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Author	Jim Rieuwerts
AR Joined: 07/11/2007 Location: Knot far from Knotlow in the middle of the Peak District View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Jim Rieuwerts Posted: 05/11/2020 15:17:17 Reply \| Quote Just heard from pwhole that Jim Rieuwerts died this morning; mining history has lost another of its great figures. -- Follow the horses, Johnny my laddie, follow the horses canny lad-oh! IP: 5.102.188.171
Tamarmole Joined: 20/05/2009 Location: Tamar Valley View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Jim Rieuwerts Posted: 05/11/2020 16:00:36 Reply \| Quote One of the greats. IP: 86.187.168.182
pwhole Joined: 22/02/2011 Location: Sheffield and the Peak District View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Jim Rieuwerts Posted: 05/11/2020 18:19:36 Reply \| Quote I'm gutted - he'd practically become my uncle over the last ten years or so as we'd talked so much about mines and caves, and it was a real privilege to actually work with him and produce two books together. His wife Ann also deserves credit for putting up with our endless conversations and us covering the dining table with maps when she was trying to get the tea ready. Only a month ago, ever helpful, he dug me out some scraps of plans of Hazard Mine. Four years ago I took him into Peak Cavern to see Elias Pedley's signature on the wall at the Devil's Staircase which neither of us knew existed until the week before, and he profusely apologised for his actual lumbago slowing us down through the low 'Lumbago Walk', and he had to hold my arm in both directions as his back was so stiff - but he was determined to do it and thoroughly enjoyed the trip, and even gave a short lecture on mining history to a bunch of bemused schoolchildren who happened to be there. A first-class guy with an encyclopedic knowledge, very intelligent, honest and fundamentally decent, and I'm going to miss him hugely. IP: 81.174.241.13
droid Joined: 31/10/2010 Location: Tamworth View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Jim Rieuwerts Posted: 05/11/2020 19:03:54 Reply \| Quote Sorry to hear this. I have many of his books. They are both scholarly and readable, a rare combination. IP: 146.199.103.2
John Lawson Joined: 09/12/2010 Location: Castle Douglas Dumfries & Galloway View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Jim Rieuwerts Posted: 05/11/2020 19:30:21 Reply \| Quote I met and worked with Jim when we were living on the edge of the Peak District. I more friendly to and helpful person you could not meet, once I moved away to Scotland our paths no longer crossed, but he took the time out to get his PhD and continued his research’s into Derbyshire mining. He will be missed by all who knew him! IP: 94.13.20.64
royfellows Joined: 13/06/2007 Location: Great Wyrley near Walsall View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Jim Rieuwerts Posted: 05/11/2020 19:48:19 Reply \| Quote I first met him up at Rotherhope Fell, probably late 1980s, he put up with my endless chatter quite well. Very sad loss. -- My avatar is a poor likeness. IP: 88.108.23.181
historytrog Joined: 02/03/2009 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Jim Rieuwerts Posted: 05/11/2020 20:22:47 Reply \| Quote I am really shocked. He phoned me a month ago and seemed perfectly OK. I was looking forward to telling him of some recent developments in research. Surely, nobody has ever had such a comprehensive knowledge of the ore field as Jim. A huge loss. IP: 80.42.126.205
Down and beyond Joined: 16/03/2019 Location: Northamptonshire View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Jim Rieuwerts Posted: 05/11/2020 20:45:11 Reply \| Quote I didn’t no the gentleman but after reading the comments I would like to say he definitely will be missed by all who knew him or his work . shows us even with this virus around how precious time is to spend well what ever you choose to do -- From the land of the pillar and stall IP: 176.252.118.34
pwhole Joined: 22/02/2011 Location: Sheffield and the Peak District View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Jim Rieuwerts Posted: 05/11/2020 21:02:10 Reply \| Quote historytrog - I spoke with him two weeks ago and he seemed fine then, but last week was not so good, and Ann said he couldn't come to the phone as he was too ill, which has never happened. She sounded concerned for him in a way I hadn't heard before, and it was obvious something was very wrong. I suspect that it was just old age, but I'm guessing, obviously, at the moment. It's very, very sad, but then I'm very, very glad that I knew him for the time I did. We'll do something special for him, for sure. IP: 81.174.241.13
Coggy Joined: 27/12/2008 Location: Birmingham View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Jim Rieuwerts Posted: 05/11/2020 21:36:42 Reply \| Quote A real loss, his knowledge of Peak District mining was second to none. -- if eight out of ten cats all prefer Whiskas Do the other two prefer Lesley Judd ? IP: 92.238.56.87
ttxela Joined: 04/09/2007 Location: Cambs View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Jim Rieuwerts Posted: 06/11/2020 10:03:39 Reply \| Quote Oh no. that is a real shame, what a loss. IP: 195.171.131.2
pwhole Joined: 22/02/2011 Location: Sheffield and the Peak District View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Jim Rieuwerts Posted: 06/11/2020 10:41:44 Reply \| Quote I've just been sent this marvellous photo of the Dynamic Duo by Trevor Ford's daughter, Jan. Epic (click image to open full size image in new window) IP: 81.174.241.13
Moorebooks Joined: 28/11/2007 Location: Newport, Shropshire View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Jim Rieuwerts Posted: 06/11/2020 11:43:30 Reply \| Quote Oh so sad he was real gentleman and enthusiast , I used love our chats . I was also pleased to source a very rare book he wanted for his collection Mike IP: 77.101.213.188
Alasdair Roberts Joined: 06/10/2007 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Jim Rieuwerts Posted: 06/11/2020 20:55:17 Reply \| Quote That is very sad news. I'm sure his legacy will live on through the society and through his fascinating books, which got myself and I'm sure many others interested in lead mining in Derbyshire. IP: 94.7.97.188
Dickie Bird Joined: 20/07/2008 Location: Somewhere near the Steel City (as was) View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Jim Rieuwerts Posted: 07/11/2020 10:00:24 Reply \| Quote The stalwarts of Peak mining are regrettably thinning quickly, Nellie Kirkam – some time back, it is true – Trevor Ford, Paul Deakin whose photographs are magnificent and now dear old Jim. I recall visiting Jim on many occasions when he was working as a soils engineer (?) at a now vanished company at Birdholme, Chesterfield (the name of which escapes me) and having long chats with him during his lunch hour, which tended to be most of the afternoon! . Way back in the days of yore. I haven’t seen him for a long time (at his home was the last time when I gave him a couple of my photos for one of his books) but the picture of him on here clearly shows the ravages of time to which we are all regrettably a party. Mining history has lost another fine and knowledgeable character who was both kind and self effacing. -- 'Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again' [Henri Cartier Bresson] IP: 82.69.55.41

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