Dear Daniel,
Re your enquiry about Cononley Lead Mine
As others have already suggested, you need British Mining No.33.
This is out of print, but Leeds City Library should have a copy:-
Gill, M.C. Yorkshire and Lancashire Lead Mines: A Study of
Lead Mining in the South Craven and Rossendale Districts
(Sheffield: Northern Mine Research Society, British Mining No.33,
1987).
This has plans and sections of the workings, production tables and a
gives a fair idea of the mine's history.
Related papers are:-
Roe, M. "Upper Adit - Cononley Lead Mine, North Yorkshire"
Keighley: Northern Mine Research Society, British Mining No.63,
1999, pp.28-33.
and
Gill, M.C. "Cononley - The Anatomy of a Mining Village" Keighley:
Northern Mine Research Society, British Mining No.63, 1999, pp.34-
47.
Most of the mine is on private land, with a number of owners. Whilst
casual visitors to the area around the Engine Shaft are welcome
(encouraged), if you are planning to do any fieldwork there, you
should get permission from the Friends of Cononley Mine. As I am
secretary for that group, please contact me off list.
Mike Gill
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Mike Gill
President and Recorder of the NORTHERN MINE RESEARCH SOCIETY
Britain's foremost mining history society at:-
http://www.exeter.ac.uk/~RBurt/MinHistNet/NMRS.html
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