Do any of you kind helpful peeps happen to know of a good plan / survey of Ball Eye? thanks.
Owd Git.

I've got one, will try and scan it this weekend and get it up loaded. If you don't see it, give me a PM.

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Thanks very much, there's a pint in for you at matlock Bath if you're passing ( princess vic')

The definitive report on Ball Eye was in PDMHS Bulletin, Vol 4 number 4. (1970 ?) With Survey.

Uploaded, under Ball Eye mine.

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I have now put the PDMHS Bulletin article on Ball Eye Mine onto the Ball Eye page. I am preparing another tranche of scans (this time from early Bulletins) to put up to the PDMHS website.

Incidently, we are hoping to publish Roger Flindall's magnum opus on the mines of Matlock Bath, probably in 2014.

I have now put the PDMHS Bulletin article on Ball Eye Mine onto the Ball Eye page. I am preparing another tranche of scans (this time from early Bulletins) to put up to the PDMHS website.

I've noticed everything prior to 10:4 has disappeared from the back issues section of the website - do you want to upset Niki or shall I?

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I have now put the PDMHS Bulletin article on Ball Eye Mine onto the Ball Eye page. I am preparing another tranche of scans (this time from early Bulletins) to put up to the PDMHS website.

Incidently, we are hoping to publish Roger Flindall's magnum opus on the mines of Matlock Bath, probably in 2014.

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Hi AR (and others),

You will find that Niki is rearranging the back copy index. She is gradually moving then so that they appear as clickable links in the main index.

See

http://www.pdmhs.com/BulletinIndexVolume8.asp 

Cheers

Further question;is Fountrabby level negotiable?
Or have I got to go and see. :thumbup:
Ta.

Fountrabbey's not do-able these days - there was a dam put in the bottom end some years back, plus you'd get to the bottom end of the sough through the bit that's behind the locked door. The top end is still theoretically accessible through a shaft in the upper workings, but I say theoretically because a) getting to it involves trespassing in a working quarry and b) depending on what the head of water is behind the dam it may be well and truly sumped....

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Thanks Adam, I'll have to look further afield for a bimble then; :thumbdown:
might see ya Thurs'
Time?
Ric'

It is news to me that my "magnum opus" on the Matlock area is to be published in 2014. I have not even started doing the diagrams yet and will need help with them.
Although it will not include an account of Ball Eye, it does give a lot of detail about the sough linking Ball Eye to Matlock Bath, which of course continued into the Fountrabbey Sough system in what Lawrence Hurt called the Matlock Sough.
Together with Andy Hayes, I resurveyed Ball Eye to add more to Hurt's survey but it did not yield anything useful for the Fountrabbey System and we could not get into the Matlock Sough system - it had by then collapsed under Ball Eye Quarry. Unfortunately, we did not then know about the shafts on the sough going towards Upperwood and never even went to look at their surface features - now all destroyed by fluorspar mining.
When it is definite that I am going ahead with the Matlock book, I am hoping to put some requests for help on this website in case anyone has info on some obscure points (such as the above) that have eluded me so far.