I have resurrected this thread as I am now working on diagrams for the chapter of my book dealing with the Matlock Town area. Attached is a small snippet covering the Pig Tor area taken from the top of my A3 size area map for High Tor and Hard Rake – Riber Mine. It is based on the 2nd Ed 25 inch...

Thank you for the offers Phil but I think we are too far down the line now to be talking of changing horses. The editor, Richard Shaw, must have already put in much work on this, and so have other PDMHS types such as Lynn Willies and Noel Worley. Providing that PDMHS wish to proceed with it...

Thank you for your interest: the only reward that I will get is the appreciation of other people for the book. Am doing my best with it. Last September I started doing the diagrams, having to draw them by hand because they are far too complex for me to manage on a computer. The worst area maps...

The extract from the Barmaster’s maps suggests that the walled-up opening was on Bradshaw Vein and it cites the entry on p.26 of Book 45, which is as follows: 27 May 1807 Then gave James Ludlamb from the Bruck at the Botham of the hawlees in hawlees Vein Twelve meares Rainging over the Hills to...

For the last three months I have been drawing up the vein maps and diagrams to accompany my definitive book on the Matlock Bath which PDMHS are hoping to publish eventually. Have worked up the west side from Cromford and now on Masson so have not yet done the east side of the river. I use the...

Have been off-line over the weekend as am still using the local library for Internet access. I have discovered a bit about Red Vein. Farey’s list of mines in 1811 (Volume 1 p265) included: Red-mineral, S of Newhaven-House, in Hartington, in 4th Lime, red Iron Ore ? pretended Cinibar. There is...

I am not familiar with this area but can supply a few notes and perhaps AR or someone else who has visited the area might be able to identify the mines involved and lay out the courses of the veins. In the barmasters’ books, Royston Grange was called Ryestone Farm, and was the location of the...

Had noticed the developments at Willersley Castle. Was there last week with my old mining friend, Andy Hayes, with whom we used to do all the surveys. First time he had been back to the Matlock mines for over 45 years - everything has got worse including us.

I have been asked to write books on Cromford, Middleton, and Wirksworth, to help the Mining Museum when it has moved to the National Stone Centre site. Lynn tactfully described it as "emptying your brains before you die". At the moment, I am compiling a short report on mining in Bradford Dale...

Thank you for your interest, Brains. Things are moving. My sister died suddenly two years ago - I had been her carer and could now undertake major commitments elsewhere so I passed the text to Lynn Willies who kindly commented extensively on it. Then worked it over thoroughly and, following a...

The mine at Crystal Palace was supposed to be a replica of one at Matlock, hence I covered the subject in my Matlock book altho' only briefly. Extract from the book below (book is now with PDMHS editor for publication): Instead of tourists going to Matlock, a display of geological strata at...

Apologies, I made a mistake in my last post when I added the afterthought about Boiling Pot Spring. I use the local library for Internet access and was not able to run the subject through my computer's archives until I got home. I could remember that there was something interesting about Boiling...

There are no mines recorded in the vicinity of the Bonsall Moor Swallet. I checked the Barmaster’s records for references to caves elsewhere on Bonsall Moor. All I could find were details about Shack Founder (shack was the miner’s term for a cavern). This was situated on Bonsall Moor in...

Thanks for that Phil. Certainly will need help doing the diagrams. This year have been helping John Gunn who is doing an article on the hydrogeology of Masson. This has made me up my game quite a bit and I re-examined all the data on that and was laying out the mine titles on the Masson survey...