Can this be added to the description for Barneycraig, thanks.

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Barneycraig Level Carrshield, West Allendale, Northumberland. OS Ref: NY80394672.

The Barneycraig Level was started around 1760 by the Beaumont Company. The level starts underneath the great limestone and runs straight for over 1Km, it then branches towards the Low Coalcleugh Vein, the main branch carries on for a further 990m reaching the Barneycraig Veins. These workings became active between 1808 and 1823 and proved to be very rich in the belt of the great limestone.

By 1880 the level was regarded as being exhausted for lead by the Beaumont Company. However it was reopened by the Vieille Montagne Zinc Company and reworked for zinc ore. The VMZC drove their workings from Rampgill Shaft in Rampgill Mine to join the Barneycraig Level, some 16m below the Rampgill Horse level horizon. The direct continuation of the Rampgill Vein in Nenthead is know as the Woodhouse Vein of Barneycraig Level.

The level today is blocked, though it does continue in for a considerable distance. There have been attempts at digging to get through to the Rampgill side, but this has been thwarted by bad air with reports of people passing out, even when attempted by commercial bodies.

Mr Mike.

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Carrshield was reworked in a small operation in the late 1970's if I remember rightly. I can remember as a kid it still being in operation for Flourspar I think, not sure if it was by British Steel but I think as a private enterprise with BS as the customer. Not entirely sure if it was Barneycraig or Scraithole (I think the latter)

Carrshield was reworked in a small operation in the late 1970's if I remember rightly. I can remember as a kid it still being in operation for Flourspar I think, not sure if it was by British Steel but I think as a private enterprise with BS as the customer. Not entirely sure if it was Barneycraig or Scraithole (I think the latter)

You are quite correct, it was Scraithole 😉

Description uprgraded Mr.M 🙂

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Carrshield was reworked in a small operation in the late 1970's if I remember rightly. I can remember as a kid it still being in operation for Flourspar I think, not sure if it was by British Steel but I think as a private enterprise with BS as the customer. Not entirely sure if it was Barneycraig or Scraithole (I think the latter)

You are quite correct, it was Scraithole 😉

Description uprgraded Mr.M 🙂

I was only around 10 years old at the time 😉
As you know, I have a great deal of difficulty with names anyway, remembering which mine is which is never my strong point. I have even been known to make up mine names when I can't remember 😞

Er... .the bad news is, it gets worse with age. But bizarrely, my memory for numbers seems to be improving by way of compensating. Sometimes I can even remember large numbers like my age :lol:

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Er... .the bad news is, it gets worse with age. But bizarrely, my memory for numbers seems to be improving by way of compensating. Sometimes I can even remember large numbers like my age :lol:

But you do have an aide-memoir Colonel...... A mirror. 🙂

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Er... .the bad news is, it gets worse with age. But bizarrely, my memory for numbers seems to be improving by way of compensating. Sometimes I can even remember large numbers like my age :lol:

But you do have an aide-memoir Colonel...... A mirror. 🙂

Ah yes. But of course I only forget my name when I get caught exiting somewhere I shouldnt have been .. 😉 ... :confused: .... :lol:

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