old lead mines at blackcraig scotland
The Etchings of John Clerk of Eldin by Geoffrey Bertram ...
the etchings of. john clerk of eldin geoffrey bertram ... scientific coalmaster then in Scotland'. 7 Practical, scientific mining led to an intellectual scientific interest in geology on the ......
There's gold in them there Leadhills The Scotsman
Weighing grammes, the nugget is the largest to be found in the district for almost 60 years, according to Gerard Godfrey, manager of the Museum of Lead Mining in Wanlockhead....
Caves and Mines In Dumfries and Galloway Near Me | Day Out ...
We've rounded up the best caves and mines in Dumfries and Galloway in our quest to discover brilliant family attractions and places to visit near you. There are 1 Dumfries and Galloway caves and mines to pick from. Alternatively, why not explore some other sightseeing days out nearby, including museums and art galleries, castles and palaces or stately homes and gardens....
Virtual Tour of Maine's Mines and Quarries
Lubec Lead Mine The old workings of the Lubec Lead Mine are still visible today and may be visited as a mineral collecting locality. Extreme caution is required to avoid being caught by rising tides in this area. Maine Geological Survey ... Virtual Tour of Maine's Mines and Quarries...
Lake District Steetley Minerals
Hartsop Hall Mine. Another old lead mine, its mineralogical interest being the occurrence of small yellow fluorite crystals, one of the few locations that fluorite is found in the Borrowdale volcanics. Low Hartsop (or Myers Head) Mine. Micromount supergene minerals have been found here, including small orange wulfenite crystals on cerussite...
BOEC Original Series Volume XXXVI – Old Edinburgh Club
The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club Volumes 2235. This document is a cumulative index of the second part of the Original Series of the Book of the Old Edinburgh Club published between 1938 and 1985. Unlike the index for volumes 1 to 20 (in volume 21) this has not been prepared by rereading all the relevant volumes....
Blog | NEW CUMNOCK HERITAGE | GATEWAY TO AYRSHIRE
Mar 19, 2017· I wish to offer my sincere thanks to Marion Gilliland for getting in touch through the New Cumnock Heritage Facebook to consider if I would be interested in a looking at collection of photos, documents etc. from New Cumnock's past that she had inherited from her close and late friend Margaret Kirkland, Polmarlach, New Cumnock....
Child labour in the mines
Child labour in the mines. Taken from The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844: Friedrich Engels (1845).. Engels wrote his book after the passing of the 1842 Mines Act which prohibited the employment underground of all s and of males under 10 years....
Blackcraig West Lead Mine information and photos
Information, photographs and plans for Blackcraig West Lead Mine on the mine exploration web site ...
Scotland, Creetown History of Creetown Dalbeattie
The Lead and Copper Mines : the discovery of lead ore in 1763 marked the start of intense industrial activity; the mines of Blackcraig, Machermore, Pibble and Cairnsmore, were second only to those at Wanlockhead and Leadhills, within Scotland. The mines were shut by 1890, with a brief resurgence in, as lead and copper were needed as ......
The TinklerGypsies of Galloway
DUKE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2018 with funding from Duke University Libraries https:///details/tinklergypsiesof01mcco ......
Perthshire Diary November 8th 1862
He succeeded to the Earldom in 1834. Four years later he reopened the lead mines at Clifton and continued operating them at a loss for many years. But his main operation, one might almost say the centre of his obsession, was the mine at Tomnadashan on the south side of Loch Tay. Tomnadashan was then a small community a little west of Ardtalnaig....
National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives ...
Two forms of identification (photographic and address) needed for access Paper and digital copying available depending on terms of deposit National Records of Scotland also operates the ScotlandsPeople family history centre, providing access to digital images and indexes of Scottish census returns and birth, marriage and death records....
Home UK Mining Remains
uk mining remains This site is intended as a journey around the mining sites of Great Britain where any form of significant remains / major industrial archaeology can be seen. The site is intended to act as a photographic record showing mainly the surface mining remains such as engine houses, structures and buildings etc from the coal, metal ......
Underground Tours Mine Tours in England | VisitEngland
Take a sewer tour – yes, really – to gawp at the subterranean architecture and marvel at Victorian ingenuity. For a less aromatic experience, disused coal mines now offer the chance to descend 140m underground on a mine tour to confront the vivid realities faced by the men, women and children who have toiled in them through the ages....
History of the Hope Family Hopetoun
Sir Thomas' fourth son, Sir James Hope () was the first to style himself 'of Hopetoun' using the old name for Leadhills in Lanarkshire where, through his marriage with the heiress Anne Foulis, he came into possession of valuable lead mines....
Wanlockhead Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland
The railway closed in 1938 following the closure of most of the area's lead mines. The Leadhills Wanlockhead Railway is a 2ft narrow gauge railway built along part of the old trackbed which currently terminates half a mile from Wanlockhead. Today's Wanlockhead depends primarily on tourism....
Metalliferous mineralization, Southwest Scotland Earthwise
Of this production, more than half the lead, almost all of the zinc and a proportion of the copper were recovered from the Blackcraig mines (14), some 5 km from the SW margin of the Cairnsmore of Fleet granodiorite pluton. Little can now be seen of this deposit, the most important in southwest Scotland, and the extensive dumps are mainly ......
Lead Plumbing Pipes: how to identify lead water supply ...
Lead pipes in buildings: This article discusses identification of lead drain or water supply piping, durability, leaks, health questions. We give a brief history of the use of lead supply drain pipes, we illustrate where you will find and how to recognize lead pipes, and we discuss the question of which lead pipes need replacement and what the health and leak issues really are with lead ......
Person Page Gordons from Galloway, Scotland ...
Grace was enumerated as the head of the on the 1871 Scotland Census residing at Mines Village in Blackcraig, Minnigaff Parish, Kirkcudbrightshire. Also residing in the same were John Smith (Parkhill) and Peter Smith Grace's occupation was listed as Out Door Worker, while her sons were shown as Scholars. Census1881UK: 3 April ......
BMDs for LAMONT, Blackcraig, Minnigaff (Kirkcudbrightshire ...
Mar 24, 2012· You may be interested in this old McGUFFOG memorial, also listed for Minnigaff. Note the McGuffie spelling variation. [Pathhead mines refer to Blackcraig industrial villiage]. Erected by John McGUFFOG at Pathhead Mines. Here is interred the body of Janet WYLIE his spouse who died July 19 1783 aged 50 years...
Leadhills Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland
Leadhills is not an imaginative name for a village located high in the Lowther Hills and founded on lead mining, but it is an apt one. Scotland's second highest village (after nearby Wanlockhead) lies at a height of 395m or 1,295ft and is reached from the east via the B7040 from Elvanfoot or ....
Kirroughtree House | Wiki | Everipedia
The estate . During the heritorship of the Herons, the estate included Creebridge House and the Newton Stewart Golf Course to the west, and extended beyond Palnure .To the east, where the Forestry Commission 's Kirroughtree Visitor Centre now stands, it included the lead mines of Blackcraig, which contributed to the estate's prosperity after their chance discovery during the construction of a ......
East Blackcraig Mine | Canmore
This was excellent for business, as good communications gave it an advantage over other Scottish lead mines located in more remote areas, such as Corrantee and Tyndrum. By 1780, 44 men worked at Blackcraig mines; this included 25 miners and 7 men who smelted the ore to remove impurities from the lead. Business was going well....