NAMHO 2009

MATLOCK

Surface Trips

Throughout the weekend, there will be the opportunity to join some fascinating guided walks around historic lead mining areas. There will be a range of whole day, and half day trips, giving you the chance to mix and match them with lectures you wish to attend. There will be limited places on the surface trips and it is therefore essential to book your place as soon as possible. You will need to bring suitable equipment, such as appropriate footwear.

TRIP S01 – Pleasley Pit

Friday 19^th June, Afternoon

TIME	Meet at 14.00 - Finish 17.00.
LEADERS	TBA
TRIP GRADE	Easy (1)
DIRECTIONS	Pleasley Pit is easily reached via Junction 29 on the M1 by following the A617 east for five miles towards Mansfield. Leave the A617 at the major roundabout after a short section of dual carriageway, turning to the right into Pleasley village. Almost immediately turn right up Pit Lane. Those following the A38 north should go to its Junction 28 with the M1, then north. Return to Matlock back along the A617 over the M1 to Chesterfield, then the A632 to Matlock.
NOTES	Party size limited to 25, plus Leaders.
EQUIPMENT	Usual walking gear
DESCRIPTION	An easy walk around this former colliery site all the buildings remain in good order together with the steam winding engines and ancillary machinery.
BRIEF HISTORY	Pleasley Pit closed in 1983, but use of the South Shaft for ventilation delayed demolition of the engine house and headstocks buildings, which were scheduled as Ancient Monuments in 1996. The site has been run by the Friends since 1995 for the owners, English Partnerships. The engine-house has two engines back-to-back within it, a 1904 Lilleshall engine on the north and a 1923 Markham, 36 inch cylinder and 21 feet diameter drum, engine on the South. The smaller North engine is now restored and turned electrically and the South is undergoing restoration. Both restorations are huge projects and follow re-roofing of the house. A scheme to restore the headstocks is advanced. Not the least impressive feature of the visit is to go into the “undercroft” below the engines – quite another world.
FURTHER INFORMATION	Mining History – The Bulletin of the Peak District Mines Historical Society Volume 13, No.1. Summer 1996 – Pleasley Pit 1871-1983; Coal field and Heritage Regeneration Project.
REFRESHMENTS	Some shops towards Mansfield Woodhouse and also Glapwell

TRIP S02 – Magpie Mine

Friday 19^th June, Afternoon

TIME	Meet at 14.00 – Finish 17.00
LEADERS	Tony Wood & Mick Roberts
TRIP GRADE	Easy
DIRECTIONS	Details will be supplied to attending delegates when booking
EQUIPMENT	Usual walking gear, camera (optional), OS Explorer OL24 White Peak map useful
DESCRIPTION	Short surface walk around this magnificent and fascinating mine site. Some of the numerous and deep shafts will be illuminated. Uneven ground in places.
BRIEF HISTORY	Worked from the 1600’s, Magpie has a fascinating story to tell, from problems with water, to a case of murder in 1833. Various attempts have been made to work the mine, but the majority failed. The mine was finally closed in 1959. It is now the field centre for the PDMHS. The mine has one of the best preserved suites of mine buildings and associated surface features in Britain. The mostly ruined 19^th century structures include a large Cornish pumping engine house, miners dry and chimney; a horizontal winding engine house, boiler house, flue and chimney, the back end of the boiler house of an earlier winding house; the agents house and smithy; a small dressing floor engine house and buddle dams; a powder house, reservoir, quarries for the buildings and limekilns for mortar. There are also fine ginged engine and climbing shafts, coes, gin circles, a small buddle, a tramway embankment and hillocks. Twentieth century features include the headgear and a winding house.
FURTHER INFORMATION	‘Lead Mining in the Peak District’, edited by T D Ford and J H Rieuwerts (2000 edition) ‘Magpie Mine’ by L Willies: Mining History Volume 16, No 5
REFRESHMENTS	Cock & Pullet in Sheldon village

TRIP S03 – Mines & Soughs of Castleton

Saturday 20^th June, All Day

TIME	Meet at 10.30 – Finish 16.00 (Outside Castleton Visitor Centre)
LEADERS	Chris Heathcote and Phil Shaw (PDMHS Host Members)
TRIP GRADE	Easy/Moderate, 3-4 miles
DIRECTIONS	Park in main car park in Castleton Village (Pay and Display)
NOTES	Party size limited to 25, plus Leaders.
EQUIPMENT	Usual walking gear, camera (optional), OS Explorer OL24 White Peak map useful
DESCRIPTION	Circular walk on easy footpaths that are well used but muddy in parts. The well documented Odin Mine will be visited, where the surface opencut is visually stunning and Knowlegate Engine Shaft with its adjacent horse-gin circle and nearby ore-crusher. To reach Odin Mine the route will pass several airshaft mounds on Odin Sough started in 1816. Beyond Odin, the route then follows the foot of Treak Cliff, passing over the Newy Gates Vein, worked from at least 1714, and continues to the entrance to Speedwell Mine ‘showcave’ at the foot of the Winnats Pass, famous for its late 18^th century underground canal. Beyond the path follows the foot of Longcliff, passing the overgrown early 18^th century Longcliffe Levy driven into the eastern range of Longcliffe Vein. On reaching the outskirts of Castleton village the entrance to Peakshole Sough of 1770, located in Peak Cavern Gorge, will be seen. This sough was intended to be driven to the Longcliffe Vein but was abandoned before reaching its objective. We will then leave Castleton again, following Redseats Vein, worked for calamine as well as lead ore. Before reaching the small former mining hamlet of Black Rabbit at the foot of Pindale, part of Dirtlow Rake will be seen on the steep Siggate Side. Nearby are the late 19^th century surface remains at Ashton’s or Pindale Mine, which included a small 19^th century steam-engine house. The mine was drained by Pindale Sough from 1743 and worked the lead veins beneath a volcanic layer around Pindale. We will later pass an airshaft mound on the sough on our way back to Castleton.
BRIEF HISTORY	Oden Mine is one of the oldest in the Derbyshire orefield. It was first documented in the 13^th century, but may be considerably more ancient. It was eventually drained at depth by a series of soughs from the 17^th century onwards, of which Oden Sough was the deepest and latest. Dirtlow Rake was another major working of great age recorded from 1538. The other mines visited are mostly recorded from the 17^th/18^th century onwards, but some again may have earlier origins.
FURTHER INFORMATION	‘Lead Mining in the Peak District’ edited by T D Ford & J H Rieuwerts (2000 edition) ‘Lead Mining in Derbyshire: History, Development & Drainage 1. Castleton to the River Wye’ by J H Rieuwerts ‘Mining History, Vol 16, No 6 Castleton Liberty’ by Chris Heathcote
REFRESHMENTS	Bring packed lunch and drink

TRIP S04 – Winster and Back

Saturday 20^th June, All Day

TIME	Meet at 10.30 – Finish 15.00
LEADERS	Tony Wood and Mick Roberts
TRIP GRADE	Easy (1)
DIRECTIONS	Details will be supplied to attending delegates when booking
NOTES	Party size limited to 25, plus Leaders.
EQUIPMENT	Usual walking gear, camera (optional
DESCRIPTION	Starting from the Miners Standard Inn, we will set out on a figure of eight walk taking in the sites of Portaway, Lick Penny, Buck Dale, Wills Founder, Plackett & Horse Croft Mines; we will then walk around the village looking at the former shops and pubs. After refreshment break at the Miners Standard we will then take a walk out to the sites of the Winster Pitts, Drake, Horse Buttocks and Drummers Venture mines. Then a walk along occupation lane pointing out the site of the Yatestoop Mine and then back to the car park.
BRIEF HISTORY	Winster was at one time one a very important lead mining area, and one of Derbyshire’s main producers. In the 1700’s the introduction of the Newcomen pumping engine enabled the miners to dig deeper and in the mid 1840’s a hydraulic engine was installed at the Wills Founder Mine. This engine now forms the centre piece of the Peak District Mining Museum at Matlock Bath. Winster was also a self contained village, with numerous shops and public houses. There is not much to be seen now, but by taking a walk around the village it enables you to paint a picture of what life was like.
FURTHER INFORMATION	‘Lead Mining in the Peak District’, edited by T D Ford and J H Rieuwerts (2000 edition)
REFRESHMENTS	Miners Standard Inn, Winster

TRIP S05 – Old Show Caves of Matlock Bath

Saturday 20^th June, Morning

TIME	Meet at 10.00 – Finish 12.30
LEADERS	Peter Greaves
TRIP GRADE	Easy (1)
DIRECTIONS	Details will be supplied to attending delegates when booking
NOTES	Party size limited to 25, plus Leaders.
EQUIPMENT	Usual walking gear, camera (optional), OS Explorer OL24 White Peak map useful
DESCRIPTION	Matlock Bath – from mining to tourism, an insight into how Matlock Bath was developed from a lead mining area into the popular tourist attraction it is today.
BRIEF HISTORY	Lead mining has taken place around Matlock Bath since at least medieval times. It has often been claimed that particular mines are Roman and this may be so, but the reports originated as 19^th century tourist hype and no actual evidence exists. Mines such as those at Great Masson Cavern, Devonshire Cavern and probably those on High Tor were rich well before the 1600s. By the late 1700s visitors were coming in increasing numbers to Matlock Bath to take the spa waters. As an added attraction show ‘caves’ were opened and by 1830 there were nine, some on the slopes high above the spa town. For well over a hundred years Matlock Bath was a prosperous centre with a pavilion, grand hotels, gardens and woodland walks, shops and places for refreshments. In recent decades there has been a decline. Nobody takes the waters and several of the hotels have been demolished. Most of the show caves/mines are the preserve of mine explorers, but three are still open to tourists. The Pavilion is now the Peak District Mining Museum.
FURTHER INFORMATION	‘Lead Mining in the Peak District’, edited by T D Ford and J H Rieuwerts (2000 edition): ‘The Caverns and Mines of Matlock Bath’ by R Findall and A Hayes (1976); ‘Mining History’ (Bulletin of the PDHMS) Vol 13, no 5; Vol 14, no 6; Vol 15, no 3 ‘PDHMS Bulletins’ Vol 5, nos 2 and 4; Vol 8 no 2
REFRESHMENTS	Good choice in Matlock Bath

TRIP S06 – Masson Hill, Matlock Bath & Bonsall

Saturday 20^th June, Afternoon

TIME	Meet at 14.00 – Finish 17.00
LEADERS	Peter Greaves
TRIP GRADE	Moderate (2)
DIRECTIONS	Details will be supplied to attending delegates when booking
NOTES	Party size limited to 25, plus Leaders.
EQUIPMENT	Usual walking gear, camera (optional), OS Explorer OL24 White Peak map useful
DESCRIPTION	Overground on Masson Hill, a chance for anyone who is going on the Great Masson Cavern trip on the Sunday to see where they have been by linking surface and underground together.
BRIEF HISTORY	Scoured for lead since at least medieval times, Masson Hill has much to offer anyone interested in mining. There are vein deposits in faults, intersecting pipe and flatting deposits and replacement mineralisation. At surface many of the mine hillocks have been reworked for fluorspar but some good line mining examples remain. Shafts dating from medieval to the 19^th century in date still exist. At one there is 20^th century Heath Robinson plant from small underground extraction, which was working into the 1970s. More recently a rage quarry was created to opencast part of the flatting deposits for fluorspar.
FURTHER INFORMATION	‘Lead Mining in the Peak District’, edited by T D Ford and J H Rieuwerts (2000 edition) ‘Mining History’ (Bulletin of the Peak District Mines Historical Society) Vol 13 no 5; Vol 14 no 6; Vol 15, no 3 ‘The Caverns and Mines of Matlock Bath’ by R. Findall and A. Hayes (1976) ‘PDMHS’ Volume 8, No, 2
REFRESHMENTS	Greyhound PH or Linda’s Plaice, Cromford

TRIP S07 – Millclose Mine, Wensley

Sunday 21^st June, All Day

TIME	Meet at 10.00 – Finish 17.00
LEADERS	Keith Gregory
TRIP GRADE	Moderate (2)
DIRECTIONS	Details will be supplied to attending delegates when booking
NOTES	Party size limited to 25, plus Leaders. Walk maps will be made available for this walk
EQUIPMENT	Usual walking gear, camera (optional), OS Explorer OL24 White Peak map useful
DESCRIPTION	From the cricket ground we set off on a walk to take a look at Europe’s former largest lead mine. Walking up Oldfield Lane we head off into Cambridge Wood past the Old Millclose Sough tail, then up to Barley Close Mine, then into Wensley village and down into Wensley Dale to take a look at the outfall of Basrobin Sough which unwaters the Basrobin Mine higher up the hillside. From here, we will walk through the site of the Old Millclose Mine looking at the site of Hamber Grove Mine and Low Yate Grove. We also pass the blocked Rusin Reservoir and Forge Shaft. Walking through Cambridge Wood brings us to the London Lead Co’s 1748 fire engine shaft Engine and finally to Watts Shaft. Here are the remains of the engine house bob wall on which the beam of the engine rocked the flues to the chimney and the 420 feet deep Watts Shaft. From here, a walk through the woods leads us to the North Forefield Shaft of Yatestoop Mine. This is where a Newcomen Engine worked 550 feet underground in 1782. We then follow the course of Yatestoop Mine towards Winster passing the sites of Conqueror, Dragon and Old Bess shafts. Walking to the eastern end of Winster Village we take a look at the suggested site of the 1702 Yatestoop Founder Shaft. From here we walk down into the valley to look at the course of Weet Sough and finally onto the top end of Old Millclose Sough, passing the sites of Boltwood and the sough forefield shaft of 1756. We emerge from Clough Wood at the site of the Old Millclose Fire Engine Shaft and if time permits and permission can be gained, we will walk to the site of New Millclose Mine and see the Baby and Alice Pumping Shaft and hopefully we will be able to look down the large Jumbo Engine Shaft.
BRIEF HISTORY	This walk is steeped in history with Millclose Mine being traced back as far as 1617 and the Yatestoop Mine to 1702. The Yatestoop Mine is particularly interesting due to the fact that records show that a Newcomen Engine was lowered down the North Forefield Shaft in 1782 but no records state whether it actually came out again. Recent attempts to descend the shaft have found it to be blocked at 350 feet. One attempt to explore the shaft was made in 1973 with the aid of CCTV cameras. It also gives us a chance to take a look at how the area was drained, firstly by low level soughs driven from the nearest valley side and then by the 2 ½ mile long Yatestoop Sough which drained Yatestoop, Plackett, Wills Founder, Buckdale, Portaway Mine and Cow Close Mine branch level.
FURTHER INFORMATION	See ‘Lead Mining in the Peak District’, edited by T D Ford and J H Rieuwerts (2000 edition) Millclose the mine that drowned by Willies Parker & Gregory. And Mining History Volume on Old Millclose
REFRESHMENTS	Miner’s Standard pub at Winster

TRIP S08 – High Rake, Silence Mine and Tideslow Rake

Sunday 21^st June, All Day

TIME	Meet at 10.00 – Finish 17.00
LEADERS	Dave Williams
TRIP GRADE	Moderate (2)
DIRECTIONS/ PARKING	Details will be supplied to attending delegates when booking
NOTES	Party size limited to 25, plus Leaders.
EQUIPMENT	Usual walking gear, camera (optional), OS Explorer OL24 White Peak map useful
DESCRIPTION	This walk will explore several mines on one major vein, including two which have been PDMHS conservation projects. Tideslow Rake at the western end has impressive hillocks and opencuts, with old dressing ponds and leats, is a Scheduled Monument for its archaeology and a SSSI for its metallophyte vegetation. Further east massive hillocks have been reworked in the 20^th century for gangue minerals. However, High Rake Mine, where there was little visible, was resurrected by the PDMHS Conservation Team in 2000-2008. The foundations of several 1840s buildings have been exposed and conserved, including those of two steam engine houses, boiler houses and chimneys, as well as a cobbled coal yard, a capstan site, an ore crushing wheel and track, and various other dressing floor features. The highlight is the surviving lower part of a large 1843 Sims pumping engine house and condenser pit, buried within an 8m deep pit. Further east, at Silence Mine, there are the vestiges of a later 19^th century engine house, boiler house and other features where PDMHS archaeological excavations started in 2008 and are ongoing.
BRIEF HISTORY	Tideslow Rake is documented as at work in 1195 and produced nearly 13000 loads of ore between 1216 and 1249. It presumably continued to be worked intermittently for centuries. In the 17^th century there was a sough driven deep underground which drained water into natural caverns. In the 19^th century the surface hillocks were reworked for belland ore, in the process removing many of the various hilltop shaft tops and dressing floors. High Rake is likely to then equal early origins and had largely been worked down to a thick toadstone at depth by the mid 18^th century. In 1834 a speculative venture was started to reach rich deposits that were bound to exist in the limestone below. An old shaft was deepened and eventually a state of the art pumping engine by Sims and other equipment was installed. The shaft reached 720 feet depth without breaching the toadstone. The mine closed in 1852-53 after having lost the shareholders a small fortune. East of Great Hucklow the vein disappeared beneath a high gritstone outcrop and was first followed all along the steep scarp in the early 18^th century. Silence Mine was one of several mines with deep shafts through the shale to the vein developed at this time. In the later 19^th century a steam engine was installed but the mine closed in the 1880s.
FURTHER INFORMATION	‘PDMHS Bulletin’ Vol 2. No 4 ‘Lead Mining in Derbyshire’ – Development and Drainage 1 Castleton and the River Wye, by J H Rieuwerts (2007) ‘The Lead Legacy’ by J Barnatt and R Penny (2004)
REFRESHMENTS	Pub snack en-route or take packed lunch

TRIP S09 – Sheldon and Around

Sunday 21^st June, Morning

TIME	Meet at 10.00 – Finish 12.30
LEADERS	Adam Russell
TRIP GRADE	Easy (1)
DIRECTIONS	Details will be supplied to attending delegates when booking
NOTES	Party size limited to 25, plus Leaders – Walk maps will be supplied for this trip
EQUIPMENT	Usual walking gear, camera (optional), OS Explorer OL24 White Peak map useful
DESCRIPTION	This is a chance to take a short walk around Sheldon to take a look at another of its large mines – the Field Grove Mine. From Sheldon we walk up past the former Devonshire Inn to the top of the village and to Manor Farm. From here we can look over onto Magpie Mine and Hard Rake Mine. From Manor Farm, a walk along a country lane leading us down to Field Grove Mine. This gives us a chance to look down the impressive engine shaft and also take a look at the remains of what is thought to be either a coe or a mine office together with mine hillocks and old climbing shafts there is also a good example of a gin circle. From here we follow the Field Grove Vein across country to the second shaft which we can also look down. On this site there is a gin circle complete with centre stone. There are also the remains of a coe on the site. Continuing along the path, two more shafts can be inspected before following the lane back to Sheldon. Passing the Churchyard gives us a chance to look at the headstone of Ephraim Brocklehurst who fell to his death at the Magpie Mine in the 1800’s.
BRIEF HISTORY	By looking at the Magpie, Hard Rake and Field Grove mines it gives us a chance to look at three mines once owned by the noted William Wyatt. Wyatt lost a lot of money in various mining ventures.
FURTHER INFORMATION	‘Lead Mining in the Peak District’, edited by T D Ford and J H Rieuwerts (2000 edition)
REFRESHMENTS	Cock & Pullet pub at Sheldon

TRIP S10 – Ashford-in-the-Water

Sunday 21^st June, Afternoon

TIME	Meet at 14.00 - Finish 17.00.
LEADERS	Alan Keen (PDMHS).
TRIP GRADE	Easy (1).
DIRECTIONS	Details will be supplied to attending delegates when booking
NOTES	Party size limited to 25, plus Leaders.
EQUIPMENT	Usual walking gear
DESCRIPTION	An easy walk around the village of Ashford in the water to take a look at the black marble industry.
BRIEF HISTORY	The Marble mined here is not marble in its true sense. It is altered limestone that when it is cut and polished resembles marble. The marble industry in Ashford in the water was started in 1748 by Henry Watson; he built the first water powered stone saw mill on the River Wye where he also had a show room and stables. The Marble was originally obtained by quarrying methods but the amount of overburden having to be removed to get to the marble made it necessary for underground. This walk gives a chance to visit the mines and quarries where the marble was extracted, the saw mill where it was cut and by visiting the church get to see a table top made from black marble and the plaque dedicated to Henry Watson. The marble was used in stately homes and in churches. When polished it gives a jet black appearance, though after a while outdoors the marble soon goes back to a dull grey colour. It is used to make ornaments, table tops, fireplaces and bowls.
FURTHER INFORMATION	‘Lead Mining in the Peak District’, Edited by T D Ford and J H Rieuwerts (2000 edition). ‘Derbyshire Black Marble’ by J M Tomlinson (PDMHS Special Publication No 4, 1996).
REFRESHMENTS	Village shop & pubs in Ashford, otherwise good choice in Bakewell

TRIP S11 – Alport Mining Field

Sunday 21^st June, Afternoon

TIME	Meet at 14.00 – Finish 17.00
LEADERS	Tony Wood and Mick Roberts
TRIP GRADE	Easy (1)
DIRECTIONS	Details will be supplied to attending delegates when booking
NOTES	Party size limited to 25, plus Leaders.
EQUIPMENT	Usual walking gear, camera (optional), OS Explorer OL24 White Peak map useful
DESCRIPTION	The Alport area has a long complex history, with the miners digging ever deeper in their search for lead ore. This walk gives a chance to see first hand how they battled with their old enemy, water. From Youlgreave, we walk down into Alport to the site of the former aqueduct which conveyed water underground to the Broadmeadow and later Guy hydraulic pumping engines. Then, up to the Broadmeadow Cottages and the sites of Blythe and Prospect Mines together with the site of Broadmeadow Shaft and the recently restored Prospect Mine Powder House. Walking up Millfield Lane to Lower Greenfields Farm, gives us the chance to look down the impressive Pages or Great Shaft. From there we continue past Hollow Farm and dam, then to the Crash Purse and Pynet Nest Engine Shafts, and down into Bradford Dale, to Sidford Holm Shaft. Up to Youlgreave Church to look at the graves of the miners and mine manager who lost their lives in the Mawstone Mine disaster of 1932. From the graveyard we can look over onto the site of the Mawstone Mine where the disaster occurred.
BRIEF HISTORY	From the mid 1600’s the Alport Field was being drained using “wheels and tricks”. A series of low level soughs were then driven to the mines from the nearest valley side allowing the miners to follow the lead veins deeper. After the arrival of the deep and exceptionally long Hillcar Sough begun in 1766 in the area , which took 21 years to drive, the miners could dig even deeper. Richard Trevithick was contacted with a view to designing a hydraulic engine to pump water from deeper in the mine to sough level. This was first was installed in 1803 at Crash Purse Shaft - the last one in 1847 at the Starton Enclosure or Kirkmeadow Shaft.
FURTHER INFORMATION	‘Lead Mining in the Peak District’, edited by T D Ford and J H Rieuwerts (2000 edition) ‘The Mawstone Mine Disaster’ by A McCloy and N Wilson
REFRESHMENTS	George Hotel at Youlgreave

TRIP S12 – Ecton Copper Mines FULLY BOOKED

Monday 22^nd June, Morning

TIME	Meet at 10.00 – Finish 12.30
LEADERS	John Barnatt & Backstop
TRIP GRADE	Moderate (2)
DIRECTIONS	Details will be supplied to attending delegates when booking
NOTES	Party size limited to 12, plus Leaders. This walk introduces Ecton Hill and its mining and is followed in the afternoon by an underground trip into Clayton Mine.
EQUIPMENT	Usual walking gear, camera (optional), OS Explorer OL24 White Peak map useful
DESCRIPTION	A short walk (about 1-2 miles), but including a very steep walk up a high hill and back again. Looking at a wide variety of mine features including mine roads, buildings, a dressing floor, a Boulton & Watt engine house, shafts, adits, leats and spectacular pipe entrances.
BRIEF HISTORY	Copper mining took place on the high ridgetop in the Bronze Age. Later mining for copper, lead and zinc was extensive from the 1600’s to the 1880’s. There are a number of mines on the ridgetop but Deep Ecton and Clayton were pre-eminent. These reached over 1000 feet below river level. One of the first uses of gunpowder in a British mine took place between 1665-68. Deep Ecton was one of the deepest and richest mines in Britain in the 1760’s-80’s. The 19^th century saw a series of impressive speculative ventures attempting but failing to find further rich ore deposits.
FURTHER INFORMATION	‘Lead Mining in the Peak District’, edited by T D Ford and J H Rieuwerts (2000 edition): The Copper and Lead Mines around the Manifold Valley by Lindsey Porter and John Robey (2000) (Landmark): Ecton Copper Mines under the Dukes of Devonshire 1760-1790 by Lindsey Porter (2004) (Landmark): Mining History (Bulletin of the Peak District Mines Historical Society) Volume 14, No 4 and Volume 15, No 1.
REFRESHMENTS	Take packed lunch

TRIP S13 – MINIBUS TOUR

MINIBUS IS NOW FULL BUT PDMHS ARE TRYING TO ORGANISE A SECOND ONE DUE TO DEMAND

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED PLEASE CHECK

Monday 22^nd June, All Day

Accompanied minibus tour of mining sites. Your guide will be Jim Rieuwerts.

This trip is limited to 13 people and there will be an extra charge of £10.00 per

Person. Places to be visited are :-

· H J Enthoven & Sons Lead Recycling Works, Darley Dale

· Cromford

· Black Rocks and Gang Mine

· Moot Hall, Wirksworth (Lunch stop in this town)

· Bonsall Leys

· Winster Ore House and Village

Last updated 20th April 2009