There's no shortage of things to find in the VG if you're willing to spend a lot of time crawling around in thickets!

I think that's site no. 5 listed in Roger Flindall's article on the Slingtor Wood mines - https://pdmhs.co.uk/MiningHistory/Bulletin%206-6%20-%20Mines%20in%20the%20Slingtor%20Wood%20Area,%20Cromford.pdf I'm not sure of a name for it, it's possibly on Alabaster Old Vein.

I think so, there's mention in the photographic section here https://pdmhs.co.uk/pdmhs-library/

They're in the PDMHS library, the BCA library passed the mining-related bits of the Nash-Beck collection over to us.

The quick answer is to the north of Coalpithole Rake - have a look at the section in https://pdmhs.co.uk/MiningHistory/Bulletin%2017-3%20-%20Metal%20Mines%20through%20Time.pdf covering Devonshire, there's a map showing the area. One note of caution for that area, the shafts around there are...

I guess part of the problem is that very few people currently know where Spar Holes is, or how much is there - the Troggs found it of course! Terry Worthington said to me that he reckoned there's likely a system of similar size to Devonshire there and from what I've seen of the currently...

Complete chaos round Winnats and Rushup this weekend, I've heard an injured walker on Mam Tor had to be taken out by the air ambulance yesterday because a regular ambulance couldn't get near enough thanks to all the badly (& illegally) parked morons. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crm72d22znpo

There probably would be fewer if they thought to put a shovel in the car... I've ended up digging people out on several occasions when they've got stuck in front of me and they were wholly unprepared for driving in snow. 🤬

Erm, I think you mean the DCC (Derbyshire Caving Club) for Alderley Edge access, not the DCA!

Given what Santa's brought me for Christmas is a complete bugger of a cold, Kevin Bloody Wilson's Santa song comes to mind...

I think it's more suggesting that this is the first massacre in British prehistory where the evidence suggests the winners ate the losers. All together now: "I ate my baby, on Silbury Hill...":D

As it says in the original article, they re-evaluated the deposit which suggests to me someone has been researching a specific area, come across this deposit and taken a closer look at it resulting in new conclusions. The nature of the fill layer containing the bones is discussed on p.199-201...

The published article in the first post suggests that the layer containing the bones was created in a single infilling event - I haven't followed up the original UBSS article but that will describe the context in better detail. If it had been created over time, in stages then I would expect...

There's Goldscope or Carrock you could consider, depending on whereabouts in the Lakes you'll be staying?

Eyam Museum have an audio recording of Doug on their website -

It really has turned into an artificial Boris Johnson...

Im not sure if Nick is/was an OM member but he certainly knocked around with them back in the day, and of course having worked for Laportes he would have known Doug well.

The first verse of Alex Glasgows song "Close the Coalhouse Door" comes to mind. Close the coalhouse door, lad. There’s blood inside, Blood from broken hands and feet, Blood that’s dried on blackened meat, Blood from hearts that know no beat. Close the coalhouse door, lad. There’s blood inside.

I suspect like the Piece Hall in Halifax, the owners looked at the footfall when there's a load of small, oddball, but great shops and stalls and hiked the rents up, resulting just another bland corporate outlet/generic eatery collection as the quirky traders who can't afford big rents moved out.

For understanding where the flows are going, consult the EPC survey. It's very hard to be sure what routes the drainage was taking before mining; the bung series provides an example of drainage going eastwards in the general direction of the Aussie Rift swallow, rather than going southeast on...