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August 2015 Editor www.nmrs.org.uk August 2015 www.nmrs.org.uk Presidents jottings As I write this we have been enjoying a period of mostly if you are prepared to offer one. Don`t forget they settled weather which has benefitted some of our meets, should be no more than 15 minutes long. We will although the first of the year was a case of dodging have a computer and projector available. Regarding showers! We are very appreciative of all who lead our book sales we will also have some 1” maps available meets which have been very varied this year. Hopefully and some large rolled up 6” OS maps, thanks to a there should be reports of them elsewhere in our News- donation. As usual I will be bringing some second letter. Regarding Rogerley, the Americans have con- hand BMs along. If there are any in particular you firmed that subject to their return next year, they will be are after please let me know and if they are available very pleased to see our members again so I am already I will bring them along for you. There will also be a taking provisional bookings for this event. If you would good assortment of other mining related books as like to lead a meet in 2016 please contact Sallie Bassham well as PDHMS bulletins. Don`t forget to bring your wallets and cheque books! Our Autumn meeting takes place on 24th October at Gisburn Festival Hall, 5 Burnley Road, Gisburn , Lancs BB7 4T, NGR SD 828 487. Book sales commence at 11.30 followed by a buffet lunch at 12.00 after which our general business meeting and presentations will take place. Please note pre-booking is essential for lunch and please let us know if a vegetarian option is required. It would help our caterer if bookings are made by October At a recent event in Ingleton Bernard Bond`s dis- 10th.These can be made by e-mailing me at play of artefacts associated with the Ingeleton Coal- [email protected] or by phoning 01282 field was very popular as was to a lesser extent our 614615 (before 9pm please) where a message can be left NMRS display! However it was to Bernard that should we be out. Members` presentations are an inte- people flocked and he sold quite a few of the popu- gral part of our Autumn meeting so please let me know Editor Contents Rob Needham Society news ………………………….….…..1 Pike House, George Lane, Littledean, Glos. Library news ………………………….….…..3 GL14 3LL Visit reports …………………………….……4 tel.:- 01594 823487 Ingleton Exhibition ………………..….…7 email:- [email protected] NAMHO Conference ……………………8 Books & book reviews ……………….….8 Would you please note that the deadline for inclu- Crosword ……………………………….10 sion with the November 2015 Newsletter is the 31st Snow covered iron mine ……………….11 October 2015. The Wanlockhead Nugget ………….…..11 Submissions are welcome that would be of interest Pet rocks …………………………….….12 to members of the NMRS. These can be forwarded Hemingfield Colliery …………………..12 to me as text/disc by post or you can email or telephone. If you require anything returning please From Ingleton to South Africa …………16 ask. Photographs, plans and drawings are accepta- Disused mines could heat UK homes ….17 ble as long as they can be reproduced in black and Horace Lister (tunnel vision) …………..18 white. Issing Sid at Lea Bailey ………………..18 Mytholm Brickworks …………………..19 Crossword answers ……………….…….20 From the editor …………………………20 Page 1 NMRS - Newsletter August 2015 lar BM 76 as well as collecting donations for Also congratulations are due to two of our mem- our Society. Thank you, Bernard. bers who have recently become engaged – Richard Behind the scenes, and mostly thanks to Malcolm Bell and Jeanette Inkin. We wish them a long and Street, our website is undergoing a makeover and happy life together. should result in a more modern, viewer friendly site. On a more sombre note we are sad to hear of the The extensive content will still be there but in a death of Lawrence Barker. Elsewhere you find an more accessible format. obituary. Also we were sad to hear of the death of On the publications front we have some copies of Hilary Bird. Her husband, Dickie was our editor “Archive, the Quarterly Journal for British Industri- form 1976 to 1992 and Hilary dealt with our books al and Transport History” available. These are in sales over that period which was when our British excellent condition and if anyone is interested in Mining series was established. Also the Royal Soci- obtaining any please contact me. ety of Chemistry has reported the death of Trevor Our Facebook page continues to be a success and I Bridges who many of you would have known. His would like to thank Alastair Lings for his continuing widow very kindly donated her collection of NMRS help and to the following members who have pro- publications when they down-sized a few years ago. vided information and “posts” – Mike Gill, Mick Another loss to the mining fraternity was that of Hall, Jean Thornley, Helen Wilkinson and in partic- Pete Blezard, a long time CATMHS member. There ular Graham Topping who has sent so much infor- was a fantastic turnout at his funeral and we were mation and photos. One of his most popular “posts” pleased to see other NMRS members there, includ- attracted over 900 views! I hope if you are on ing one all the way from Somerset. Facebook you will continue to “like” and “share” us On a brighter note and looking forward to the future, so we can attract an even wider audience. We are our BM 100 is in the pipeline – what an achieve- such an active Society we should spread the word! ment and our 2016 AGM has been booked for On behalf of the Society I would like to welcome the Saturday April 16th at Mealbank, Ingleton so please following new members, make a note of this. Richard Barker - Ingleton Finally why not book your lunch at our Autumn Jim Coxon - Durham Meeting now, before you forget. We always have a Chris Curry - Richmond good turn out with a chance to catch up with like- Steven Millar - Ellesmere Port minded members, to purchase some bargain books, Ian Shield - Newcastle upon Tyne have an excellent lunch and hear about the progress Dr Ru Smith -Houston, USA of our Society as our Committee members present Col Suddick - Durham their reports. David Twist - St Peter Port, Guernsey Barbara Sutcliffe Hilary Bird It is with great sadness that we have to report the Lawrence’s family’s involvement in Yorkshire lead death of Hilary Bird on June 19th. While many of mining dates from the 1660s, when Robert Barker today’s members will probably not know her, Hilary came from Derbyshire to manage mines at Ket- made a great contribution by dealing with publica- tlewell. Robert’s brother, Adam, soon followed, but tions sales from 1976 to 1992. At the same time lived in Swaledale where he managed mines in the Dickie, her husband, was editor and he established Old Gang area. our ethos of high quality publications. Between them, they built up book sales, brought in many new Aided by a large number of documents collected members and took British Mining to the prominence both by his antecedents and himself, Lawrence had it deserves. We owe them both a great debt of an abiding interest in Swaledale’s history, especially gratitude for all their hard work which contributed its mines. He was an active member of the W.E.A. so much to the society’s success. team whose work made a major contribution to Fieldhouse & Jenning’s ‘History of Richmond & John Lawrence Barker 1927-2015 Swaledale’. His job with the National Park allowed It is with great sadness that we have to report the Lawrence to promote the conservation of mining death of John Lawrence Barker, of Swaledale, a sites as well as introducing people to Dales’ history long-standing member who joined the society in and the lead industry. Lawrence contributed papers 1966. Lawrence was born in Healaugh on July 3rd on 17th century lead mining to the society’s Memoirs 1927 and left school at the age of 14. He trained as in the 1960s, and in 1978 the society published his a motor mechanic and became a partner in a local pioneering study of bale smelting sites in Swaledale, garage, but in 1972 he sold his interest and became a paper which also gave the first radio-carbon date a warden for the Yorkshire Dales National Park. for a bale on Calver Hill. Page 2 NMRS - Newsletter August 2015 was “Lead Manufacturing in Britain: a history” by As well as writing further papers for British Mining, D J Rowe: published in 1983, this also contributes Lawrence was generous in making his collection to a range of times from a tour in 1796 through to available to those of us studying aspects of books published in very recently. Something for Swaledale’s mines. He supported the Swaledale everyone. Museum by making his artefacts available for dis- play, and he also gave enthusiastic support to an MORE LIBRARY NEWS enhanced project to advance his own work by locat- ing further bales and obtaining a wider spread of We are very grateful to the archivists of Cumbria radio-carbon dates from them. I, for one, found him Amenity Trust Mining History Society and Cleve- a good critic of one’s work. If Lawrence could be land Industrial Archaeology Society for the follow- convinced of an argument’s strength then it was ing additions to the library.
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