I have a complete set of volume 1 if anyone is interested - please contact me direct if interested


Mike

I'd love to buy them but I don't think I can afford them, especially not with needing to find the cost of getting our horsebox through its test next week.... 😞

Many thanks for getting me the Old Millclose issue of Mining History, it arrived yesterday. :thumbsup:

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Amongst my library books I have the complete set of PDMHS Bulletins and Mining Journals from Volume 1, No.1 to the present issue (Volume 17, No. 2) which arrived today!

My family groan at my library, none of them are interested. This is why, going back to the earlier topic on the Forum of where to leave one's papers and books when we die, I've got to leave instructions as to where my library and papers are to go to, and not dally over it, I must do it soon.

Re Old Millclose, just thought I would mention its excellent issue - not just because some of my computer images appear in it. I know that lots of time and effort went into its complilation 😉

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What to do with collections when I die is worthy of topic on its own. I personaly treat my stock as my collection, although I do have some kept t one side and am always sorry to see certain volumes go but I have had them long enough.

A friend of mine says he treats a book in place of a night out in the pub.

Sadly I have purchased collections off relatives who have no idea of value but want things to go to a good home . In several cases I know books have been junked or just dumped at a charity shop or sold for nothing to less scrupulous dealers .

My stuff is left to a Society to dispose of as they see fit hoefully that will raise a fewquid to a cause I support

Mike

Collections do need to be provided for, especially if they contain original material. Lawrence Hurt (veteran Nottingham Mines Research Group member) came on a recent PDMHS walk around Alport and brought several excellent plans done of workings they got into from shafts that are now filled in and of workings flooded since Hillcarr sough blocked up. I just hope provision is already made for them to be archived somewhere in the long term, as they are irreplacable!

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Mike - Regarding who and where to leave one's records and books to on one's death, Iclok (with whom I spoke on the phone recently in depth on this subject) started a separate topic on this subject on 30/06/09 on the General Forum entitled "Archives - Have a Plan for the Future", it only had a few entries and seemed to die a natural death (excuse pun!). It would be nice if it was opened up again and debated with suggestions as to where one can leave one's collection to, if one didn't want to leave them to a Caving Club or Society. Local Authority Record Offices are always very pleased to accept them. I'll post in more detail at a later date on that particular forum site.

AR - apologies for not contacting you recently as promised re the information you asked me about regarding workings on Red Farm (I read your recent write up on it in PDMHS's Newsletter yesterday), this was due to a couple of problems, I will write you shortly. I'm glad you enjoyed your walk around Alport and the Hillcarr sough area (one of my favourite places although we didn't do much caving around there - once spent a day out with Nellie Kirkham there, just the two of us with all her notes and maps, a memorable day) with my old friend Laurence (I've known him since he was 18 and have had a few good caving trips with him many moons ago, he was a very hard caver), he joined Op. Mole with his friend David, he left shortly after I did and then focused his attention on soughs especially the Hillcarr sough and it's tributaries. He sent me his first report on his exploration of Hillcarr, a very detailed document, which is now safely lodged in the DRO along with my other papers. Seeing you mention him has chivied me into writing to him to ask him what he intends to do with his collection, I've been meaning to and kept putting it off. I have a plan of Hillcarr sough shewing the line of it running westwards from the west bank of the river Derwent, beneath Stanton Moor (incidently Nellie told me that it's marked by stone markers on the Moor called "polts") to Greenhills Farm at Youlgreave, Pynet Nest mine (now filled in but accessible when we were caving) and then Mawstone Mine. I should imagine that the situation regarding the changed water table in that area with the Hillcarr sough being blocked is much worse since I was last there two and a half years ago.

Thanks Sougher - I'm still waiting for my newsletter and 17-2, they must have been posting them in alphabetical order, or Mave took mine to Silence last Saturday only to find I wasn't there (I was on a flying visit to North Wales, although I managed to get a visit to the Great Orme mine in!).

From what I can gather, the water levels in the Alport mines have stabilised, and various springs and soughs that used to be dry are now taking out the excess that can't get through the blockage in Hillcarr. I don't know whether or not Terry Worthington is actively monitoring the water level at Mawstone mine, I'll ask him next time I see him.

As for the material I'm generating, I pass copies on to John Barnatt for inclusion in the PDNPA's archive, plus publication through the newsletter and Mining History where appropriate. Having a degree in archaeology, I'm well aware that finding and digging is only part of the job....

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