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Collapse D8097 - Doug Ashton Nash of Eyam (1921-2016), lead-mining historian and caver - 19th-20th cent

D8097 - Doug Ashton Nash of Eyam (1921-2016), lead-mining historian and caver - 19th-20th cent

Expand 1 - Original lead-mining plans - 19th cent

1 - Original lead-mining plans - 19th cent

Expand 2 - Subject files - 20th cent

2 - Subject files - 20th cent

Expand 3 - Nellie Kirkham correspondence files - 1949-1979

3 - Nellie Kirkham correspondence files - 1949-1979

Collapse 4 - Mining research, including Operation Mole - 20th cent

4 - Mining research, including Operation Mole - 20th cent

1 - Research file: "Norwood Greaves - Doug Nash, John Beck and or possibly Roger Ridgeway" - 1950-1951

2 - Research file: Norwood Greaves from Nellie Kirkham - for Doug Nash. - 1950s

3 - Research file: "Caving, Nellie Kirkham and Operation Mole" - 1950-1951

4 - Operation Mole: The Winster Earth Tremor File. Opened 22 Feb 1952. Closed 22 Dec 1952. - 1952

5 - Provisional specification of Patent Application number 24,685 dated 25 Aug 1954 in the names of Thomas Fox and Walter Sidney Grainger for improvements in or relating to combustible slabs, briquettes or the like for use as fuel or for fire lighting purposes. - 1954

6 - Margaret Oakley correspondence - 1960-1962

7 - Research file: "Meerbrook Sough – Water Board and others" - 1961-1964

8 - James Rieuwerts correspondence - 1963-1967

9 - Research file: "British Thomson-Houston; Millfield Farm – Guy Mine 1965-1966" - 1965-1966

10 - Research file: The Moorwood Sough file, 1967. - 1967

11 - Research file: Moorwood Sough - 1968-1969

12 - Research file: "Mr W Hodson – Blobber Mine" - 1968

13 - Research file: "Wager’s Heading, Longstone Edge, 1969" - 1969

14 - Research file: Mogshaw Rake - 1969-1970

15 - Research file: "Mr Roe, Calver Peak, Coombes Dale" - 1970

16 - Report re Raper Prospect Area (ref: OM.2.4) - 1970

17 - Report on stratigraphy and mineralization at Plackett Mine. Typed, 8 pages, not dated, no author given. Accompanied by an annotated small scale map of the area attributed to a survey by the Metalliferous Mines Research Group, P Foster and P Swindles. c1970s - c1970s

18 - Research file: "Christine Bonner, Guide to Sources of Information for Cavers" - 1985

19 - Correspondence between Laporte Minerals, Evelyn Dixon of the Peak District Mining Museum and Susan Morgan, Secretary of the Hucklow Preservation Society, about whether radon gas at Ladywash Mine posed a danger to public health (in light of the company's having submitted a planning application for a new drift mine entrance). - 1985-1986

20 - Letters from folder labelled in Nellie Kirkham's writing, "Doug Nash letters etc" - 20th cent

21 - Explorations in the Alport area: "Millfield Farm, Guy Mine, Danger, Broadmeadow, Shining Sough. NK [Nellie Kirkham] L[awrence] Hurt of Woollaton, Nottinghamshire, leader of the Nottingham Rover Caving Group, and the Nottingham Mines Research and Exploration Group" - 1966-1970

22 - Research file: Stanton Estates Exploration - 20th cent

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Local Studies Periodicals

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Strutt family of Belper

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Local Studies Periodicals

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Florence Nightingale

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