27 Subject: Butterley Engineering... The Scrapman Cometh That bit basically means you can remove or replace the modern surfaces over the scheduled bits without needing monument consent to do so, but any sort of excavation or work going below the excluded su |
| Topic: The first use of gunpowder in mining | |
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Forum: Mining Methods & Techniques Posted: 23/02/2013 22:53:20 Subject: The first use of gunpowder in mining So was that what got you into the Eldon? :lol: |
| Topic: The first use of gunpowder in mining | |
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Forum: Mining Methods & Techniques
Posted: 19/02/2013 14:07:45
Subject: The first use of gunpowder in mining
[quote="dotty"]Ecton in the eighteenth C but Elton from earlier and it turns out to be part of a Royal Duchy.[/quote] No, the powder use at Ecton is seventeenth century, there are records o |
| Topic: The first use of gunpowder in mining | |
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Forum: Mining Methods & Techniques
Posted: 18/02/2013 20:59:21
Subject: The first use of gunpowder in mining
This article covers the early powder use at Ecton hill: http://www.pdmhs.com/PDFs/ScannedBulletinArticles/Bulletin%2013-4%20-%20Early%20Use%20of%20%20Gunpowder%20in%20the%20Peak%20Distric.pdf The |
| Topic: Research Assessment?s -Your Comments Please | |
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Forum: General Chat Posted: 18/02/2013 14:53:20 Subject: Research Assessment?s -Your Comments Please I think you may be mixing up listing and scheduling here, although they are both a form of legal protection, in practice they are very different beasts. Listing is essentially concerned with the archi |
| Topic: Research Assessment?s -Your Comments Please | |
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Forum: General Chat Posted: 18/02/2013 09:30:54 Subject: Research Assessment?s -Your Comments Please [quote="lozz"]Ok...Maybe I don't understand what's going on here all I was trying to say was that if EH were any good they would have listed the buildings at Robo's side at South Crofty including the |
| Topic: Research Assessment?s -Your Comments Please | |
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Forum: General Chat Posted: 17/02/2013 21:25:36 Subject: Research Assessment?s -Your Comments Please [quote="lozz"]"When completed, the document will help English Heritage to understand where further research may be needed. It will also help Planning Authorities to understand the significance of mine |
| Topic: Masson Hill surveys. | |
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Forum: Midlands Posted: 17/02/2013 21:16:42 Subject: Masson Hill surveys. I've got marking exactly where the quarry face is on that survey on my to-do list, but that's probably a summer evening job when I can see the remains of Beck shaft in the face.... |
| Topic: Masson Hill surveys. | |
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Forum: Midlands Posted: 17/02/2013 12:10:45 Subject: Masson Hill surveys. I thought that area was included in the Flindall & Hayes survey from Bulletin 8:2? |
| Topic: Hi all, I'm in little old Tamworth. | |
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Forum: Hello, I'm new around here... Posted: 15/02/2013 12:40:08 Subject: Hi all, I'm in little old Tamworth. Well, there's the Peak District up the other end of the A515 which has more lead mines that you can shake a stick at.... |
| Topic: FOR SALE white crystal cane sugar | |
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Forum: For Sale! (and wanted / for swap)
Posted: 15/02/2013 10:05:07
Subject: FOR SALE white crystal cane sugar
Not interested, but how's about some of this? [fpic]Personal-Album-431-Image-54133[/fpic] |
| Topic: Time Team Coniston Copper Mines | |
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Forum: North West England
Posted: 10/02/2013 09:09:44
Subject: Time Team Coniston Copper Mines
As stamps aren't something that got used much in Derbyshire, I can't claim to know a great deal about them and was just going by the photos in Gerrard's book on the early tin industry as t |
| Topic: BCA insurance green cards 2013 | |
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Forum: General Chat Posted: 07/02/2013 14:41:10 Subject: BCA insurance green cards 2013 Thanks for reminding me Simon, I need to renew... :-[ |
| Topic: Time Team Coniston Copper Mines | |
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Forum: North West England Posted: 06/02/2013 08:31:02 Subject: Time Team Coniston Copper Mines Personally, I'd be out and about looking for the mortar stones if I was trying to find evidence of a stamp mill up there! |
| Topic: The Sweet Smell of Penarth Mine | |
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Forum: North Wales
Posted: 25/01/2013 18:58:41
Subject: The Sweet Smell of Penarth Mine
[quote="Ian A"] I would best describe it as a subtle, sweet "parma voilets" aroma but I have no clue what it is .... Anyone any ideas ? [/quote] Well... Jessop's 1675 p |
| Topic: Wanted....T6 Oldham battery | |
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Forum: Lamps & Lighting Posted: 24/01/2013 19:46:51 Subject: Wanted....T6 Oldham battery For your ultrabeast lamp, I presume? Try contacting Caving Supplies in Buxton for starters, if anyone's got a decent one for sale it's likely to be Phil Brown! |
| Topic: Victorian trip - 2013 | |
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Forum: General Chat Posted: 24/01/2013 09:57:49 Subject: Victorian trip - 2013 I'll bag that date on the calendar before SWMBO does, also gives me time to dig my clogs out and put irons and hobnails on them, might see if I can borrow Whacker's bradda and tools as well.... |
| Topic: I want to go down a mine/ cave BUT | |
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Forum: General Chat Posted: 23/01/2013 12:05:03 Subject: I want to go down a mine/ cave BUT Mouldridge is on access land, sopark at Pikehall, cross the road (probably the most dangerous part of the whole trip!) and walk down the valley, access through the obvious adit entrance. |
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