Following the cancellation
of the NAMHO 2001 Event in Ireland due to the FMD outbreak, Northern Mines
Research Society volunteered to organise an event for the year 2001 at
a location which would not be affected by the outbreak. At the time that
this deci-sion was made there was no indication of how long the access
restrictions would last and it had to be assumed that that access to the
countryside would be prohibited until after this event.
The event is a self-contained
Conference with no surface or underground visits and no special Saturday
night activity. There will be no raffles, auctions, quiz-zes etc, just
a chance to have a natter with people you don't see often enough.
The theme of the Conference
- "Mining History and Beyond"- will concentrate on aspects of mining his-tory
which have so far received little attention, and look to the future.
Because of the urgency of
the situation a core of speakers, who are recognised as leaders of their
various fields, has been established. However, anyone who of-fers to give
a lecture on the theme will be given serious consideration.
Further information is available
from Mike Gill, 38 Main St, Sutton in Craven, KEIGHLEY, BD20 7HD. Tel:
01535 635388 or E-Mail: martgill@legend.co.uk.
There
is also a dedicated website which is updated regularly, so please visit
it often to get the latest infor-mation. The website is at www.mroe.freeserve.co.uk/nmrs/namho/htm
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I have the E-Mail addresses
for those representatives who provided the information on the 2001 Renewal
Invoices.
If
any representative, who has E-Mail facilities and who did not give the
information on their renewal form, wishes to receive information by electronic
means, would they please advise the Secretary of their E-Mail address.
His
"Geology of the Northern Pennine Orefield", first published in 1948 and
revised and re-issued in 1990, remains the North Pennine 'bible'.
Ian Forbes (NMRS Newsletter)
There has been much criticism
of the Trust in the local area. This has reflected concern that little
emphasis has been placed on conserving the unique surface remains, which
is now the only substantially intact tin dressing complex in its original
location in the coun-try. There has also been much concern that the Trust
has not seen fit to publish accounts for the site into which large amounts
of public money have been poured.
The
Management Contract for the site with Corn-wall County Council lapses in
September 2001. A group of concerned local people - mainly ex Geevor staff
- with a wide range of abilities have formed a group, called Pendeen Community
Heritage, to tender for the contract. The aim of the group is to create
a high standard mining museum for Penwith which befits the economic regeneration
of the area by creating substantial jobs and increasing visitor numbers.
Pendeen Community Heritage will be constituted as a Charitable Company.
It can be contacted at Bo-jewyan House, Pendeen, PENZANCE, TR19 7TR. Tel:
01736 787312.
Bill Lakin
A selection of objects from
the Lancashire Mining Museum, which closed in July 2000, will be displayed
in the Centre. The collection will be kept together in a permanent gallery.
It is intended to depict the impor-tance of coal mining as a fundamental
factor in the re-gion's prosperity from the 18th Century.
Rob
Sharland-Ball, formerly of the National Rail-way Museum, is now working
on the design of the Coal Mining Gallery at the Manchester Museum of Science
and Industry.
I J Brown (Mining & Minerals April 2001)
It is hoped that by identifying
coalfields heritage and examples of innovative practice throughout the
country, it will be possible to encourage new projects, both for the preservation
of heritage in its wider sense and in order, where possible, to link with
action for re-generation. The Project hopes to uncover aspects not usually
seen as part of heritage, and to build on local in-terest
Further
information is available from Rosemary Power, The Coalfields Heritage Trust,
2 Portland Place, Spring Gardens, DONCASTER, DN1 3DF. Tel : 01302 304400,
E Mail: info@coalfields-regen.org.uk
My interest lies in the location
and business con-ducted at Salt Horn. WMC would seem to mean "Working Men's
Club" and this might well suggest mining, as would Salt Horn in the title.
I
would be most obliged if anyone could give me a lead in this quest.
P R Edwards, 13 Lodge Close, Canons Drive, EDGWARE, Middx, HA8 7RL
Greenside Mine was one of
the largest lead mines working almost continuously from 1825 until closure
in 1960. The village of Glenridding in Patterdale, Lake District, grew
with the mine, being home to many of the miners.
The
exhibition consists of hundreds of photographs from 1880 to 1960, newspaper
articles, archive mate-rial, maps and plans. There is a display of working
models of mine machinery and paintings by a Yorkshire artist. Major events
at the mine are covered including the recent re-opening of the Lucy Level,
the main en-trance to the mine. Last year's exhibition resulted in more
exhibits being made available and these will be in-corporated into the
exhibition this year.
John Hodgkins
Recently I have been in touch
with a German Hy-drological Engineer, Dr Thomas Krassmann, who told me
that he has prepared list of all known man-engines worldwide. These lists
can be found on the web-site: < http/www.untertage.com >
These lists are in German
and English. The Germans call the man-engine "fahrkunst" and the French
"echelles mobiles".
Dr Krassmann surprised me
by stating that there are two man-engines still operating. One is at a
mining Museum at Kongsberg in Norway and the other, which is in regular
use to enable pumping equipment to be serviced, is at the Samson Shaft
at St Andreasberg in the Harz Mountains, Germany.
The man-engine at Samsons
was installed in 1837 and was powered by a large water wheel. It was con-verted
to electrical operation in 1924 and the pumps are at the 190 metre level.
I
would be very interested to hear from anyone who has actually travelled
on either of these devises.
David Tew, 3 Sandringham Close, OAKHAM, Rutland, LE15 6SH
A
project has been set up in Switzerland, at an un-derground fire study and
training centre, to investigate tunnel fires on an international basis.
This will involve the extension of the tunnel network at the existing Hagerbach
Test Gallery at Flums, which already has 4.5km of tunnels.
I J Brown (World Tunnelling April 2000)
If
a mine could be dewatered by an adit it was classed as a dry mine but if
the water had to be pumped out of the mine, it was classed as a wet mine.
It was, therefore, possible to have more water coming from dry mine than
from a wet mine.
Friends of Killhope Newsletter
Further
information and copies of the book are available from Mike Gill, 38 Main
St, Sutton in Craven, KEIGHLEY, BD20 7HD. Tel: 01535 635388 or E-Mail:
martgill@legend.co.uk.
NMRS Newsletter
The Valetta Convention Article
3 will mandate the licensing of both individuals and excavations. It will
cover all forms of prospecting including geophysical and field walking.
It will not just affect local societies and "amateur" archaeologists, but
will spread to univer-sities, museums and research institutes.
Only time will tell how the
Article will be applied in practice, but the initial impression of the
Article is that many NAMHO organisations will be affected by this Article
if it were to be strictly enforced. It would appear that permission will
be required to clear sites and even dig out adits.
If any organisation, or individual,
has any views on this article, would they please contact the secretary
of NAMHO.
The
web site of the Council for Independent Archaeology is : www.archaeology.co.uk/cia/
The 26 year old man had abseiled
down the Stains-bury Shaft at Charterhouse and it is believed that he was
trapped in the shaft for 11 days.
Children
walking a recently reopened foot path heard his cries for help and raised
the alarm. He was rescued by the Mendip Cave Rescue Team.
The lorry had broken down
on the Pass when it rolled back and fell 30ft into the beck and landed
upside down in the ravine.
The road was closed, a 200yd
exclusion zone es-tablished, and the lorry was recovered next day.
The
HSE was of the opinion that there was little risk of an explosion but was
concerned that someone may have been injured by slipping into the beck.
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