Thanks Nick
She need them by end of next week, however if she knows the names of people supplying a letter, she can list them and send them later.
Regards
Ian
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From: Nick Nelson <[log in to unmask]>
To: mining-history <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 6:30
Subject: Re: The Yorkshire Dales Mining Museum and the Dales Countryside Museum, transfer of artefacts
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
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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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