Looked for it but didn't find it - keep meaning to ask Boy Engineer for the loan of his infrared camera to see if there's any ground obviously warmer than the surroundings.Did anyone ever find the 'lightly gobbed up gate' by the twin trunked Elm Trees (?) above Lovers Walk near here? The story told at the time sounded very interesting with some potential for exploration. Sure there's a thread on here somewhere![]()
Looked for it but didn't find it - keep meaning to ask Boy Engineer for the loan of his infrared camera to see if there's any ground obviously warmer than the surroundings.
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: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 local library for internet access and do not have access to my own data but will look when I get home and be back online tomorrow. Think it was not important, as paul has suggested. From our 1980 odd article on the Masson system, the area map for that site does not
help much.View attachment 18208
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 the River Darwent in the piggtree And Nine meares in the Ladygate vein from the River Darwent in the Piggtree to the South side of a piece of Land none by the name of Armes Croft And from the West side the Ladygate in Lows Croft Six meares in the Hills Vein or to the River Darwent or be the same more or Less And from the South side the Parsons Archard in some Old holes 4 meares Rainging near South up William Godwards Close Gave them for the Dimple Mess:
Twenty four men John Knowles and George Holmes.
This gift was for the owners of Dimple Mine.
The details of Bradshaw Vein come off a plan of Stoneyway Title 1856. Nothing more is known of it.
Probably insignificant – there are no signs of a vein visible on the adjacent rock. Can never be sure tho’ – the small openings just across the river in a quarry face were the Harveydale Quarry Tubes, an extensive phreatic cave system connecting to an engine shaft on Seven Rakes.View attachment 18210![]()
As soon as my CBA muscle has recovered I’ll pop up there and have another look. Could do with a cold snap first, rather than the current murk.Looked for it but didn't find it - keep meaning to ask Boy Engineer for the loan of his infrared camera to see if there's any ground obviously warmer than the surroundings.