Caves of the Peak District

[Pitlamp]

Point taken Jason; mind you, your club library is a good 'un!

(Ta for your PM a moment or two ago - just sent a reply.)

 

[SamT]

Out of interest, does your club library have a catalogue of what's in it?

Jules Barrett spent most a week sorting it and cataloguing it prior to it going to Phils. He'd done about 5000 items when..

on the friday night - he had a break in and his laptop was nicked. 

Nobody can  muster the enthusiasm since.

Finding the time and resources to put eveything online would involve a HUGE amount of time and effort - although it would be nice to have!

Many hands and all that. i.e. - Eldon need only worry about their journals.. TSG, theirs  ULSA etc etc.

 

[pwhole]

I'm giving away one of my best sources now, but what the heck - for those who don't know, there's a microfilm-based collection of JW Puttrell and Frank Brindley's newspaper articles at Sheffield Local Studies Library that has kept me transfixed for hours at a time - it's well worth looking through that for all kinds of rare nuggetry, though it can be a tad fanciful and possibly fabricated in certain instances (Brindley was more guilty of that, I'm told). You can print off individual pages at photocopy-quality for 20p a go.

Photos don't come out that great, but the text is usually fine, and very handy to refer back to at 3am when the library isn't open and you can't get to sleep...

 

[RobinGriffiths]

Picked up mine from the local Royal Mail depot this morning (courtesy of H&H). Great stuff. Well done DCA, Iain, Jenny, John (in alphabetical order)

Anything happening on the Northern Caves front ?

 

[moorebooks]

Hello Jenny, what is the "Little Red Book" ?

The little red book is Lead Mining in the Peak District produced by PDHMS and have several editions http://moorebooks.co.uk/shelves/cart.php?target=product&product_id=17438&category_id=326 The latest edition was produced by landmark publications and was a similar in design to CotPD but is out print

On the subject of Mines of the Peak DFistrict Byron Machin had a go  with his 4 volumes the idea is there but is not as well presented as other volumes - I have volumes 3 & 4 available at ?2.00 each
http://moorebooks.co.uk/shelves/cart.php?target=product&product_id=19577&category_id=326
Mike