Flintshire Lead Mining

[royfellows]

Mentioned briefly in another thread, I think it appropriate to start a new one on this. I have only just learned from Welsh Mines Newsletter that its developer, Chris Ebbs, sadly died late last year. This explains why I have not heard from him for some time. Chris put a lot of effort into developing this site which was on a free Google platform. When this was being withdrwn there was danger of the site being lost, I stepped in and offered to save it and host it under the Cambrian Mines Trust banner. It was a bit difficult as the site was not developed on local disk but on a remote server from which it had to be hacked. But I managed this, cleaned it up, and got in onto our own server.

The design is a bit unusual for a website but its as Chris designed it and I kept faithful to this:
At some point in the future I might register a domain for it, they cheap enough.

Home Page

cambrianmines.co.uk

 

[RobinGriffiths]

Ah bloody hell. Didn't know that. I've been in regular correspondence with him for decades.

Worth noting that he also produced the excellent North Wales Caves site which is now at https://cambriancavingcouncil.org.uk/registry/CoNW/CoNW.htm

 

[ChrisJC]

Oh, I thought it was fairly widespread knowledge. I found this at the bottom of the Olwyn Goch shaft earlier this year.

Chris.

 

[tomferry]

Oh, I thought it was fairly widespread knowledge. I found this at the bottom of the Olwyn Goch shaft earlier this year.

Chris.
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You fibber ! I found it ! You would have forgotten that though .

 

[ChrisJC]

😂 Probably, but I knew who it was!

Chris.

 

[cavemanmike]

There is also a plaque in murphys pot

 

[David Roberts]

Mentioned briefly in another thread, I think it appropriate to start a new one on this. I have only just learned from Welsh Mines Newsletter that its developer, Chris Ebbs, sadly died late last year. This explains why I have not heard from him for some time. Chris put a lot of effort into developing this site which was on a free Google platform. When this was being withdrwn there was danger of the site being lost, I stepped in and offered to save it and host it under the Cambrian Mines Trust banner. It was a bit difficult as the site was not developed on local disk but on a remote server from which it had to be hacked. But I managed this, cleaned it up, and got in onto our own server.

The design is a bit unusual for a website but its as Chris designed it and I kept faithful to this:
At some point in the future I might register a domain for it, they cheap enough.

Home Page

cambrianmines.co.uk

Hi Roy,

I had a look at the Flint lead Mining site but I couldn't progress beyond the homepage. It mentions a Navigation Bar on the left of the page but I can't see one anywhere. Have I missed something? The links work, as does clicking on any of the three photos to enlarge them.

I'm using Google Chrome on a Windows laptop, if that's useful information.

 

[Cantclimbtom]

In the unlikely event anyone is good enough to install a plaque for me somewhere one day (the more daft the location the better), I'd be very grateful if they line up the screw slots as carefully as someone did for Chris Ebbs. (I'm slightly anxious about the bottom left one, but they are generally parallel). Not sure why I find that so important but I'm pleased to see the pic that it was done properly for that guy!

 

[royfellows]

Hi Roy,

I had a look at the Flint lead Mining site but I couldn't progress beyond the homepage. It mentions a Navigation Bar on the left of the page but I can't see one anywhere. Have I missed something? The links work, as does clicking on any of the three photos to enlarge them.

I'm using Google Chrome on a Windows laptop, if that's useful information.

Yes, I have just tried it on my netbook, its OK on larger PC screen, I am wondering how long it has been like this. I will look into this an attempt a fix.

 

[royfellows]

I have identified the issue, but will be tomorrow before I can attempt a fix, will advise when done.
In meantime, you could try this link to another page and you might get to see the navigation bar

General Lead Mining History

cambrianmines.co.uk

 

[David Roberts]

I have identified the issue, but will be tomorrow before I can attempt a fix, will advise when done.
In meantime, you could try this link to another page and you might get to see the navigation bar

General Lead Mining History

cambrianmines.co.uk

Thanks for the link. It's a fascinating resource and I'm glad that it's safe and won't vanish.

 

[ChrisB]

In the unlikely event anyone is good enough to install a plaque for me… … I'd be very grateful if they line up the screw slots as carefully as someone did for Chris Ebbs.

In the even more unlikely event that someone installs a plaque for me, or posts a thread about my demise, I hope they will spell my name correctly. Did Mr Ebbs spell his with an 'h' as all the posters here did, or without, as on the plaque?

 

[ChrisB]

From the photo of his book I've just found via Roy's link, it seems the plaque is correct with 'Cris'

 

[cavemanmike]

Cris was short for crispin

 

[royfellows]

Issues fixed, hopefully. Nothing to do with screen size or laptop or whatever, the home page was f---d. What I was seeing was the old version, refresh reverled the truth.