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Feb 2018 News Letter 2 www.nmrs.org.uk Febuary 2018. www.nmrs.org.uk Editor. Graham Topping Chapel Lodge.Chapel Lane. West Bradford. Clitheroe. Lancs. From Your President BB74SN. Tel:- 07973905883. Email:- [email protected] The first newsletter of another year and thank you to all who have paid their membership fees In this Issue. promptly which is a big help for our new membership secretary, Gary Topping. Those who are Page. now paid up will find their membership card and meet list enclosed. Watch out for any other 1. From Your President. events added in future newsletters. A gentle reminder to those of you who have not paid up this 2. Library News. will be your last newsletter! Thank you to Graham Topping for organising and posting out Ingleton Coal Mines. membership cards and newsletters where needed. It is a welcome break for Rex and I. British Mining help required Hemingfield update Our A.G.M this year is on Saturday 28th April at Mealbank Hall, Ingleton SD69497394. A 3. German Mines in the Lakes word of warning for those coming via the M65 and the A682 – there are now average speed Spanish Power Stations. cameras between Higherford and Gisburn, with differing speed limits on different sections of 4. Robotic Underwater Miners. road. This will also apply to members using the road for the Autumn meeting at Gisburn. Rio-Tinto’s Driverless Trucks. 5. New Belstead Quarry chosen As usual book sales will commence at 11.30 (please let me know if you intend to bring some Balmoral Crystals Exhibition. of your own) with the pre-booked free lunch at 12.00 noon. In order to arrange catering for 6. W.C.M. underground investig this please book your place with me prior to April 18th on 01282 614615 (there is an answer ations. machine should we be out) or email [email protected]. Also in order to save 7. W.C.M. update. time and photocopying please look at the minutes of our Autumn meeting on our website prior UK coal production to double to the meeting. If you are unable to access a computer please let me know on booking and I by 2025. will make sure a copy with your name on it is available when you arrive at the Hall. The AGM Yorkshire Mineral Fair. will follow lunch after which Bernard Bond will lead a short surface walk. There is more 8. “Undermining the Miners”. information about this elsewhere. 9. Poldark Mine “desecrated” 10. The Coal Industry in War time. The weekend of 19th & 20th May the Yorkshire Mineral & Fossil Fair is taking place at West Ardsley Oil Works Tennants in Leyburn and as last year Northern Mine Research Society will have a stand for our 12. Sink Holes explained. publications. There is a flyer printed elsewhere in our Newsletter. As it is a free event with free 14. Tara Mines long running saga. parking and plenty to see on site please try and come along and introduce yourself to me. Also 15. Pretoria Pit disaster Memorial if you want to save on postage you could collect orders from me there. {emergency} Publications available. On behalf of NMRS I would like to welcome the following new members 16. Cleveland Mining Heritage Society. Rodney Agutter - Coventry 17. Black Country Miners. Strike Fiona Arscott-Smith - Leyton Buzzard Breakers. Paul Brown - Earby 18. International Early Engine Adam Clenton - Otley Conference. Nicola Cryer - Swinden 19. Abbeytown. James Fraser - Edinburgh Narrow Gage World John Gander - Liskeard 20. How much Oil is left? James Gillespie - Alexandria 21. Stoney Cove, mine truck. Nick Hawes - Scaynes Hill, West Sussex 22. Five, UK gold mines. Jim Macpherson - Ebchester 23. Gayle Mill statement. Keith Pearson - Brixham 24. Grassington Moor photo- Martin Rushton - Rochester graphs. David Scurrah - Carlisle James Tuck - Cramlington Please note that the Alan Woodland - Rossington deadline for inclusion in the May 2018 Newslet- Our Facebook page continues to be well received and we now have over 1000 followers eager to read both our news and that of other members and organisations with similar interests. In our ter is, 26th April 2018. last newsletter there were some unfortunate errors in the transfer of part of Ron Callender`s Page 1 NMRS - Newsletter Feb 2018. gold article into actual print. To attempt to rectify this I put some having set up a small local mining display, Beech Terrace was of the corrected part on our Facebook page. Alan J Wylie contact- known as Brick Row. Built in 1874 and was miner's cottages built ed me to say his great grandfather sailed through Tierra del Fuego during the opening of the Wilson Wood Colliery. Being a short in the 1800s and wrote a pamphlet walking distance and after this visit we will return to the A65 and https://planet.davewylie.uk/personal/robert-hine/ which is visit Brian Hucks Vehicle store and scrap yard the site of the very interesting and Alan said I could share it with our members. New Ingleton Colliery, it's closure 1940. A full report will be included in the May Newsletter. Our former newsletter Editor is also actively involved with the Bernard Bond Railway Lea Bailey Light Railway. If you would like to see a sample of their newsletter please contact me. Obviously they are interested in adding to their membership and this offer may en- British Mining needs your help courage some of you especially if in the area. Hitherto NMRS has not experienced problems in attracting arti- Our website continues to expand and it is worth checking it for cles for its journal, British Mining. These can be either papers of added information. There are added resource pages with more to up to 50 pages or so in length or more detailed monographs of 70 come. Malcolm is continually updating and adding so please have – 250 pages. Subjects can be on any form of mining and can a look. include associated topics such as mining geology, smelting, ore dressing and quarrying. Unfortunately some of our most prolific Please remember this is your newsletter. It is so much more authors have passed away recently and unless new contributors interesting when contributions are from our members. We all have step forward this essential part of our activities will decline. so many diverse interests. Please consider sharing yours with our membership. The existing literature on mining subjects is very extensive and at first sight it appears that most of the accessible source material in Just a reminder that we at NMRS are well aware of the Data the record offices has been written up. This may be so but there Protection Act (www.gov.uk/data-protection-act) and how it is always new material appearing, many of our monographs deal should be implemented and can confirm that we use any data we with wide overviews of mining areas and for reasons of brevity receive in approved ways. It is kept for membership purposes have had to leave out detailed descriptions of individual mines. only. If a member resigns their entry is erased from our database. Furthermore, there is always scope for new topics, such as guides Details are never passed to third parties. to surface features, which may attract new members to the Society. Checklist Please contact me if you think you might have a contribution and Do I need to renew my membership? wish to discuss it or submit it for publication. Have I booked for the AGM? [email protected] Can I offer a contribution to our next newsletter? Editor. Richard Smith. Barbara Sutcliffe. Open Day and Working Party, Satur- LIBRARY NEWS day 13th January 2018 Thank you to Julian Holmes for a copy of Cyril Noall’s book he first Open Day of 2018 dawned with great anticipation. “Levant”, for several Yorkshire Geological Proceedings and for The Friends opened the gates to regular volunteers Keith, British Regional Geology Reports on Scotland. Thank you to TAlan, Nigel, John, Paul and Chris. Having downed tools in David Lewis for A.P. Cartwright’s book “The Gold Miners” about December 2017, everyone was keen to continued excavating the South Africa, and for Dartmoor Tinworking Research Group’s coal tub, or corve and the intriguing remains at the rear of the site. leaflet “Brimpts Tin Mines”. Thank you to Tom Greeves, and the Dartmoor Tinworking Research Group, for a copy of their 2016 For this discovery we can let the images speak for themselves, as Conference papers on “The Tinworking Landscape of Dartmoor we follow the day's in a European Context”. dig... Issue 96 of “Archive” has been added to the library. It is mostly Read more of this post about coal mining. There are several pages of photographs of The Friends of Hem- Quaker House Colliery (Lancashire), taken by Steve Grudgings in ingfield Colliery 1989 and an article on Parc Level (South Wales) by Paul Jackson Thursday 18th Janu- which concentrates on the Ruston diesel locomotives used. There ary, 2018 at 7:05 pm is also an article about Porthoustock stone quarry. Categories: Archaeol- ogy, General, Volun- Sallie Bassham (Honorary Librarian) teers, Working party https://wp.me/p4KB 4S-3SH The Ingleton Coal Mines walk The Friends of Following the A.G.M. Bernard Bond will lead a short surface walk around the following sites, please bring with you your Hemingfield “hard hat". First we will visit Bernard's garage on Beech Terrace, Colliery. Page 2 NMRS - Newsletter Feb 2018 Caldbeck mine was down to 25. It has been suggested that some Germans mined in Lakes for vital war women worked on surface jobs at the mine during the war but no mineral until eve of First World War.
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