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Collapse D2461 - Lead mines, lead smelting works and associated buildings: Wensley, Wakebridge, Crich, Bonsall, Wirksworth and other places in the peak district, 19th cent - [20th cent]

D2461 - Lead mines, lead smelting works and associated buildings: Wensley, Wakebridge, Crich, Bonsall, Wirksworth and other places in the peak district, 19th cent - [20th cent]

1-2 - Copy sale particulars re Mill Close Stoop or Mill Close mine [Wensley], shares in the Bage mine in the liberty of Wirksworth; Wakebridge mine, shares in mines in Crich, Bonsall, Ashford, Youlgreave, Eyam, Matlock, Taddington, Griffe Grange, Wesley, Winster, Wirksworth, Middleton by Wirksworth, Cromford, Brassington and Elton; Lea lead smelting works, land nearby and canal and wharf at Lea; Meerbrook smelting works at Alderwasley, wharf and railway siding at Homesford near the smelting works, and land at Meerbrook; farmhouse; and farm at Warren Carr; small piece of land in Stanton (in which the third and largest shaft, now a ventilating shaft, to Mill Close Mine is situated) and Wirksworth; Ore house etc at Brassington - 20th cent

3-4 - Copy plan from D2461/1 showing Mill Close Stoop/Mill Close Mine, Wensley, etc. - 1886 (20th cent)

5-6 - Copy advertisement inviting applications for shares in Bondoghole Lead mine and Goodluck lead mine which are to be consolidated to become holdings of company called Bondoghole Mining Co. 8 Aug 1849 - 20th cent

Sir John Franklin (1786-1847), naval officer and arctic explorer

Sir John Franklin (1786-1847), naval officer and arctic explorer

Bryan Donkin Company Ltd of Chesterfield, engineering firm

Bryan Donkin Company Ltd of Chesterfield, engineering firm

Strutt family of Belper

Strutt family of Belper

Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale

Sir John Franklin (1786-1847), naval officer and arctic explorer

Sir John Franklin (1786-1847), naval officer and arctic explorer

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