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News Letter May 2018 www.nmrs.org.uk May 2018 www.nmrs.org.uk Please note that the From your President deadline for inclusion in the August 2018 riting this before the deadline for our May newsletter and therefore before our AGM Newsletter is the 24th this should be my last newsletter contribution as President. James Cleland B. Sc, July. 2018. WPh. D, F I Corr, C. Eng, FIMM has been proposed by our Committee to that position and should now have been ratified by the members present. I would like to take this opportunity In This Issue. to thank all of our Committee and members for all their help and support over the last seven Page. years and wish James every success as our Society continues to move forward. Many of you 1. From your President. will already know him from his attendance at our indoor meetings, his interesting presentation 2. Forthcoming events. at one of them and also for being one of our most travelled members re our meets. Other NAMHO 2018. positions on Committee remain unchanged. 3. Bert Draycott. NMRS Facebook. I would also like to wish Bernard Bond a speedy recovery from recent surgery. This prevented Latest Issue of Arcive. him from leading his planned walk after the AGM. A big thank you to Matthew Hatton who 4. New Book Reviews. stepped in at the last minute. 5. Women/Girls. Metal mines. Elsewhere in this newsletter you will find a flyer re the North Pennine Mineral Expo up in Country Diary. Weardale this summer. If in the area please come along and introduce yourself to Rex and 6. Church of England. myself who will be representing our Society at this event. We will have some of our publica- Giant Magnet Mining. tions for sale there but if you want to save on postage you can always pre-order and collect at 7. What is Metallurgical Coal? the event. Last year was a real family event with an excellent atmosphere and as then I will be New Legislation. providing some activities for the children. 8. Stop! Opencast in County Durham. The following Saturday Rex and I are hosting a Garage Book Sale prior to Graham`s meet. 9. Fred Dibnah. Heritage centre. We are very grateful for the donations of books we receive at NMRS and appreciate it when 8m Quarry Development. donors allow us to sell duplicates to further the work of our Society. A few of these duplicates 10. Jersey’s Quarrying history. will be listed in our newsletter each quarter and I am pleased with the response received so far. 13. Weardale day out. If you have any “wants” please let me know in case I can help. Trevor Ford. Memorial. N. Ireland Gold search. The Heritage Open Days this year will be spread over two weeks, 6th-9th September and 13th 14. Esqair Mwyn Mine. -16th September, giving more flexibility to visitors and heritage attractions who plan their 16. Curling Stones. openings. St. Lambertus Church. For those of you with an interest in Queen Street Mill in Harle Skye, Burnley you will be 17. Coal/Business. pleased to know that L.C.C. have decided to reopen it on Saturday 7th July. It will then be open Cleveland Museam. on a Friday, Saturday and Sunday until the end of October. This is a two year scheme, with it Burnley's Mining Memorial. reopening next Easter. A care and maintenance scheme has been in place since closure while 18. “GIFS” mining cycle. L.C.C. continue to explore options to secure its long term sustainability. This is also going to 19. Advantaged Fuel? be extended to make sure the building and collections are properly cared for during the times 20. Galmoy. North Kilkenny. of the year when it is closed. Port Talbot Coal Mine. 21. War Graves Head Stones. You may have heard about the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) coming 23. Coal Mine renewable battery. into effect on May 25th, 2018 and which we must all now be compliant with. At NMRS we NMRS book sales. have always been careful to protect your information and we never pass it on to third parties – 24. Help! Information required. reclaiming gift aid is an exception. This new regulation allows you to have control over it too and allows you to decide what information we have. Obviously we need certain data to enable Editor. Graham Topping our Society to function and provide you, the member, with membership services, publication services & enquiries utilising our internal system. E-mail address (unless accessing our news- Chapel Lodge.Chapel Lane. letters is optional) as is telephone number. In preparation for the GDPR, we are contacting our West Bradford. Clitheroe. membership, via an insert in this newsletter, to give your consent to process the data you give Lancs. BB7 4SN. Tel:- us on that form in order to provide you with your membership benefits. Please note that 07973905883. Email:- failure to complete the form and return it to our membership secretary, will mean that [email protected] we can no longer contact you legally, and your membership will cease. The form, once completed and signed can either be posted or if you have the facility it can be emailed to our membership secretary. In both cases it must be signed. Also please note all PayPal transac- Page 1 NMRS - Newsletter May 2018 tions are additionally subject to the PayPal privacy policy. We will be producing a new Privacy Policy which Society members will NAMHO Conference 2018 be able to access when in place. You will also notice slight “Mines, Mining and Miners of the Forest of Dean: “ changes in membership renewals for 2019 taking into account the A law unto themselves” 1st to 3rd June 2018, Dean Field Studies GDPR. Centre, Parkend near Lydney, Gloucestershire The lecture pro- I would like to welcome the following new members gramme for the conference is based on the local area and will David Chadwick -Cornwall bring together recent research. Proceedings will be published Phil Devit - Derby after the conference. There will be 42 underground trips, four Stephen Dickinson - Ambleside guided surface trips and a series of self-guided walks. A video Robin Ellis - Sheffield suite, showing mining related videos and DVDs, will run parallel John Evans - Wanlockhead to the lecture programme; and there will be training activities Mr & Mrs Mark Green - Plymouth using the facilities at the venue. On Saturday evening there will Mr K Johnson - Scarborough be a boar roast and live music. Local attractions include the Forest Richard Neilson - Penrith of Dean Railway, Clearwell Caves, Hopewell Colliery and the Mark Odjers - Aberdeen Dean Heritage Centre. Bookings can be made at Sam Roberts - Ilkley https://www.namho2018.info/ John Robinson - Milton Keyne Penny Rigg Mill Laura Robinson - Plymouth Cumbria Amenity Trust Mining Heritage Society report that Ian Senior - Sale H.L.F. money has been used to re-build walls and replace lintels Linda Smith - Stockton-on-Tees at Penny Rigg Mill, Coniston. Upper Bonsor Mill has been Richard Sutton - Nottingham consolidated; and archive research has been done for both sites James Towill - Berwickshire and publication of results is expected. Kevin Walsh - Preston Brook Barry & Tanya Welch -Torquay Nenthead Nenthead Mines Conservation Society has replaced supports in Barbara Sutcliffe Carrs Mine, and is planning to take over a set of jigs presently lying at Silverband Mine. Radstock Museum Forthcoming Events Radstock Museum has a new virtual reality attraction to take visitors on a ride into Radstock Mines with descent in a cage, May 12th: Wensleydale, Wet Grooves Area. travel in a coal truck viewing miners at the coalface; and seeing We are promised an interesting and varied day out with the some miners escaping from a rock-fall and others racing to escape possibility of a short underground excursion so please bring the from water from a disused flooded tunnel. appropriate equipment. Details of the meeting place are still not Sallie Bassham. finalised. Leader: Charles Lamb. Contact Mick Cooke 01282 427428 or [email protected] June 9th: The Collieries and Geology of West Calderdale. Meet 10.00am at Walsden Library, Rochdale Road, Todmorden OL14 7SN. A moderate walk of 4/6 hours over good ground looking at the abandoned Foul Clough Colliery, and the Temper- lays Pipe Works Collieries. Bring lunch and stout footwear. Lead- er Graham Topping: 07973905883 or [email protected] Saturday and Sunday 14th/15th July: North of England Mineral Expo, St Johns Chapel, Weardale. Sunday July 15th: Rampgill Mine, Nenthead: Mod. underground with some wet sections and ladder climbing. Maybe advisable to carry lunch. Meet 10.30am at Nenthead Car Park. Leader will be from the Heritage Centre. Contact Mick Cooke: 01282 427428 or [email protected] Saturday 21st July: 10.30 to 12.30, Garage Book Sale at The Old Manse, 93 Halifax Rd. Nelson, 01282 614615 or [email protected] Following the sale, Graham Topping will lead a short (approx. 2 hrs flat easy walk) to Aspen Colliery, Oswaldtwistle. Meet Church railway station, 70 Market St. Church BB50DP. Tel or text Gra- ham 07973905883 or [email protected] It is with regret that I have to announce that the May meet to Wensleydale has been cancelled. Mick Cooke Page 2 NMRS - Newsletter May 2018 which I feel is a crying shame. Let’s hope that this piece of oral Bert Draycott mining history is re-released soon. x Coal Miner, Pit Deputy, World Champion Spoons Player, folk singer and raconteur of Fishburn, Co. Durham. Bert There are several movie clips of Bert Draycott on You Tube I EDraycott died on 29th Sept.
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