"GRIDLET"|"EAST"|"NORTH"|"LIBERTY"|"SITUATED"|"ELEVATION"|"LENGTHUNIT"|"LENGTH"|"DEPTHUNIT"|"DEPTH"|"MINERAL"|"HISTORY"|"OS10000"|"SURVEYNO"|"VEINPRIME"|"VEIN2"|"VEIN3"|"NMRS02ID"|"NOTES"|"NAME" "SE"|780.00|7430.00|"Stonebeck Up"|"100 metres south-east of Low Riggs Farm; on north bank of How Stean Beck"|825.00|||||"Lead"|"A trial for the continuation of a vein seen in Armathwaite Gill"|"SE07SW"||"Armathwaite Vein"|||1644.00|"STEAN TRIAL SE07. 078743 Driven from the north bank of How Stean Beck, this trial level ì probably never reached the vein, which was also tried in ì Armathwaite Gill and exposed during the construction of the ì Bradford Corporation Aqueduct from its Angram and Scar House ì Reservoirs. "|"Stean Mine" "NY"|9964.00|365.00|"Arkengarthdale"|"A short distance north of the Octagon Smelt Mill"|930.00|"Km"|1.30|||"Lead"||"NY90SW"||"Blackside Vein"|||1573.00||"Smelt Mill Level" "SE"|1173.00|6438.00|"Bewerley"|"440 metres north-east of the Miners Arms"|1275.00|||||"Lead"|"Shewn on 1789 plan"|"SE16SW"|"A/ZM5"|"Sun Vein"|||1582.00||"Smithy End Shaft" "SE"|924.00|7276.00|"Stonebeck Down"|"700 metres west of Low Blayshaw Farm"|825.00|||"Fm"|18.00|"Lead"|"Sunk before Rodwell's survey in 1881"|"SE07SE"|"A/M17"|"Blayshaw Vein"|||1608.00||"Speakwath Shaft" "SE"|1530.00|6430.00|"Bewerley"|"Precise location unknown - driven from Ravens Gill area."|500.00||||||"The level was commenced c1813 and was offered for sale by auction in 1814 - ""A very fine level; called the Spirit Level; has been begun."""|"SE16SE"|||||1618.00||"Spirit Level" "SE"|1082.00|7242.00|"Stonebeck Down"|"200 metres north-north-east of Low West House"|475.00|||"Fm"|2.00|"Lead"|"Sunk in 1904 and abandoned on March 30th 1905. Worked by Cradock & Co."|"SE17SW"|"A/M15"|"Lolly Scar Vein"|||1755.00||"Thompson's Shaft" "SE"|1020.00|7550.00|"Stonebeck Up"|"440 metres south of Limley"|675.00|||||"Lead"|"See under: LEE'S MINE"|"SE17NW"||"Dry Wath Vein"|||1761.00||"Thorpe Mine" "SE"|1207.00|6339.00|"Bewerley"|"610 metres east of the Miners Arms"|1340.00|||||"Lead"|"Probably sunk by Thornhill before 1770. Shown on 1789 plan"|"SE16SW"|"A/ZM4"|"Sun Vein"|||1768.00||"Tinner Shaft" "SE"|1349.00|6427.00|"Bewerley"|"550 metres east of Toft Gate Lime Kiln"|1120.00|||"Fm"|77.00|"Lead"|"Sunk by the Eagle Mining Company as a borehole for ventilation c1837 when the air at the forehead became foul. In 1839; the shaft was sunk for 17 Fms before the air improved. The shaft was connected to a slant rise in 1840"|"SE16SW"|||||1771.00||"Toft Gate Air Shaft" "SE"|1140.00|6380.00|"Bewerley"|||||||"Fluorspar"|"See Memo field."|"SE16SW"||"Grenhow Rake"|||2179.00|"DUCK STREET BEWERLEY SE114638 Production: Fluorspar Ore(tons) Value(#) 1973-1975 No detailed return Mining Company: 1973-1975 R.C. CONWAY LTD "|"Duck Street" "SE"|1150.00|6390.00|"Bewerley"|"Covers the area from Keld Dyke to Toft Rigg; via Brandstone Beck"||||||"Lead"|"See Memo field. Sun Side Mine was a consolidation of various leases; including Cockhill; Gill Field; Galloway Pasture and Cold Stones"|"SE16SW"|"A/ZM3"|"Waterhole Vein"|"Sun Vein"|"Greenhow Rake"|1691.00|" THE SUNSIDE AND COCKHILL MINES SUNSIDE VEIN SE16. 119639 GREENGROOVES VEIN SE16. 121638 SIR THOMAS VEIN SE16. 119637 BLUE JOKE VEIN SE16. 119637 HADING VEIN SE16. 124636 FOLLY VEIN SE16. 125636 NEW SUN VEIN SE16. 126635 BLUE RIGG VEIN SE16. 115633 WEST GALLOWAY VEIN SE16. 113636 OLD GALLOWAY VEIN SE16. 114635 DUKE or NOWAYS VEIN SE16. 107635 PRIMEGAP VEIN SE16. 109639 CLEAVER VEIN SE16. 109638 GULF VEIN SE16. 112637 GREENHOW RAKE SE16. 113638 COCKHILL VEIN SE16. 111643 LUMB VEIN SE16. 109641 LORD NELSON STRING SE16. 108641 LORD HOWE STRING SE16. 108642 THE VIRGINS SE16. 108642 OLD MAN'S MISTRESS SE16. 108642 WATERHOLE VEIN SE16. 119643 SUN VEIN SE16. 122641 GARNET VEIN SE16. 124639 The Sunside-Cockhill Mine has worked upwards of twenty veins, ì running across the area between Greenhow and Coldstones Hills, ì known as Sunside, and the Galloway Pasture. Sir Stephen Proctor ì was working this group of veins in 1605 and, by this date, some ì of the workings were troubled by water. A drainage engine was ì erected at about this time by Jacob Howshold and Richard Taylor, ì but no details of its siting or construction are known. By the 1780's, all of the major veins had been discovered and ì numerous shafts sunk onto them, several being called engine ì shafts. The dividing line between the then-separate, Cockhill ì and Sunside leases was Sandy Beck. A hand driven level had been ì driven from just inside the Sunside ground, following the line of ì the beck, southwards, to the Waterhole Vein. This adit, called ì Jackass, or Hammond's, Level turned east on the vein for a short ì distance, with a connection to Carrington Shaft. THE COCKHILL MINE SE16. 114648 The Cockhill Level was driven from the side of Brandstone Beck, ì at 950 ft. A.O.D., in 1782, being cut to horse level size. It ì reached the Waterhole Vein, here called the Cockhill Vein, after ì a drive of 1,800 feet, in 1789. By 1800, the western branch of ì the level was nearly up to the lease boundary at Craven Keld, ì with workings on the Greenhow Rake, Primgap and Cleaver Veins. An agreement was made in 1795, between Edward Cleaver, John ì Yorke, the Mineral Lord of the Craven Moor Mines, and William ì Wood, lessee of the Craven Cross Mine, to carry forward the ì Cockhill Level into the Craven Moor ground. The Craven Keld ì boundary was reached in 1801, but a disagreement arose, between ì White, the Mineral Lord of the Cockhill and Sunside Mines, and ì William Wood, over the payment of royalties. This caused the ì level to be sealed off, thus stopping the drainage of water from ì the bottoms of Craven Cross Mine. The dispute was soon settled ì and the level reopened. This level, known as the 56 Fm. or Joint ì Level, was driven up to Bell's Engine Shaft, at Craven Cross ì Mine, by 1803. Whilst the shaft was being sunk to adit level, a ì toll of 1s 6d per waggon was charged for hauling out of Cockhill ì Level. In 1824, the mines were taken over by Thomas Hopper, and the ì Sunside Mining Company was formed. The Greenhow Rake proved to ì be a rich vein and, over the years, was explored for over 1000 ì feet to the SE at adit level and above, the vein outcropping over ì Greenhow Hill. Between the years 1859 and 1862, a sump was put ì down in the vein to a depth of 20 Fms. below adit level and ì workings made from it. In 1863, the workings had extended about ì 240 feet to the east, at the 20 Fm. level, and a 10 Fm. level was ì also being driven. Occasionally night shifts were worked on the ì pumps, it being usual to work two six hour shifts per day between ì 6am. and 6pm. The workings in the south eastern section of the mine were ì reached by the Sunside Level, driven from the head of Cockhill ì Level along the Sunside Vein for 1400 feet to the SW, until the ì Greengroves and Sir Thomas Veins were met. The Sir Thomas Vein ì was followed over a distance of 1200 feet, and was extensively ì stoped above the adit level. The oreshoots were, in the main, ì close to the grit cap, overlaying the limestones, and did not ì generally extend much below adit level in the central part of the ì ground. Most of the veins have considerable waste patches, in ì the form of gulphs, which are thought to be shakeholes formed on ì the fault planes. The gulphs, usually barren, consist of broken ì rock and clay, the walls showing heavy fluting and other signs of ì water action. One of these gulphs was encountered in the early ì part of the Sunside Level, and it let in a vast amount of sand ì and water, ""many thousand wagons of sand having to be drawn ì before the level could be driven under it. The surface over it ì was let down and the large empty space left in the rock was ì called by the miners, Dolly Hole, from being under Dolly ì Bentley's field"". The Sunside Mining Company, in one form or another, appears to ì have worked the mine from 1824 to 1878. Some confusion arises ì from the habit of referring to the company variously as the ì Cockhill Company and the Sunside Company. The Newbould family ì was concerned with the management of the mine from early in the ì 19th century. First came Nathan, followed by his son, Matthew, ì who was manager between 1860 and 1868. By 1875, the company had extended the engine sump on Greenhow ì Rake, sunk near its junction with Lumb and Fielding Veins. A 30 ì Fm. level was driven and the pumping set modified. The sump was sunk from a chamber cut into the vein wall. Three ì boilers were also housed in the same chamber. One, situated at ì the sump head, had the pumping engine mounted on it, the pitwork ì to the pumps being driven via rocker gear. The cylinders of the ì plunger-type pumps are said to have been about twelve inch bore. ì A donkey pump was sited at the 20 Fm. level stand, to assist in ì the first lift. Access to this pump was down a worked out vein, ì which haded at shallow angle. The smoke from the boilers was ì vented via a stepped flue, through old workings, to the foot of a ì 100 feet deep Chimney Shaft. The Sunside Level had been extended into the Sunside ground, and ì by the 1830's the whole network of veins was well developed at ì adit level. The principal access to these works was eastwards, ì along Sir Thomas Vein, to reach the Sun Vein, via Hezle and Folly ì Veins. To the south east, a connection was made, via the Blue ì Joke Vein and Blue Riggs (earlier Black Riggs), or North Forest ì Moor, Vein. In 1876, the Pateley Bridge Lead Mining and Smelting Company was ì working the mine. David Williams was manager. Little is known ì of this company, or its works. It worked the mine until 1889 and ì did more work down the Greenhow Rake Engine Sump, where the pump ì rod is said to have broken and blocked the sump. The subsequent ì flooding and the low price of lead discouraged the company from ì reopened the sump. David Williams and T. Hutchinson, the Mineral Lord, continued to ì hold the mine until 1900. It appears that little, if any, work ì was done during this time. SUNSIDE MINES SE16. 115649 About 1,400 feet east of the Cockhill Level, and some fifty feet ì lower, is the Coldstones Low Level or, as it is more often ì called, the Gillfield Level. This was commenced in 1782 and was ì driven up to the Waterhole Vein, by P. W. Overend & Co, in 1789. ì To the west the workings stopped in a gulph, about 200 feet east ì of Carrington Shaft. From the head of the crosscut the level was ì driven to the east along Waterhole Vein to its junction with the ì Sun Vein. The Waterhole Vein hades at between 10 and 20 degrees to the ì north, at adit level, but this rapidly increases to 45 degrees in ì the higher stopes because of the overlaying shale cap. The vein ì is over 10 ft. wide in places and has a marked tendency to swell ì and nip. The majority of the early workings were developed from shafts, ì which were sunk onto the Sun, Folly, and Haiding Veins. A large ì pipe, associated with the Garnet Vein and called the Pendleton ì Pipe, was being worked on Coldstones in 1784. By the 1830's most ì of the veins were connected, at adit level, to the Sunside Level ì from the head of Cockhill Level. From the Sun Vein Level of the Cockhill Mine, a 32 Fm. sump was ì put down to explore the junction of the Garnet and Sun Veins at ì the point where the united veins dip down the southern edge of ì the anticline. The sump was equipped with a steam pumping, and ì winding, engine, with the boilers housed underground and the ì smoke venting up an old shaft. The vein was, however, ì disappointing and not as productive as the upper sections. The ì company was contemplating the abandonment of the sump when, in ì 1839, the chimney shaft collapsed and forced the company's hand. ì The under levels were abandoned until the 1840's, when the Eagle ì Level partially drained them and some further work was done. In 1843, the best workings were in the Folly Vein and a report by ì Michael Collins gives a clear picture of the works. ""June 1843. ì The duty lead received is 20 pieces more than in the half year ì ending Dec. 1842 (320), and 80 pieces more than the produce in ì each of the preceding half years. More ore has been raised for ì some time back than usual, perhaps, in great part owing to the ì numbers of hands employed picking out in different parts of the ì mine. Some of the miners who have lately left Prosperous Mine ì have commenced working there. At present, the best workings are ì in the Folly Vein Under Level. They can sink about 17 Fms. in ì that vein in the summer season. From below that depth the water ì would have to be drawn. It is considered that the water is ì drained into the Eagle Level but that the duct is too small to ì take all the water after much rain or when the pressure is ì diminished. There are four men employed driving the Gillfield Level in the ì Sun Vein, four men in Hindmas Stand Trial, eight to nine men at ì other trials, and five wage men, about twenty in all"". 20th. CENTURY WORKINGS AND DEVELOPMENTS Following the Greenhaugh Mining Company's attempts to re-open the ì Craven Moor Mines (1915-19), the Cockhill Level was re-opened, in ì 1922, by the Bewerley Mines Ltd. This involved the rebuilding of ì the portal and cleaning out large amounts of sand from the ì crosscut, and re-laying the railway track with modern Jubilee ì rails. At the head of the crosscut it was found that the Sunside ì Level had collapsed, with sand and water issuing from the fall. ì To the west, the Cockhill Level had collapsed, at a place called ì the `Corkscrew', where the hanging wall of the Cockhill Vein ì hades steeply to the north. Very heavy timbering was required to ì hold the level open. Greenhow Rake was re-entered and the 30 ì Fms. Sump, which had been abandoned between 1880-90 when the pump ì rod broke and blocked the sump, allowing it to flood, was found ì intact with all its machinery, even down to the pressure gauges ì on the boilers. W.W. Varvill made an inspection at this time and ì reported ""that the old pumping set was capable of about 50 ì gals/minute and recommended that a 50 H.P. boiler and a sinking ì pump capable of 230-300 gals/minute be used to dewater the sump"". This was done the following year. The portable boiler was sited ì on the surface, at the collar of the chimney shaft, and steam was ì piped down the shaft to the pump. One of the old boilers was ì cleaned up and put to work, coal being brought in, and ash taken ì out, by a boy (Eddie Clarke) using a horse and a tub. Eddie ì maintained that the boiler man got the old engine running again. ì The sump was drained, with some difficulty, and the 30 Fm. level ì was entered and found to be blocked after a short distance. ì This, the large make of water, and the resulting high cost of ì pumping led to the abandonment of the sump before any work was ì done. Shortly after this time, J.H. Clay, of Thornton in Craven, took ì over the No.2 Shaft, at Craven Cross, from the defunct Pateley ì Mines Ltd., of which he was Managing Director. He also bought ì the leasehold of the shaft and the surrounding land. J.H. Clay ì then turned his attention to the Cockhill Mine and some stoping ì was done in the Cockhill Vein, for fluorspar. The Gillfield ì Level was re-opened and some considerable fluorspar stopes made ì in the Waterhole and Sun Veins. A gravity mill was erected near ì to the Cockhill Lead Smelter, but no details of this mill or its ì production are known. One surviving invoice is made out to the ì Caldbeck Company, Cockhill Mine, June 1936, and is for a 32 H.P. ì Blackstone Crude Oil Engine, from Cohen and Sons Ltd., London. ì The Caldbeck Company had ceased to operate the mines by 1938, the ì plant being robbed of materials in that year for its new mill at ì the Potts Gill Mine, in the Lake District. After this time, fluorspar continued to be worked from short ì levels, and shafts, driven into Greenhow Rake. The last of these ì was in the Greenhow Quarry , and was worked by George and Harry ì Mackwell, until it closed down in the late 1960's. George Boddy ì and George Mackwell had worked the Pendleton Pipe, and the dumps ì on Coldstones Hill, for many years. A small gravity mill was ì built to the west of Pendleton Pipe, near to the Maiden Engine ì Shaft. In the 1960's, some interest in the area was shown by some of the ì international mining concerns. Several deep boreholes were put ì down, and cored, into the Black Vein, at Merryfield, but no ì details of these are at present known. In 1971, two angled boreholes were put down across the line of ì the Waterhole Veins. No.3 was drilled from NGR. SE 11626460, at ì 1175 ft. A.O.D., at an azimuth of 162.5 degrees, dip 50 degrees, ì length 1091 feet 9 inches. The Waterhole North Vein was cut at ì 350 A.O.D., showing it to be five feet in width and carrying ì 21.5% CaF2, 0.08% Pb, 0.31% Zn. Waterhole South Vein is 7 feet 3 ì inches wide with 19.9% CaF2, 0.50% Pb, 0.16% Zn. Another hole ì which cut the Galloway Old, West and Primgap Veins showed them to ì be mainly calcite, with some iron. In 1976, the Northern Mine Research Society excavated the Chimney ì Shaft and entered the boiler house in Greenhow Rake. This was ì found to be a chamber, some 20 feet wide by 30 feet long, cut ì into the hanging wall of the vein. The remains of three boilers ì were found, but the engine and winding machinery had been ì removed. It is only possible to enter the boiler house at times ì of drought, when the water level drops and is only about five ì feet deep. SUNSIDE BEWERLEY SE115640 Production: Lead Ore(tons) Metal(tons) 1760-1814 No detailed return Mineral Lord: 17601814SEE UNDER BEWERLEY Mining Company: 1760-1782 THORNHILL & CO. 1782-1790 P.W. OVEREND & CO. 1800-1814 EDWARD CLEAVER & CO. SUNSIDE BEWERLEY SE123656 Production: Lead Ore(tons) Metal(tons) 1871-1898 No detailed return Comment: 1857-1860 SEE PATELEY DISTRICT 1871-1874 SUNSIDE & MERRYFIELD INC.NIDDERDALE 1875 NIDDERDALE 1877-1879 INC.MERRYFIELD Production: Zinc No detailed return Mining Company: 1871 NIDDERDALE MINING CO. 1872-1874 SUNSIDE MINING CO. 1877-1898 BURNABY & HUTCHINSON 1879 SUNSIDE & MERRYFIELD LEAD MINING CO. Manager: 1871-1874 WILLIAM MARSHALL Secretary: 1871-1879 THOMAS SYKES (S) Employment: Year Underground Surface Total 1877 4 1 5 1878 6 2 8 1879 4 3 7 SUNSIDE-COCKHILL BEWERLEY SE117637 Production: Lead Ore(tons) Metal(tons) 1829 626.92 1830 540.02 1831 64.95 1839 318.74 1840 273.20 1841 218.58 1842 259.55 1843 402.23 1844 282.32 Comment: 1829 MARCH TO DECEMBER 1831 JANUARY TO FEBRUARY 1844 JANUARY TO JUNE Production: Lead Ore(tons) Metal(tons) 1829 86.78 1830 74.25 1831 6.30 Comment: 1829-1831 SLAG LEAD 1795-1804 DRIVING JOINT LEVEL TO CRAVEN CROSS MINE 1800 INCLUDES SUNSIDE 1808 DRIVING LOW XCUT TO THORNHILL MEERS 1824 MERGED WITH NORTH COLDSTONES MINE Production: Lead Ore(tons) Metal(tons) Value(#) 1855 274.00 182.10 1856-1860 No detailed return 1861 367.80 239.00 1862 458.90 291.40 1863 423.60 309.60 1864 462.30 300.50 1865 199.90 134.00 1866 197.30 128.30 1867 204.00 153.00 1868 292.30 190.00 1869 277.40 180.30 1870 180.30 140.50 1871 128.50 92.00 1872 131.00 97.70 1873 92.60 69.40 1884 40.00 30.00 250.00 1885 20.00 15.00 130.00 1886 20.00 14.00 140.00 1887 50.00 1888-1893 No detailed return Comment: 1855-1900 FROM HUNT'S STATISTICS 1856-1860 SEE PATELEY DISTRICT 1862-1866 SILVER PRODUCER 1872-1873 INC.MERRYFIELD 1875-1883 SEE PATELEY BRIDGE 1922-1938 SEE COCK HILL Mineral Lord: 1800-1900 SEE BEWERLEY LIBERTY Mining Company: 1800-1814 EDWARD CLEAVER & CO. 1824-1855 THOMAS HOPPER - THE SUNSIDE MINING CO. 1860-1868 COCKHILL CO. 1869-1878 SUNSIDE MINING CO. 1887-1893 DAVID WILLIAMS 1894-1900 T. HUTCHINSON & DAVID WILLIAMS Manager: 1824-1836 NATHAN NEWBOULD 1836-1868 MATTHEW NEWBOULD 1869-1873 WILLIAM NEWBOULD 1874-1878 T. HUTCHINSON Employment: Year Underground Surface Total 1862 73 "|"Sun Side Mine" "SE"|1220.00|6570.00|"Stonebeck Down"|"Worked the Nidderdale and Merryfield Mines"||||||"Lead"|"See Memo field. Part of the mine was in Bewerley. The Nidderdale Lead Mining Company became the Sunside & Merryfield Lead Mining Company Ltd; which was incorporated on February 14th 1872."|"SE16NW"||"Black Vein"|"Providence Vein"||1692.00|"LIST OF SHAREHOLDERS George Priestley Smith Surgeon Bradford Howard Croft Bankers Clerk Bradford Josuah Hartley Sanitary Tube Manufacturer Normanton William Wadworth Wool Stapler Bradford David Snowden Machine Maker Bradford James Sutcliffe Surgeon Dentist Bradford Charles Phillips Stoneware Manufacturer Castleford James Rickard Grocer Castleford James Cheeseborough Grocer Normanton "|"The Sunside & Merryfield Lead Mining Company Ltd" "SE"|1188.00|6382.00|"Bewerley"|"520 metres east of Duck Street Quarry"|1325.00|||||"Lead"|"Also called: HASLAM SHAFT"|"SE16SW"|"A/ZM4"|"Sun Vein"|"Cleaver Vein"||1696.00||"Sun Vein Shaft" "SE"|1170.00|6443.00|"Bewerley"|"340 metres north-east of the Miners Arms"|1250.00|||"Fm"|45.00|"Lead"|"May have been sunk by Thornhill and it was in place by the time of Overend's law suit in 1789."|"SE16SW"|"A/ZM5"|"Waterhole Vein"|||1868.00||"Waterhole Shaft" "SE"|1090.00|6640.00|"Kettlewell"|||||||"Lead"|"See Memo field"|"NY90"|||||2254.00|"MOOR END KETTLEWELL SD955727 Production: Lead Ore(tons) Metal(tons) 1860 47.70 27.40 Comment: 1860 FROM HUNT'S STATISTICS 1860 SILVER PRODUCER Production: Lead Ore(tons) Metal(tons) 1874 0.60 1875 1.40 1876 3.45 1877 8.15 1878 5.15 1879 3.90 Comment: 1874-1879 SMELTED AT KETTLEWELL Mineral Lord: 1860-1879 TRUST LORDS OF KETTLEWELL Mining Company: 1860-1864 WHARFEDALE CO. Manager: 1860-1864 ROBERT PLACE Employment: Year Underground Surface Total 1862 5 "|"Merryfield" "SE"|1120.00|6600.00|"Ramsgill & Bewerley"|||||||"Lead"|"See Memo field"|"SE16"||"Black Vein"|"Merryfield Vein"||2255.00|"MERRYFIELD & PROSPEROUS RAMSGILL & BEWERLEY SE112660 Production: Lead Ore(tons) Metal(tons) 1965-1969 No detailed return Comment: 1965-1969 PROSPECTING Mining Company: 1965-1969 BEWERLEY MINES LTD "|"Merryfield & Prosperous" "SE"|1236.00|6553.00|"Bewerley"|"300 metres west of Brandstone Dub Bridge; on Vipoints Hill."|850.00|||"Fm"|20.00|"Lead"|"Sunk by the Nidderdale Mining Company in 1863. It was soon abandoned."|"SE16NW"|"A/ZM459"|"South Vein"|||1844.00||"Vipoints Shaft" "SE"|1150.00|6439.00|"Bewerley"|"170 metres north-north-east of the Miners Arms"|1250.00|||||"Lead"|"Sunk before 1770 by Thornhill. Shewn on 1789 plan."|"SE16SW"|"A/ZM5"|"Waterhole Vein"|||1854.00||"Wall Nook Shaft" "SE"|888.00|7279.00|"Stonebeck Down"|"1.06 Km west of Low Blayshaw Farm on Stean Pasture"|875.00|||"Fm"|13.00|"Lead"|"Sunk by Cradock & Co c1901 to work the western end of Blayshaw Mine"|"SE07SE"|"A/M17"|"Blayshaw Vein"|||1904.00||"West Shaft" "SE"|1170.00|6391.00|"Bewerley"|"350 metres east of Duck Street Quarry"|1275.00|||"Fm"|23.00|"Lead"|"See under: NEWBOULD'S SHAFT"|"SE16SW"|"A/ZM4"|"Sir Thomas Vein"|||1923.00||"Whim Shaft" "SE"|1150.00|6414.00|"Bewerley"|"140 metres south-south-east of the Miners Arms"|1260.00|||||"Lead"||"SE16SW"|"A/ZM5"||||1967.00||"Wind Shaft" "SE"|1170.00|6380.00|"Bewerley"|||||||"Ironstone"|"See Memo field."|"SE16"|||||2071.00|"COLDSTONES ALLOTMENT BEWERLEY SE117638 Production: Lead Ore(tons) Metal(tons) 1800 No detailed return Comment: 1800 SEE ALSO SUNSIDE AND NORTH COLDSTONES Mineral Lord: 1800 SEE UNDER BEWERLEY Mining Company: 1800 EDWARD CLEAVER & CO. "|"Coldstones Allotment" "SE"|1273.00|6629.00|"Bewerley"|"1.53 Km west of Heathfield Smelt Mill; on Ashfoldside Beck"|650.00|"m"|900.00|||"Lead"|"Driven in the early C19th; probably by Horner & Co."|"SE16NW"|"A/ZM136"|"Black Vein"|"North Vein"||1973.00||"Wonderful Level" "SE"|1156.00|6442.00|"Bewerley"|"190 metres north of the Miners Arms"|1250.00|||||"Lead"|"Sunk before 1770; probably by Thornhill. Shewn on 1789 plan"|"SE16SW"|"A/ZM5"|"Waterhole Vein"|||1979.00||"Woodhouse Shaft" "SE"|1163.00|6612.00|"Stonebeck Down"|"20 metres east of the aquaduct crossing Ashfoldside Beck"|850.00|||"Fm"|55.00|"Lead"|"Also called: WOOD'S ENGINE SHAFT. Sunk jointly by Wood and Horner to pump both Prosperous & Providence and the Merryfield Mines. It was fitted with waterwheel powered pumps"|"SE16NW"|"A/M143"|"Black Vein"|"Providence Vein (or)"||1984.00||"Wood's Shaft" "SE"|820.00|7790.00|"Stonebeck Up"|||||||"Coal"|"See Memo field."||||||1986.00|"WOOGILL COLLIERY MIDDLESMOOR NZ Mining Company: 1882 Matthew Dolphin 1884-1892 Dolphin & Bros. Manager: 1882-1892 T. Dolphin Employment: YEAR U/G SUR 1882 ? ? 1884 ? ? 1885 ? ? 1886 ? ? 1887 ? ? 1888 ? ? 1889 ? ? 1890 ? ? 1891 ? ? 1892 ? ? "|"Woogill Colliery" "SE"|1187.00|6613.00|"Stonebeck Down"|"75 metres west of Prosperous Smelt Mill; on north bank of Ashfoldside Beck"|780.00|"Km"|1.26|||"Lead"|"Reputedly driven c1752"|"SE16NW"|"A/ZM9"|"Black Vein"|||1999.00||"Yorke Level" "SE"|1180.00|6600.00|"Bewerley"|"1.85 Km north-north-east of the Miners Arms"||||||"Lead"|"See Memo field."|"SE16NW"|||||2011.00|" THE PROSPEROUS & PROVIDENCE MINE NORTH BLACK VEIN SE16. 118660 SUN VEIN SE16. 118659 SOUTH STRING SE16. 118659 This mine has been the most productive of all the Greenhow Mines ì and has been worked from a very early date. It is not recorded ì when or by whom the great ore shoot on the Black Vein, on which ì the mine was founded, was discovered. A partnership of Lupton and Barker held the lease from 1781 to ì 1793 when, as previously stated, John Wood took over the mine and ì sank Wood's Shaft , to pump from a drift 15 Fms. below the Yorke ì (Adit) Level. The mine was, by now, producing enough ore to ì warrant the building of a smelt mill, which, in its final state, ì had two ore-hearths and one roasting, or slag, hearth, with ì waterwheel-powered bellows. Sir Thomas White's adit, the Wonderful Level, entered the mine at ì its western end where, at 433 Fms. from its portal, a connection ì was made with the Smelt Mill Shaft. By 1814, the Wonderful Level ì had been driven past Wood's Shaft, at 583 Fms. from the portal. ì The steam engine at this shaft, which had replaced the original ì waterwheel in 1802, was itself replaced by a 48 feet diameter ì waterwheel. The engine may have been re-erected at the ì Providence Shaft. By the late 1820's the workings had reached a depth of 30 Fms. ì below Wonderful Level, with pumps at Wood's, Smelt Mill and ì Providence Shafts. The Smelt Mill Shaft held three waterwheels, ì driven by the same stream of water, the upper, 20 feet diameter, ì wheel supplied power, via a vertical drive shaft and crown wheel ì at the shaft eye, through a pinion and horizontal drive shaft, to ì the dressing mill. The other two wheels, 36ft. and 30ft. ì diameter respectively, drove pumps lifting water to the Wonderful ì Level. After a three year period of weak prices, 1829 saw the start of a ì severe depression in lead prices, from a price of £18 a ton in ì 1829, to less than £12 a ton by 1832. This depressed state ì continued for 20 years, the price of pig lead averaging £17 15s ì per ton. The mines were severely affected and never fully ì recovered. In spite of cutting costs and reducing wages by 50%, ì maintenance and development was nearly at a standstill, and in ì 1837, Yorke maintained that he had received nothing in royalties ì from the Merryfield Mines. Stoney Grooves was stopped and ì Merryfield was only working the richest parts of the veins. ì College and Storey Levels had collapsed in many places. ì Prosperous and Providence Mine was in a similar state, with many ì of its levels blocked. William Watson held the lease for the Merryfield and Providence ì Mines at this time. Before the depression he had sunk the ì Providence Engine Shaft to 38 Fms. below Wonderful Level, where ì the top of the limestone had been met with on the footwall. The ì vein proved to be poor and, although it was reported to be ì fourteen yards wide, it does not appear to have been tried over ì any great distance. Despite the depression, the mine produced ì 3,960 pigs, of 1.5 cwt each, from January to December 1837 and ì 2,400 in the following year. Michael Collins, the Mineral Lord's ì agent, reports on the mine give invaluable detail:- PROSPEROUS & PROVIDENCE MINE June 21st 1839. For some time past, owing to deficient supply of water to drive ì the waterwheels, the water has been gaining upon them in the ì lower workings of these mines and they are, for the present, ì standing and must remain so until sufficient rain falls to raise ì the springs and becks permanently. The water, as it rises, fills up all the workings and natural ì cavities in the vein and strata for some distance and it is ì consequently a very tedious operation to pump it out again after ì the necessary power is obtained. The steam engine, owing to the extra stress upon it, has given ì way, in some part or other, several times. None of the workings ì that are now laid under water are what can be called rich in ore, ì most of them being very poor, and the same can be said of those ì above water. The New Vein (new in that part of the ground) mentioned in the ì last report as having been cut and as having a promising ì appearance, does not improve as much as might be expected. The ì workings in it are now underwater, with the rest of the lower ì ones. Mr. Watson is not yet making any trial of importance, ì still giving the reasons before mentioned, for not proceeding in ì a spirited manner, that the agreement relating to the working are ì not yet signed. He has not, however, in the best of times been ì particularly remarkable for making trial . The only ì demonstration that he is at present making of intention to ì re-open the Stoney Grooves Mine is the opening out of College ì Level, in Mr. Yorke's ground, which is considered to be ì preparatory to re-opening Storey's Level, which was driven ì through Merryfield to the lower end of Stoney Grooves. June 21st 1840. The produce of Prosperous and Providence Mine this half year ì equals that for the last (220 pieces of duty lead) and the total ì produce for the past year is 40 pieces more than that for the ì preceding year. Still, the general complaint is, that the mine ì is poor, and upon examination of the workings and the bouse ì brought to the surface, the complaint will not be considered ì unreasonable. The ore is still, as stated in former reports, ì raised chiefly from what may be considered the older parts of the ì mine, no new ground of much importance having lately been opened. ì In consequence of this nearness to former workings, nothing very ì particular can be expected for if, as about the close of the last ì half year, any workings assume a more promising aspect, the ì miner, generally, is anticipated by the `old man'. The fact of ì the Prosperous and Providence having held out better than from ì appearances might have been expected, may probably be accounted ì for by considering the strength of the vein, and great body of ì mineral mixed with the orecontained in it, as compared with the ì Greenhow Hill veins, making it stand working for a long time, ì while other veins are comparatively soon exhausted. At this ì mine, most of the ore has been raised within a length of about ì 150 Fms. and, when it is considered that more ground remains ì almost untried to the eastward than has hitherto been wrought, ì there is good reason to think that, under proper management, the ì mine might again be very productive, even though the appearance ì of the eastern forefields may not warrant the expectation that it ì will be as rich as the older ground, which indeed can scarcely be ì expected, when it is considered, that, probably, no piece of ì ground in Yorkshire of the same extent has been more productive. ì The 30 Fm. level is now continued into Merryfield and is driving ì in the vein, which however, is but poor. The preparations for opening Storey's Level are still going on, ì but it is much to be wished that this work were carried on more ì quickly, as the opening of this level to Stoney Grooves would be ì an important point gained. REPORT FOR THE HALF YEAR ENDING: JUNE 21st 1841 PROSPEROUS, PROVIDENCE & STONEY GROOVES MINES These mines continue near the same in appearance and produce as ì at the close of last half year, no new discovery of any ì importance having been made since that time, but in other respect ì considerable changes have taken place. Before the 15th April, Mr ì Watson disappeared, and on that day the premises were entered ì upon by Mr. Eddy (Stephen) of Grassington, said to be acting for ì Messrs. Cockerell & Co., Bankers, London, understood to be Mr. ì Watson's creditors to a large amount. Subsequently, the ì Yorkshire District Banking Co., also creditors, have by ì arrangement with Messrs. Cockerell & Co. continued the working of ì the mine and have appointed Mr. John Ingleby, of Pateley Bridge, ì their manager or agent here. The terms on which Mr. Watson has ì resigned the management of the mines to these parties are not ì distinctly known. It has long been noticed that Mr. Watson has carried on the Mines ì without observing or fulfilling the conditions contained in the ì Leases and Agreements by which he holds them. Those Leases and ì Agreements may therefore be considered null and void and notices, ì to that effect, were on the 1st of June delivered to Mr. Watson, ì or in his absence to those still considered to be his agents. ì Copies being reserved to be delivered to himself if he could be ì found. Copies of the notices relating particularly to the ì working of those mines were put up at Stoney Grooves and ì Prosperous. The notice enumerated the different works and trials ì Mr. Watson, has at different times, agreed to carry on and keep ì up. Many of them have never been begun, and the others have only ì been partially attended to. The Stoney Grooves mine has scarcely ì been touched for many years. Wonderful Level should have been, ì and might have been, driven up to that mine but has long been ì neglected, and is now nearly, or entirely closed in many places. ì Byanother condition, various top levels were to be driven, the ì first of which was to be begun near Goodham Syke, and to be ì continued southerly to Thiesby Gill. This level would have cut ì the Goodham Syke Vein, which is always considered a good chance, ì within 100 Fms. No veins are known to cross Hardcastle Moor, ì south of Goodham Syke Vein, but there possibly may be others. ì This level, if prosecuted, would of course have proved whether or ì not there are any. By the conditions of another Agreement ì Storey's Level should have been opened up through Merryfield so ì as to reach Stoney Grooves, but as yet, very little progress is ì made in it, though to open this level is not considered likely to ì be either difficult or expensive. If done, it would unwater a ì considerable depth below Stoney Grooves Level, perhaps the best ì part of the vein which is yet unwrought. The different trials ì and levels working when Mr. Watson was here are still going on, ì but they are trifling compared to what ought, according to the ì last Agreement, to have been done, or doing. The 30 Fm. level is ì driving eastwards with four men, and westwards in Merryfield with ì four. It is the best level in the mine, but is still short of ì the dimensions stipulated. The 22 Fm. level eastwards is open, ì and much used as a way-gate, but is low, narrow and inconvenient. ì The 15 Fm. level may be reckoned at present the principal ì way-gate. It is driven about 250 Fms. east. The chief workings ì above and below this level are a considerable distance from ì Providence Shaft eastwards. Though the best way-gate except the ì 30 Fm. level, this level is but inconvenient. It seldom measures ì 5ft. in height by 3ft. in width (which dimensions if regular ì would be sufficient) for most under-levels, and is often much ì less. The Wonderful Level eastwards, is closed, and westwards is ì much out of repair. There is a crosscut taken out of the 15 Fm. ì level about 10 Fms. east of the Engine Shaft, in which two men ì are employed. It is driven about 25 Fms. south, and appears ì likely to cut the south vein soon. There are about seventy ì menemployed in the Prosperous, Providence and Merryfield Mines, ì exclusive of the dressers, and others employed at the surface. ì Of these there are employed getting ore Between Wonderful and 15 Fm. levels about 16 men. ditto 15 Fm. and 22 Fm. levels about 17 men. ditto 22 Fm. and 30 Fm. levels about 7 men. Most of their workings are considerably east of the Engine, or ì Providence Shaft. Getting ore at Prosperous chiefly between the 22 Fm. and 30 Fm. levels. 10 men But some at higher level repairing. 2 men South Crosscut driving. 2 men Driving 30 Fm. level east. 4 men At dead work. 8 men At Prosperous and Providence. 5 to 8 men At Merryfield driving the 30 Fm. level east. 4 men ditto. Repairing Storey's Level. 4 men ditto. Repairing Alex Shaft. 4 men ditto. At dead work. 12 men Of the 70 men or thereabouts working in the Prosperous, ì Providence and Merryfield Mines, 50 are getting ore and 20 ì employed at the different levels and trials. By the agreements it appears that the different levels should ì have been driven eastward to the ground end, and the 30 Fm. level ì west through Merryfield, all of the dimensions of 7ft. high and ì 4ft. wide, which is uncommonly, and generally considered ì unnecessarily, large. The propriety or advantage of driving ì under-levels to great distances through dead lengths of vein is ì also very doubtful. It would drain the water of both the dead ì and productive parts, much of which otherwise might not find vent ì or entrance into the workings and, thus probably, overpower the ì engines. Suppose if possible to drive the 30 Fm. level to Stoney ì Grooves, what an immense additional quantity of water must be ì brought to the Providence Shaft. The chief object should be to ì get proper day levels driven to try new ground, and have the ì shafts, under-levels, and other principal way-gates made by the ì mining company or companies, and necessary for the present or ì future working on the mines, kept open and in repair. A shaft ì ought to have been sunk in Sunside Pasture. This is quite ì necessary and any mining company, not embarrassed as Mr. Watson ì appears to have been, would have probably done it long since, ì even without any express stipulation to that effect. It may not be improper to mention that the Perseverance Level, ì being deeper than Wonderful, by about 8 Fms., appears better ì adapted for trying the mining ground than that level. It is ì driven nearly to Green Moor, which piece of ground it was ì intended, and expected, to enter and try, and thence may easily ì be continued through Prosperous etc. It is deeper than Eagle ì Level, and is more likely for trying the North side of the ì Greenhow Hill mines than that level. The distance between its ì forefield and the Gillfield Mine might be driven in a moderate ì space of time. December 21st 1841. The produce of the Prosperous & Providence Mines for the half ì year ending June 21st 1841, was as per account. Company's lead ì 1100 pieces, duty 220 pieces. For part of this year up to ì September 1st the produce is, Company's lead 900 pieces, duty 180 ì pieces, which are inserted in the regular account as usual. The ì three months after delivery of the notices relating to the ì working of the mines expired on the 1st of September, the Agent ì received directions not to accept any duty lead at Prosperous and ì Providence after that time, till further orders. The mine is ì still wrought in the same manner, and by the same parties as at ì the close of the last half year, and since the 1st September, ì they have at six different times weighed. Company's lead 895 ì pieces, duty 179 pieces. Before each weighing they gave written ì notice, and after weighing leave an account of the quantity ì weighed, full particulars on the overweight etc. A person ì attends at the weighing and keeps account, most probably as a ì witness for the company that the duty is properly rendered. The ì duty lead is marked with the Eagle The total produce for the year is therefore, Company's lead 1795 ì pieces and Duty lead 359 pieces. The great increase cannot be referred to any real improvement in ì the mine, though there have been some moderate workings at ì different times during the last six months, but it is owing ì chiefly to the encouragement given to the men to get out the ore ì in sight, and in consequence it cannot be expected that this rate ì of produce can be kept up long. By an examination of the ì principal parts of the mine, made on the 10th December, the ì workings were found poor in general and the way-gates very bad, ì even worse than they have often before been reported. Indeed, it ì is impossible to carry out the mine for long without considerable ì outlay in repairs. The present holders have not done any repair ì to speak of in the way-gates, but they are repairing Asquith's ì Shaft, near Merryfield, for a drawing shaft, and are making ì dressing places there. They are also preparing to erect a new ì waterwheel in place of an old one, the castings etc. being made July 21st. 1842. The Prosperous and Providence Mine has kept up the usual rate of ì produce this last half year, but, at present, owing to a ì deficiency of water for wheels, the water in the lower workings ì is very troublesome, and, indeed, for some time back, has ì prevented access to them. The steam engine is used, but it ì scarcely keeps the water down so that the air does not circulate ì right, and besides it is so expensive, being out of repair, that ì the mine will not pay its own expenses when it is used. The ì supply of water on the ground is considered amply sufficient to ì draw the water from the present depth of the mine, if properly ì applied , and if the Perseverance Level was brought up from the ì eastward, and the water of the other beck also used. It is ì believed that there is water power sufficient to drain the mine ì to twice its present depth below the day level, even to reach the ì limestone strata. The company is making at present a drain to ì retain some of the surplus water when it falls. A company commenced driving a Level, of about 85 Fms., to cut the ì Goodham Syke Vein, but coming at a very hard grit have given it ì up, at least for the present. Scarcely a miner can be spoken to ì who does not think well of the Goodham Syke Vein, on account of ì the fine samples of ore found in the Top Level driven about 30 ì years since. There is Stoney Grooves also, and the untried ì ground still westward, forming together, a promising field for ì mining enterprise. It is supposed that Stoney Grooves Mine has ì not been wrought much below the day level, which is only a ì trifling depth compared to what has been reached at Prosperous, ì Providence, and Merryfield, so that the bringing up of a lower ì level might be advantageous. The opening of Storey's Level through Merryfield proceeds but ì slowly. Operations there will probably be hindered by the ì running in of Merryfield High Shaft lately. The present owners ì of the mine do not appear to apply anything beyond what the mine ì itself produced to the necessary repairs, trials etc. This will ì not do. There must apparently be an application of capital ì before the mine can recover from the consequences of many years ì of mismanagement, and be restored to anything like its former ì flourishing condition. December 21st. 1842. The produce of duty lead at Prosperous and Providence from:- December 1840 to June 1841. 220 pieces. June 1841 to December 1841. 360 pieces. December 1841 to June 1842. 260 pieces. June 1842 to December 1842. 180 pieces. Mr. Watson disappeared two or three days before April 15th. 1841. ì Immediately after which event the produce increased as shown ì above. Not, however, from any real improvement, or anything ì fresh having been discovered but in consequences of a more ì rigourous working of the mine, and the dressing up of the ore, ì slags, etc. left at the surface. Since then it will be observed, ì the produce has again fallen off so that the quantity smelted ì during the past half year is only half that in the half year ì ending December 1841. At the present, there are a few workings ì about Asquith's Shaft, and in Providence, somewhat better than ì the common run of workings, but all in or near the old workings ì so that their continuance cannot be reckoned upon. A great part ì of the slags and the best of the wastes are now dressed up. ì Owing to the late dry season and the bad repair of the ì waterwheels etc., the 30 Fm. level and the lower levels have been ì much underwater. But there is a new waterwheel constructing, and ì now nearly ready foroperation, and, as the rains have brought a ì better supply of water for the wheels, the mine will probably be ì better drained in future. On the 29th. of November last, in consequence of directions ì received, the duty lead which had accumulated about the Mill, was ì removed, and is now lying at Low Wood, to the amount of 621 ì pieces:- all except 9 weighed and laid out as duty since 1st. of ì September 1841. The way-gates, as may indeed be expected, continue bad, and the ì mine is evidently in the course of working out. A considerable ì outlay in repairing the main way-gates and opening the new ground ì is now quite necessary. June 21st. 1843. In addition to the 621 pieces of duty lead, at Low Wood, there ì were weighed and removed to the same place up to April 6th 1843, ì 202 pieces, so that the total quantity at Low Wood up to April ì 6th was 823 pieces. At the close of last half year, the mine was ì in the possession or management of the Yorkshire District Banking ì Company, which company had had the carrying on of the mine since ì about the time Mr. Watson left in April 1841, Mr. John Ingleby ì being its Agent or Manager here. About the end of January 1843, ì a letter was prepared and sent to the different Directors of the ì Bank, complaining of the great injury the mine was sustaining ì through the mismanagement of its Agents. About the same time, ì there was a rumour of an intended removal of the machinery and in ì consequence notice was delivered to the acting agents, and put up ì at the mine, warning the parties in occupation or their workmen ì against such removal. It is thought, however, no removal of ì machinery was ever intended. On the 7th June 1843, I accordingly received instructions to take ì formal possession of all the different mines of which Mr. Watson ì was still considered the lessee. There was no opposition ì whatever to my taking possession. A great number of the workman ì were on the premises who witnessed the proceedings and heard what ì was said, but there was no person to be seen who claimed to be ì acting as agent or to have any authority either from Mr. Watson ì or Mr. Ingleby. Did not enter any of the buildings or offices, ì but merely went upon the different mines and in the evening ì nominated two men to keep possession who were, however, soon ì discontinued, as it was not thought necessary for them to remain. ì In the afternoon of the same day, saw Mr. John Watson, Clerk at ì the Mine. He declined to put me in peaceable possession of the ì office, saying he had no authority to do so but referred me to ì Mr. John Ingleby. In the evening, I saw Mr. John Ingleby on the ì subject. He said he now had nothing to do with the mine as he ì had given up to Mr. Watson, by letter, the night before. From the 6th to the 28th April, little, if any work, was done in ì the mine underground, but Mr. John Watson still continued in ì possession of the different buildings etc., and kept the pumping ì machinery at work. Under his direction also, a quantity of old ì stuff or waste was dressed and the ore produced from it smelted. ì He gave notice for weighing it on Friday the 28th, but for some ì cause did not weigh at the time fixed on. On the 28th April, I went with Mr. Manwaring to take complete ì possession of the mine. Entered and took possession of all ì buildings we found open, including the Smelting Mill, and left ì two men to remain in the mill and on the premises to keep ì possession. On subsequent days, found other buildings and places open, and ì consequently entered and took possession of them, and on the 8th ì May found the door of the Office unlocked, so that from that time ì the mines and all belonging to them have been in possession. Upon taking possession on the 28th April, found 12 pieces of lead ì in the Mill, which had been produced from the above mentioned old ì stuff. In consequence of threats of breaking into the Mill in ì order to recover possession, the 12 pieces were on the 5th May ì removed to Bayne Moor's house, Low Wood. At different times since my taking possession I have received ì notices etc. most of them written or copied by Mr. John Watson, ì as Agent for the Lessee of the mines, some apparently in Mr. ì William Watson's own hand writing. These have regularly been ì delivered to Mr. Manwaring, who has transmitted them for ì inspection of the other proprietors or Mr. Owen. Several such ì notices also put up at the mine, and other places, have been in ì the like manner transmitted for consideration. On the other ì hand, notices relating to the possession and the working of the ì mines, removal of lead etc. have been delivered to the parties ì named in due form, and true copies kept. With respect to the state of the mines, the workings are ì generally poor, and no great or permanent improvement can be ì expected till very considerable expense be incurred in making ì trial in new and unwrought parts of the mining ground. Being in ì general obliged to give 40/- per bing, the highest price for ì raising the ore, there is comparatively little profit in the lead ì produced. These mines require much wood, and, if the workings be ì neglected any length of time, they, in general, close and cannot ì be re-opened without much trouble and expense, being in this ì respect much different from the workings in the Sunside Mine ì where, from the nature of the limestone rock and veins, the ì workings mostly remain open and may be left off and resumed at ì pleasure, and may thus be wrought over and over again. One or ì two partnerships have pretty fair workings, particularly one near ì Asquith's Shaft found by the men in making trial this month, ì June. It still continues moderate good, but the old workings are ì near. Lead on hand, the produce of Prosperous and Providence Mines. Duty lead from August 31st 1841 to 823 pieces. April 6th 1843, and now at Low Wood 2283 lbs. over The before mentioned 42 pieces. Weighed for the Proprietors since April 116 pieces. 5th and belonging to the May A/c. 337 lbs. over. Total 1011 pieces, 2660 lbs over. The lead smelted for June A/c ì to add. The expense attendant upon the working of the Prosperous and ì Providence Mine and repairing the waterwheel at Merryfield etc., ì for the month of May, as per pay bill, was £149 10s 8d. The ì quantity of lead smelted was 146 pieces. December 21st. 1843. The new shaft, on Sun Side Pasture, called Sir Thomas Shaft, is ì sunk 23 Fms. at which depth there is a spring of water so strong ì that it is now necessary to bore, and the boring is commenced, 8 ì men being employed on it. At the depth of 22 Fms., there is a ì crosscut nearer to the south intended to cut the South Vein ì which, at the depth of the 15 Fm. level, is south of the shaft, ì and very strong. The crosscut has been driven 20 Fms. without ì cutting the vein which makes it certain that the vein hades, or ì inclines, from the perpendicular very much, either north or ì south. If the top leans over to the south, then it is yet to ì cut, if to the north, then it has passed to the north of the ì shaft, The boring will probably determine this. Four men are ì driving across from the 7 Fm. level to the North Vein, or String, ì and two men are employed repairing in the 15 Fm. level and other ì places. Besides, we are obliged when any of the machinery ì breaks, which often happens, to employ others of the workmen to ì assist to repair it. If it hadnot been for the constant breakage ì of the wheels, spears etc., the mine might have been cleared of ì water by this time, as the water power is sufficient for the ì purpose, except in a drought. As it is, the water has, during ì the stoppage of the broken wheels, gained upon us, though the ì steam engine was employed during the past month for a few days, ì till the pendulum belonging to the spears in Providence Shaft ì broke, upon which we were obliged to stop it also for repair. At ì present the water is lowering. We have put ladders in Sir Thomas Shaft so that one of the men is ì not obliged to be constantly standing at the top, as before, to ì let the others down and draw them up. Merryfield Wheel is very bad. It is almost constantly requiring ì repair and cannot be expected to hang together long. Mr. Eddy, ì of Grassington, examined it on the 16th December on the part of ì Mr. Yorke. June 21st. 1844. There is a great deal of whole ground in the east of Sun Side ì Pasture, about the Sir Thomas Shaft, and there is reason to ì believe, from the appearance of the vein in the low levels, that ì profitable workings will be opened there whenever the shaft shall ì be sunk through to those levels. The borehole, mentioned in the ì last report, as being begun in Sir Thomas Shaft, was communicated ì on the 4th April with the crosscut south from the 16 Fm. level. ì The boring has been tedious in consequence of the falling in of ì the sides of the hole in some parts. After the holing, the sinking was about to be resumed, and the ì new Gin for drawing the work was nearly completed, when it was ì unexpectedly thought advisable not to sink the shaft for the ì present. The men have, for a part of the time since, been ì employed driving the South & North Crosscuts. The South Crosscut ì has not cut a vein and has been left off. The North Crosscut has ì cut a vein, which contains samples of ore, but it is considered ì too near the surface for the bearing part of the vein at that end ì of the ground. The produce of the mine since the end of last half year up to the ì present time has been:- 700 pieces, 1673 lbs. over Whilst most of Greenhow Hill had come under the enclosure acts in ì 1814, Bewerley Moor was not dealt with until 1858:- EXTRACT FROM THE AWARD OF THE VALUER OF THE INCLOSURE OF BEWERLEY ì MOOR AND HARDCASTLE MOOR SITUATE IN THE TOWNSHIP OF BEWERLEY, IN ì THE COUNTY OF YORK. James Powell of Harrogate, Land Surveyor, was duly appointed the ì valuer in the matter of the said Inclosure and made his award in ì writing bearing date the thirty first day of March 1858 and which ì Award was confirmed under the Hands and Official Seal of the ì Inclosure Commissioners for England and Wales on 15th day of ì April 1858. The Inclosure of the above Moor was duly authorised under the ì provision of ""The Acts for the Inclosure Exchange and Improvement ì of Land"". INTER ALIA. And I declare that the claim of Sir Thomas Woollaston White, ì Baronet, The Reverend Taylor White, Thomas Fowke, Andrew Burnaby, ì John Manwaring and Elizabeth his wife, and Anna Kirke - the ì Mines of Coal, and lead-Smelting House and Mills and to all other ì Mines and Mineral - except Stone - and to all Springs of water ì lying and being in upon and under all the messuages, lands, ì commons, waste grounds and hereditaments situate and being in ì Bewerley Moor and Hardcastle Moor - with the exclusive right of ì sinking shafts & other works for searching for, working, and ì obtaining the said Mines and Minerals and carrying away the same ì without making any compensation for the same of or for any damage ì or injury done to the surface and in the exercise of such rights, ì WAS DULY ALLOWED AND THAT SUCH RIGHT IS NOT AFFECTED BY THIS ì INCLOSURE. The Prosperous & Providence Mining Company was working the mine ì i"|"Prosperous & Providence Mine" "SE"|1070.00|7250.00|"Stonebeck Down"|"250 metres north of Low West House Farm"||||||"Lead"|"See also Lolly Scar High and Low Levels."|"SE17SW"|||||2012.00|"LOLLY SCAR VEIN SE17. 107725 SILVER HILL VEIN SE17. 103727 Lolly Scar Mine is situated on the SW bank of the River Nidd, 3/4 ì mile SE of Lofthouse, at an elevation of 550 ft. A.O.D. The mine ì was first worked from a level driven onto the outcrop of the vein ì from the river bank, about 100 yards downstream from the later ì level. Wooden rails were used in this old level. They were of ì redwood, 3"" wide by 2"" thick. The Ramsgill Mining Company is ì reputed to have worked the mine between the years 1874-77. Of ì its forerunners, nothing is known. Lolly Level was commenced as a south crosscut, to Lolly Vein, in ì 1866, but stopped soon afterwards. Little more appears to have ì been done at the mine until 1889, when Joseph Cradock, of ì Stockton on Tees, took up the lease. Edward Cherry, of ì Fremington, was employed as Agent, and William Peacock was ì Manager, until his death in May 1901. The portal of Lolly Level ì bears the date July 1895, but development was commenced in 1889 ì and the first recorded output was in 1894. Lolly Vein runs E - W and has been worked over a distance of ì 4,400 feet. It has an average width of 3-4 feet, is vertical in ì the thick bedded grits, and nips down to a joint, with little ì trace of mineral, in the overlaying thin grits and plate. Vein ì minerals present are amber fluorspar, barytes, calcite, ì witherite, blende and galena. In 1904, development of a parallel south vein was re-commenced, ì via John Peacock's and James Walker's crosscuts, the vein having ì been found in 1901. A number of rises and sumps were put in and ì it is probable that a substantial part of the mine's later ì production came from this south vein. Two crosscuts were ì unsuccessfully driven further south from it in 1905. The Lolly Vein has only been followed into the limestone at one ì point; this is at the forehead of the horse level, where the ì limestone is 21 feet below the level sole. This trial was made ì in 1904 and, as no further work was done, it is assumed that the ì vein was barren of lead and not promising. Also in 1904, Cradock ì wrote that the vein was being worked in the shale and was quite ì good. This would be in the area of the connection with Bents New ì Level, driven from Blayshaw Gill, at 775 ft. A.O.D., in 1901. ì This crosscut was driven SE in thin grits and plate for 950 feet ì where the Lolly Vein was cut. A drift was driven 300 feet to the ì east and a sump connected with the Top Durk Drift of Lolly Scar ì Mine on June 4th, 1903. The level appears to have ceased ì development and was abandoned in 1910. A seven inch thick coal seam, with an associated fireclay and ì ironstone band, is found in the crosscut, and a 1.5 inch thick ì coal seam also occurs 24 feet lower. None of these have been ì worked from the level but a heap of slags can be seen further up ì the gill. Cradock tried a number of parallel strings near the Lolly Vein, ì the most well developed of these being Silver Hill Vein. In ì 1905, a crosscut was driven due south in grit, at 590 ft. A.O.D., ì for a distance of 165 feet where a drift was driven for 240 feet ì to the west. The vein is vertical and consists of 3 - 4 inches ì of barytes, with some calcite. Some limited stoping was done and ì a six feet deep sump put down. The mine proved to be poor and ì was closed in 1908. Joseph Caygill's Hand Level was started on the 7th July 1906, to ì work an E - W string, but was closed in November. LOLLY SCAR STONEBECK DOWN SE107725 Production: Lead Ore(tons) Metal(tons) Value(#) 1889-1893 No detailed return 1894 557.50 371.00 3066.00 1895 244.00 162.00 1342.00 1896 85.25 56.00 464.00 1897 250.00 166.00 1361.00 1898 764.00 508.00 4159.00 1899 728.00 512.00 5351.00 1900 649.00 456.00 6165.00 1901 540.00 359.00 4536.00 1902 569.00 378.00 3556.00 1903 720.00 479.00 4500.00 1904 216.00 140.00 1510.00 1905 83.00 55.00 600.00 1906 70.00 44.00 560.00 1907 103.00 70.00 930.00 1908 85.00 65.00 601.00 1909 78.00 59.00 527.00 1910 5.00 4.00 50.00 1908 10.00 0.00 44.00 Comment: 1910-1911 ABANDONED Mining Company: 1889-1911 JOSEPH CRADOCK Employment: Year Underground Surface Total 1898 19 7 26 1899 18 8 26 1900 20 9 29 1901 35 7 42 1902 36 8 44 1903 34 6 40 1904 36 3 39 1905 27 4 31 1906 24 3 27 1907 19 4 23 1908 14 3 17 1909 10 3 13 1910-1911 4 6 10 "|"Lolly Scar Mine" "SE"|980.00|7280.00|"Stonebeck Down"|"150 metres west of Low Blayshaw Farm"||||||"Lead"|"See Memo field."|"SE07SE"|||||2013.00|"BLAYSHAW GILL VEINS SE07. 091728 In 1876, the Blayshaw Gill Lead Mining Company commenced driving ì the Blayshaw Level, at 650 ft. A.O.D., from a point on the north ì bank of Blayshaw Gill, 300 feet upstream from the bridge. The ì level was driven on a vein in grit, which had been side stepped ì four times by faulting, and had a hade of 5-10 degrees south. ì Stoping had been done above the level on these veins, known as ì Sun, Middle and North. Most of the company's work was centred ì upon the area between West and Speakwath Shafts. Cradock took over the mine in 1894 but appears to have done ì little work until 1901, when West Shaft was reopened and an old ì man's drift was entered at 76 feet from the surface. This was ì continued to the west, for 400 feet, in thin grits. The main ì level was utilised and an amount of crosscutting was done between ì 1901 and 1909. In the 15 years that Cradock worked the mine, ì only 62 tons of ore were produced and, from a field examination, ì this was a poor mine, no doubt sustained by its richer neighbour, ì Lolly Scar Mine. BLAYSHAW GILL STONEBECK DOWN SE098728 Production: Lead Ore(tons) Metal(tons) Silver(Ozs) Value(#) 1876 12.10 9.00 138.20 1883 9.30 7.40 70.00 1884 No detailed return 1885 2.00 1.40 12.00 1887 0.50 1888 No detailed return 1901 10.00 7.00 85.00 1905 5.00 3.00 42.00 1906 24.00 15.00 120.00 1907 14.00 10.00 120.00 1908 9.00 7.00 61.00 Comment: 1910-1911 ABANDONED Mining Company: 1876-1887 BLAYSHAW GILL LEAD MINING CO. 1888-1893 BLAYSHAW GILL MINING CO. 1894-1907 JOSEPH CRADOCK, JOHN APPLEBY & CO. 1908-1911 JOSEPH CRADOCK & CO. Manager: 1875-1881 JOHN APPLEBY 1879-1881 JAMES R. PEACOCK 1881 ROBT. LOBLEY 1894-1902 JOHN APPLEBY Secretary: 1876-1877 ROBT. LOTTY (S) 1878-1881 JOHN APPLEBY (S) 1903-1907 JOSEPH CRADOCK (S) Employment: Underground Surface Total 1877 4 2 6 1878 7 0 7 1879-1880 6 0 6 1881 4 0 4 1882 5 1 6 1898-1899 4 0 4 1900 6 0 6 1901 12 2 14 1902 2 2 4 1904 2 2 4 1905 5 2 7 1906 8 0 8 1907 6 0 6 1908 5 1 6 1909-1911 3 1 4 "|"Blayshaw Gill Mine" "SE"|1140.00|6330.00|"Bewerley"|"900 metres south of the Miners Arms"|1350.00|||||"Lead"|"See Memo field."|"SE16SW"||"Black Rigg Vein"|||2033.00|"BLACK RIGG BEWERLEY SE114633 Production: Lead Ore(tons) Metal(tons) 1781-1814 No detailed return Mineral Owner: 1781-1814 SEE BEWERLEY LIBERTY Mining Company: 1781 JOHN MAXFIELD & CO. 1793-1814 GEORGE BRADLEY & CO. "|"Black Rigg Mine" "SE"|1080.00|6320.00|"Thornthwaite with Padside"|"1.1 Km south-south-west of the Miners Arms"|1375.00|||||"Lead"|"See Memo field."|"SE16SW"||"Black Rigg Vein"|||2034.00|"BLACK RIGG FOREST MOOR SE108632 Production: Lead Ore(tons) Metal(tons) 1764 86.00 1765 63.95 1766 34.90 1773 55.00 1774 15.00 1775 16.10 1776 5.90 1777 0.60 1778 20.90 1779 7.55 1780 10.15 1781 10.40 1782 7.85 1784 5.36 1782 3.15 1786 0.45 1787 5.40 1788 20.10 1789 128.20 1790 1.64 1791 147.00 1792 135.70 1793 6.70 1794 53.48 1795 33.60 1796 23.50 1797 0.60 1798 12.60 1799 6.85 1800 5.35 1801 0.30 Comment: 1773-1789 SMELTED AT THE FOREST MILL ì (HOODSTORTH) 1790-1801 SMELTED AT GRASSINGTON Mineral Lord: 1764-1801 DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE Mining Company: 1773-1801 BARKER & CO. Manager: 1792-1801 WM. MARSHALL 1792 JACOB BAILEY "|"Black Rigg Mine" "SE"|1120.00|6430.00|"Bewerley"|"250 metres north-west of the Miners Arms"|1250.00|||||"Fluorspar"|"See Memo field."|"SE16SW"|||||2036.00|"BEWERLEY NO.1 BEWERLEY SE112643 Production: Fluorspar Ore(tons) Value(#) 1922-1928 No detailed return 1922-1928 SEE ALSO COCKHILL 1928 STANDING Mineral Lord: 1922-1928 SEE BEWERLEY Mining Company: 1922-1925 BEWERLEY MINING CO. 1926-1928 BEWERLEY MINES LTD Manager: 1922-1928 A. KINGHAM Employment: Underground Surface Total 1883 157 1908 16 2 18 1923 4 3 7 1924 4 2 6 1926 5 4 9 1927 6 14 20 "|"Bewerley No.1" "SE"|1220.00|6630.00|"Bewerley"|"2.1 Km west of Heathfield Smelt Mill"||||||"Lead"|"See Memo field. At Perseverance Level."|"SE16NW"|||||2037.00|"BEWERLEY NO.2 BEWERLEY SE122663 Production: Lead Ore(tons) Metal(tons) 1970-1975 No detailed return Comment: 1970 PROSPECTING 1971-1975 STANDING 1970-1975 SEE BEWERLEY Mining Company: 1970 BEWERLEY MINES LTD 1971 STIBBARD, GIBSON & CO. 1972-1975 BEWERLEY MINES LTD "|"Bewerley No.2" "SE"|1220.00|6560.00|"Bewerley"|||||||"Lead"|"See Memo field."|"SE16"|||||2216.00|"HARDCASTLE BEWERLEY SE122656 Production: Lead Ore(tons) Metal(tons) 1867-1892 No detailed return Comment: 1867 SEE HOLEBOTTOM Mining Company: 1876 SUNSIDE MINING CO. 1877 SUNSIDE & MERRYFIELD LEAD MINING CO. 1878-1892 SUNSIDE LEAD MINING CO. "|"Hardcastle" "SE"|1120.00|6390.00|"Bewerley"|||||||"Fluorspar"|"See Memo field."|"SE16"|||||2226.00|"HILL TOP BEWERLEY SE112639 Production: Fluorspar Ore(tons) Metal(tons) 1938-1950 No detailed return Mineral Lord: 1938-1950 SEE BEWERLEY Mining Company: 1938-1945 J. BUSFIELD 1948-1950 GEORGE MACKWELL Employment: Year Underground Surface Total 1938 3 1 4 1940 5 5 1941 1 1 1942 2 2 1943 2 2 1944 2 2 1945 2 2 1948 2 2 1950 3 3 6 "|"Hill Top" "SE"|1320.00|6520.00|"Bewerley"|||||||"Lead"|"See Memo field."|"SE16"|||||2229.00|"HUTCHINSON'S & BURNABY'S NIDDERDALE SE132652 Production: Lead Ore(tons) Metal(tons) 1861 53.90 35.00 1863 51.00 23.00 1864 50.00 35.00 1865 No detailed return Comment: 1863 INC.MR YORKE'S ROYALTY 1863-1865 SILVER PRODUCER Mineral Lord: 1861 HUTCHINSON'S & BURNABY'S ROYALTY "|"Hutchinson's and Burnaby's" "SE"|1360.00|6480.00|"Bewerley"|||||||"Lead"|"See Memo field"|"SE16"|||||2319.00|"TOFT RIGG ALLOTMENT BEWERLEY SE136648 Production: Lead Ore(tons) Metal(tons) 1792-1824 No detailed return Comment: 1792-1824 SEE BALE BANK Mineral Lord: 1792-1824 SEE UNDER BEWERLEY Mining Company: 1800 SIR JOHN INGILBY & CO. "|"Toft Rigg Allotment" "SE"|1090.00|6340.00|"Bewerley"|||||||"Lead"|"See Memo field."|"SE16"|||||2325.00|"WEST GALLOWAY BEWERLEY SE109634 Production: Lead Ore(tons) Metal(tons) 1814 No detailed return Mineral Lord: 1814 SEE UNDER BEWERLEY Mining Company: 1814 ANTHONY HOPPER-BROWN, LEASE EXPIRED 1814 "|"West Galloway" "SE"|1180.00|6440.00|"Bewerley"|||||||"Lead"|"See Memo field."|"SE16"|||||2267.00|"NORTH COLDSTONES BEWERLEY SE118644 Production: Lead Ore(tons) Metal(tons) 1782-1855 No detailed return Comment: 1783 DRIVING GILLFIELD LEVEL 1824 UNITED WITH SUNSIDE-COCKHILL Mineral Lord: 1782-1824 THE WHITE FAMILY Mining Company: 1760-1782 MR. THORNHILL & CO. 1782-1790 PETER WILSON OVEREND 1802 H.HARDCASTLE & CO. LEASE EXPIRED 1823 1824-1855 THOMAS HOPPER & CO = SUNSIDE MINING CO. Manager: 1776 WILLIAM BELL 1776 RALPH ROBINSON 1784-1789 ALEXANDER WEARING 1792 MR HARKER "|"North Coldstones" "SE"|1150.00|6480.00|"Bewerley"|||||||"Lead"|"See Memo field. See also Cockhill Mine."|"SE16SW"||"Cockhill Vein"|"Greenhow Rake"|"Fielding Vein"|2270.00|"PATELEY BRIDGE BEWERLEY SE115648 Production: Lead Ore(tons) Metal(tons) Silver(Ozs) Value(#) 1875 78.10 51.00 1071.10 1876 77.20 56.90 1173.60 1877 157.00 111.00 222.00 2078.90 1878 324.00 220.70 442.00 3413.70 1879 371.00 227.00 454.00 3004.00 1880 238.00 178.70 2285.00 1881 100.00 72.00 860.00 1882 50.00 37.50 425.00 1883 50.00 37.50 387.00 Comment: 1875-1876 SILVER PRODUCER 1875-1883 SEE SUNSIDE-COCKHILL Mineral Lord: 1875-1889 SEE BEWERLEY LIBERTY Mining Company: 1875-1879 PATELEY BRIDGE LEAD MINING & SMELTING ì CO 1879-1889 PATELEY BRIDGE COMPANY LTD Manager: 1875-1880 CHARLES WILLIAMS 1877-1878 JAMES BLENKIRON 1879-1881 T.H. HUTCHINSON 1881 DAVID WILLIAMS Secretary: 1877-1881 WALTER J. LAVINGTON (S) Employment: Year Underground Surface Total 1877 44 14 58 1878 40 14 54 1879 55 9 64 1880 37 37 1881 7 2 9 1882 8 8 "|"Pateley Bridge" "SE"|1100.00|6630.00|"Stonebeck Down"|||||||"Lead"|"See Memo field"|"SE16"|||||2280.00|"RAMSGILL STONEBECK DOWN SE110663 Production: Lead Ore(tons) Metal(tons) 1875 25.00 19.50 1876 150.00 112.50 Comment: 1875-1876 RANSGILL SILVER PRODUCER 1875-1876 KNOWN AS OLD MERRYFIELD & STONEY GROVES Mineral Lord: 1537-1538 BYLAND ABBEY 1554 JOHN YORKE Mining Company: 1537 JOHN UVEDALE 1554 AVERYE UVEDALE 1875-1881 RAMSGILL MINING CO. 1882-1891 BURNABY & HUTCHINSON Manager: 1875-1881 DAVID WILLIAMS 1882-1891 CHARLES WILLIAMS Secretary: 1877-1879 E.J. ARMSTRONG 1880-1881 BURNABY & HUTCHINSON "|"Ramsgill" "SE"|1050.00|6450.00|"Bewerley"|||||||"Lead"|"See Memo field"|"SE16"|||||2282.00|"RAVENSTONES ALLOTMENT BEWERLEY SE105645 Production: Lead Ore(tons) Metal(tons) 1786-1800 No detailed return Mineral Lord: 1786-1800 SEE BEWERLEY LIBERTY Mining Company: 1786 BUSFIELD & CO. 1800 P.W. OVEREND & WILLIAM MOORHOUSE "|"Ravenstones Allotment"