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lampwort
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12 years ago

Could someone clarify this for me please?
In the database on this site this mine is called "Harnisha Burn (Bollihope) Lead Mine".
Now I know it is near Harnisha Burn, but I have known it for many years as Bollihope Shield Lead Mine.
Looking at the 1890s OS map courtesy of Durham County Council GIS mapping, it is shown as Bollihope Shield Lead Mine.
So can someone tell me if either Ordnance Survey is wrong, or this site's data base is wrong

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christwigg
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12 years ago

I see that every OS maps calls it Bollihope Shield, but everyone else always seems to call it Harnisha Burn (including Dunham and Fairburn in their respective books)

lampwort
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12 years ago

So have we found an OS error? Most unusual if true.

I spent an hour searching for Bollihope Shield on this site and only came across this page by chance.

John Lawson
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12 years ago

I think that this name change took place, curtesy of West Cumbria Mines Research society.
When I first arrived at the site sometime in the mid 60's. it was being worked sporadically and was simply known as Bollihope, as Chris has already mentioned.
At a later stage, when Dave Banks was writing up meet reports he took the name from Dunham and everyone seems to have gone along with it.

christwigg
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12 years ago

Well if Dunham got it wrong, we're in good company calling it Harnisha Burn.

lampwort
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12 years ago

John,
West Cumbria Mines research is really no more at the moment. They had to leave Florence mine when it closed. Their mining artefacts are in store and their display cabinets are in a council building in Spennymoor. All their records are now in the process of being uploaded to The Durham Mining Museum website. Michael MacCrickard and Dave Banks continue their research and are currently researching old Cumbrian newspapers on our behalf. Up to now they have supplied around 45,000 names in 8,500 articles of mining related subjects, most of which are somewhere on our 95,000 page website.

christwigg
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12 years ago

Thats great news that its being digitized and put online, I imagine there are many groups that have come and gone over the years with vast amounts of information now stuck in increasingly aged chaps lofts.

lampwort
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12 years ago

We are pleased to be able to digitize West Cumbria, as it gives us a lot of Cumbrian info we had no access to. We have also added to the website Bill Riley's "www.pitwork.net" when he was taken ill and was no longer able to manage it.
The problem now is that with the database approaching 10,000 pages, we get complaints from people who do not yet have broadband, that they cannot access the site. In fact we now know that you do need braodband to be able to do anything on the site. Such is life of success.

royfellows
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12 years ago

Just out of interest so that this doesn't get lost in the mists of time, a Dave Kelly? of the WCMRG populated a Cumbrian miners database with over 11,000 miners plus related records.
I was the programmer/developer who built this and have the uncompiled source code/objects on my system.

My avatar is a poor likeness.

John Lawson
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12 years ago

#10

Good for you Roy,
I have been in touch with both Dave and Noel over the last few years and certainly the former feels a little agreeved over what happened at Florence.
In my opinion with some justification.
Dave was always interested in the historical scene of mine workers in West Cumbria and it is good to know that he is continuing on with this work.