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Collapse D5682 - H Masters, historian - [20th cent]

D5682 - H Masters, historian - [20th cent]

1 - Extracts of mineral laws, mode of selling lead ore, budding, dressing of lead ore, mine soughs, list of remarkable natural caverns and holes in the rocks, shake-holes or water swallows - 20th cent

2 - Transcript of notes on dialling - 20th cent

3 - Notes on cupolas and boles (sources include Farey and the Victoria County History of Derby vol 2 1907) - 20th cent

4 - List of boles: referring to Farey's citation in his list of 1811, where marked on maps and approximate height - 20th cent

5 - Production of lead from the mines of the UK for the years 1868, 1874-1876 (abstract from Percy 'Lead', 1870) - 20th cent

6 - Notes on soughs and levels (sources includes Farey, Memoir of the Geological Survey and the Transactions of the Chesterfield and Derbyshire Institute of Engineers) - 20th cent

7 - Abstracts from an article by Arthur H Stokes on meers and soughs, notes on Mill Close lead mine, notes on steam engines and other extracts from the Transactions of the Chesterfield and Derbyshire Institute of Engineering (vol 8, 1880-1) on meers and soughs - 20th cent

8 - Notes on sough levels - 20th cent

9 - The steam engine as used in the lead mining industry of North Derbyshire: information regarding sites etc - 20th cent

10 - Notes on pumping engines (including the Guy Engine, the B& W engine at Gregory Mine, Ashover, Alport water-pressure pumping engine) - 20th cent

11 - Description of a steam-engine, on Savery's Principle, which raises water to turn a water-wheel, extracted from Farey's treatise on the Steam Engine (1827) - 20th cent

12 - Transcript of bills of complain at the Great Barmoot Court of Wirksworth, 1681 - 20th cent

13 - Examples of bills taken from 'The Miners' Guide or Complete Miner' of 1810 - 20th cent

14 - Castleton: extracts from barmasters' books 1752-1778 (with an index to personal names) - 20th cent

15 - Notes of a verdict by the barmaster of the liberty of Brassington 1761 (from Hardy's Complete Miner 1762) - 20th cent

16 - Lists of shafts in the area (main source: HMSO vol 3 abandoned mines, 1929) - 20th cent

17 - Abstract from the catalogue of plans of abandoned mines (HMSO vol 3, 1929) - 20th cent

18 - Map (in red and black ink on blue linen) of shafts around Wirksworth, Bakewell, Hathersage etc - 20th cent

19 - Notes from Farey including lists of lead mines, boreing etc - 20th cent

20 - Notes from DAMM II including dressing of ores, the dolly tub or packing kieve, hard bubble etc - 20th cent

21 - Collection of miscellaneous notes including 'Rara avis in terris or the compleat miner', plum shafts, and the form of a bill of complaint put up at the Great Barmoot Court at Wirksworth, 1681 - 20th cent

22 - Notes on details of working, including buddling, jigging, the rack or hand-frame, the dolly tub or packing knife (sources include Tomlinson's Cyclopeadia of Useful Arts, 1850) - 20th cent

23 - Extracts from Farey's Derbyshire on topics such as limestone rocks, methods of working lead mines, and a list of ancient boles - 20th cent

24 - List of observations on the articles, taken from the Miners Guide of 1810 - 20th cent

25 - Transcript of 'Rara avis in terris or the Compleat Miner' by Thomas Houghton (printed London, 1738) - 20th cent

26 - Notes extracted from Bradwell, Ancient and Modern by Seth Evans, 1912 - 20th cent

27 - Diagrams of crushing ore by horse power, stowes and jigging machines - 20th cent

28 - Abstracts from Pilkington's View of Derbyshire, 1789 - 20th cent

29 - Notes on lead smelting, including the Flintshire Furnace at Alport - 20th cent

30 - Notes from The Miners' Guide 1810: The Articles and Customs of the High Peak - 20th cent

31 - Glossaries from Mawe's Mineralogy of Derbyshire 1802 and from the Rara avis in terris or Compleat Miner 1738 - 20th cent

32 - Traced map showing Hucklow Edge Rake, Cross Low Vein, Black Hole Vein, Stoke Sough, Moorwood Sough - 20th cent

33 - Map (in ink) showing limits of mining area around Youlgreave and Middleton, Yatestoop Sough - 20th cent

34 - Sections of geological maps with keys: 71 NW, 72 NE, 81 SE, NE, 82 SW, NW [1868] - 20th cent

Strutt family of Belper

Strutt family of Belper

Bryan Donkin Company Ltd of Chesterfield, engineering firm

Bryan Donkin Company Ltd of Chesterfield, engineering firm

Strutt family of Belper

Strutt family of Belper

George M. Woodward (1767-1809), cartoonist

George M. Woodward (1767-1809), cartoonist

National Coal Board

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