Hi Peter, and all
Many thanks for passing the Clintsfield info on.  By the way its LUNESDALE. in the old 'Hundred of Lonsdale'.

I can add to your note on the Claughton Brickworks.   I have just written two chapters, coalmining and quarrying,  for a forthcoming book to be published by Lancaster Univ North West Regionl Studies Dept, edited by Mike Winstanley   - provisional title is 'Lost Industries of Lunesdale' in which I include some info on the Claughton Works. (there are several other chapters by various authors eg basket making, hatting, textile working and mills etc). The first ropeway acoss the main road appear to have been installed by 1900.  

 I have also completed an article to go to ARCHIVE, in Lidney, Glos, (the photos one), and possibly the AIA journal if they accept it (the more in depth one), on the very site-subject, when these will be in print is not known as yet, (Im still waiting for the AIA to review my coal mining book) but I have included the original works and plans for the ropeway-over-road bridges, odd photos etc.  

This work is ongoing as part of my remit as research fellow at Univ Col. St Martins Lancaster, and hopefully for the millennium year my two new books will appear viz: 'Water Powered Sites in Lunesdale' AND 'Industrial Archaeology in  Upper Ribblesdale' will be published  - and possibly a new version  of the now out of date 'Industrial Archaeology of the Lune Valley'!!!

By the way I did publish a short paper in the Ingleton 'Granite' quarry at Ingleton. Its in Yorkshire History Quarterly Vol 5 No1 pp 40-44. Contains a lot of new info and several unpublished old photos of the ropeway.

Another recent item  'Notes on Brick Making in Accrington', in Lancashire History Quarterly Vol 3 No.2, pp80-84. 
Other recent industrial items are bits on Hatting, Coal Mining (apart from my recent book on the subject) the odd water mill etc. 
 
Im busting my gut up here trying to publish Ind Arch material, only problem is nobody seems to want to read it!!!, Well not if it involves paying out any cash for the journals or my books.  Asking around for support grants or cash donations etc to publish my work is just a waste of my valuable time.  I already have enough new material to write another edition of the Coal Mining in Lunesdale, but I still have quite a stock of the current edition to sell of and cannot afford another print run until I cash in a few more.   

Best wishes  Phil Hudson, Settle. N.Yorks.  see more info at my web site:

http://www.users.daelnet.co.uk/hudson-history/index.html  


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