If you've seen the ebay sale page, you can email the seller and ask for
the address of the buyer, or ask him to forward a message to the buyer,
if he's reluctant to divulge this information.
Rod Goslin
David Williams wrote:
> Can anyone help?
>
> We have recently become aware through the good offices of Martin
> Critchley and Richard Shaw that four glass slides were sold on E-Bay.
>
> These slides were described as being "Out Rake Mine". Two of them showed
> an Engine House. One of the shots showed two engine houses and two
> chimneys whilst the other showed just one engine house. The other two
> slides showed two miners. In one of these slides the larger, stout miner
> appeared to be about to lower another smaller miner down a shaft using a
> stows. On the other slide the same two gentlemen were shown operating a
> hand powered crusher.
>
> Having seen the E-Bay page of these slides, it has become apparent that
> the engine houses shown are those at High Rake, whilst the two miners
> are recognised as Derbyshire men by Jim Rieuwerts.
>
> We have been working at High Rake excavating and preserving the site for
> the last eight years, and in fact, we finished the project today.
>
> Unfortunately, details of the sale reached us too late to enable us to
> do anything about the sale.
>
> This is a desperate plea - Has anyone on the List purchased these
> slides? Or do you know anyone who has? If so, please get in touch with
> us, we would love to get at least a good copy of these pictures.
>
> Having finished at High Rake Mine, we will be turning our attention to
> Silence Mine at Grindlow, where there is a Community Project to
> transform a derelict piece of ground into a nature reserve and a
> community asset. Part of the site contains the demolished remains of an
> engine and boiler house dating from the 1860's. Our part of the project
> is to excavate and conserve the mine site.
>
> Cheers, Dave Williams
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