This old newspaper cutting may be interesting:-
Sheffield and Rotherham Independent.
3rd. April 1884
Valuable lands, Messuage, Mines, Buildings and Mining Machinery, situate at or near Eyam, in the county of Derby, the property of the Eyam Mining Company
To be sold by auction by Mr. Isaac Ellis, at the Miner's Arms Inn, Eyam aforesaid, on Thursday, the 3rd. April, at Four o'clock in the Afternoon prompt, in the following or such other lots as may be determined upon at time of sale, and subject to the Conditions to be then produced: -
Lot 1: The New Dusty Pits and Old Dusty Pits Lead Mines, and Mineral Possessions, situate between Eyam and Foolow, in the Manor or Mineral Liberty of Stoney Middleton and Eyam. And also all the Piece of Land known as New Dusty Pits, abuting on the Turnpike Road leading from Eyam to Foolow, and forming the site of the surface workings of the said New Dusty Pits Mine, and containing 1 acres or thereabouts, together with the substantial buildings standing thereon, and also all that piece of land, being the site of the surface works of the Old Dusty Pits Mine, together with certain rights of drainage through the Morewood Sough. The Dusty Pits Mines were for many years the most productive in Derbyshire, and a fresh trial might be made at a small outlay.
Lot 2: The Haycliffe Mine and Mineral Possessions, situate in Eyam Edge, in the Manor or Mineral Liberty of Eyam aforesaid, together with certain rights of drainage through the Morewood Sough.
Lot 3: The valuable Lead Mines, known as the Morewood Sough, Cliffe Stile, Glebe Shaft, Brookhead and Little Brookhead, and Old Ladywash, situate in the Manor or Mineral Liberty aforesaid (subject to the Rights of Drainage to be reserved in favour of the proprietors of Lots 1 and 2.
And also the Drawing Engine and Gear, Engine House, Powder Magazine, Dressing and other fixed Machinery on the said Mines. And also all that Piece of Land, containing 417 yards or thereabouts, forming part of the surface workings at the Glebe Mine, in Eyam aforesaid, together with a right of road reserved over Lot 10. The Glebe Mine, for a long period, and until quite recently, yielded a substantial quantity of Ore, and the extensive possessions of this lot offer an unusual opportunity to investors for making further trial in this productive district, for which only a small expenditure of capital would be required.
Lot 4: The valuable and extensive Lead Mines and Mineral Possessions known as the New Ladywash, Shaw Engine, New Engines, Magclough, Stoke Engines, and the rights of the Vendor in Stoke Sough, situate in the Manor or Mineral Liberty of Stoney Middleton and Eyam aforesaid, and in the Manor of Stoke, in the County of Derby.
And also all those the Powerful Pumping Engine, Two Drawing Engines, Horizontal Engine, Two Boilers, Blake's Stone Crusher, Steam Hotchers, and all other Valuable Fixed Machinery and Plant, together with the Engine House and other Outbuildings connected with the said Mines. The Magclough Level extends from the Magclough Plantation to New Engines, and the Stoke Sough extends from the River Derwent, near Stoke Hall, to the westerly part of the Ladywash possessions. The Shafts are of the most substantial character.
Lot 5: The Fielding Gate Mine, situate at the head of Middleton Dale, near Lowney, in the said Manor or Mineral Liberty.
Lot 6: The Shining Cliffe Mine, near to the Ball Inn, Middleton Dale, in the said Manor or Mineral Liberty.
Lot 7: A Moiety or equal Half Part of the "Burrs" Mine, situate near the Footroad between Eyam and Foolow, in the said manor or Mineral Liberty.
Lot 8: Thirteen-and-a-half Twenty-Fourth Parts or Shares in the Watergrove United Mines, near Foolow and Middleton Dale, together with such rights as the Vendors posses in the substantial Chimney, Shaft, and Mining Buildings, situate at Watergrove, near Foolow, all which premises are in the said Manor or Mineral Liberty.
Lot 9: Three Closes of Valuable Accommodation Grass Land, situate in Eyam aforesaid, known as Side Cop Pingles, containing 2a. 3r. 7p., abutting on the north in part on the Turnpike Road leading from Eyam to Foolow, and now occupied by the Misses Maltby.
Lot 10: The Plot of Freehold Land, near to the Glebe Mines, in Eyam aforesaid, containing 570 square yards, or thereabouts, with the Offices (formerly a Dwelling House) and other Outbuildings, at present occupied by the Company, (subject and reserving to the owners of the Glebe Mine for the time being a right of road over the westerly portion of the said plot of land).
The whole of the Premises above described will first be offered in One Lot, and if not sold then in the several Lots before mentioned, or as may be determined by the Vendors at the Sale.
For further particulars apply at the Eyam Mining Company's Offices at Eyam, or at 23, Church Street, Sheffield; to the Auctioneers, 19, George street, Sheffield; or to
Messrs. Bagshawe and Hall, Solicitors, 63, Norfolk Street, Sheffield
