Dear Ian,
I am sure that the Yorkshire Archaeological Society (of which I am a member, in the Industrial History Section) will wish to support the submission. Do you know if there is a deadline for letters of support?
Nick
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From: mining-history <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Ian Spensley <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 09 November 2015 16:58
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Subject: The Yorkshire Dales Mining Museum and the Dales Countryside Museum, transfer of artefacts
Dear All
A request for help.
The Yorkshire Dales Mining Museum is in the process oftransferring all artifacts to the Dales Countryside Museum (DCM) at Hawes inWensleydale. All the portable items, horse wagon, air blowing machine, durk wagonsetc have already been transferred. The water wheel and rolls crushers, we hopewill be moved during the last half of this month by McEwans of Keighley.
DCM are putting together an application to the HeritageLottery Fund for money to extend the display area and to re-site the waterwheel etc.
Some of you will know better than me how this collectionfits into the national 19th Century metal mining scene.
I hope that some of you may be able to write letters insupport of this grant application.
If you are willing to help, please send letters to, FionaRosher, Station Yard, Hawes, North Yorkshire, DL8 3NT. [log in to unmask]
Below is my letter which may help explain.
Thank you very much in advance.
Ian Spensley
To whom it may concern,
I write in support of Dales CountrysideMuseums application to the Heritage Lottery Fund. I am a member of the EarbyMine Research Group and a trustee of the Yorkshire Dales Mining Museum atEarby. I am also a local historian with particular knowledge of the miningindustries of dales.
The collection has been assembledby members of the Earby Mine Research Group from at least 1945 and alsocontains the collections of the Northern Mine Research Group and the YorkshireUnderground Research Team. It is the most complete collection of its type inthe UK. The group is still active, and continues to do important preservationwork and interpretation of the dales mining heritage (lead, zinc, copper, barytes,flourspar, coal, chert and slate).
Moving the collection fromEarby to Hawes will not only put it in the centre of the area from which it wasgathered, but also makes the collection available to a much wider audience. Hawesis now an easier centre for our members to reach to help with the continuedinterpretation of the artefacts and pass on our knowledge to others, whethervolunteers or visitors.
The collection represents theeveryday tools and possessions of the dales miners, adding a very human face tothe remains still to be seen within the dales landscape.
Displaying this collection alongsideDCM’s already impressive displays of agricultural and supporting trades, willcomplete the picture of the dales economy and the everyday lives of pastgenerations. The collection is not only important to the present day populationof the dales, but also to the descendants of those who emigrated in thenineteenth century to the colonies, in the main Wisconsin, USA.
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