Hi y'all

I've been lurking for a while and then took the plunge the other day and actually registered.
I've a years old geology degree which is used only for hobby useages (isn't that the best way?). Mostly forgotten now, but it keeps coming back to me.
I live in one of those lucky/unlucky places where i live near a semi abandoned ( keeps getting worked for a short time and then left again) limestone quarry. Lucky because the workings go back some 300 years and surround the village in various states. Unlucky because it is pretty barren, just different grades of magnesian limestone which is visually quite striking, but has no crystalline veins or pockets to keep the interest going. Not even any fossils (strictly not true as i did find one very faint coralline fossil a few years ago, but thats all i have found).

Anyway, thanks for the addition and i'll be posting a few pictures and asking for some advice in the other parts of the forum

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How be on then?

Fire's over there..........Scrotum will be along with the decanter presently.........Pull up a chair and read away!

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Hello
I am researching my family history and have a family story to clear up. My grandad was called William Bentley and is listed as a Blacksmith on most sites, however I know he worked in quarries somewhere in Shap.
The story goes that in the early 1920's a mining business relocated to Earl Sterndale in Derbyshire and several mining families relocated with it.
My mum was his youngest daughter and the only one born in Earl Sterndale, her siblings, Violet, William, Sybil,Doris, Frances and Alfred were all born in Cumberland. They lived in Newbiggin. I am hoping that someone somewhere will know the name of the company that relocated so I can continue my research - I would love to know more - anyone?

Thanks - Mandy

Earl Sterndale's on the edge of the Peak District orefield and by the 1920s, most mining going on in that corner was for calcite and fairly small-scale. However, there are a lot of quarries in the area (Dowlow, Hindlow, etc.), most of which in the 1920s were owned by the Buxton Lime Firms congolmerate which was later bought out by ICI. I know BLF had some interests in North Wales and other areas but I'm not sure if there was anything in Westmorland.

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