I received this request from Tim Francis earlier today can anyone help?

Hi Mike, The MCG have been doing a lot of renewed digging at Stainsby’s Shaft at Charterhouse on the Mendips. This was a lead mine last worked in the late 1840s and early 1850s by the Mendip Mining Company. References to the workings are quite thin on the ground which isn’t surprising when it all ended up with the shareholders being swindled. Now, we have Willie Stanton’s UBSS paper and I will be perusing his original notes from the relevant Mining Journal editions. Our particular interest in the site is that there is clearly a connection to the extensions in Upper Flood Swallet below – mine washings, bits of wood etc. However we are extremely suspicious of the available survey. Willie reconstructed this from various text references, no doubt much of which was puff to keep the investors happy. So are wondering where on earth one would start looking for an original document. Joan Goddard had a great idea that because the Cornish miners were involved that a reference might turn up by chance in Cornish mining records. So any thoughts on who would be worth asking whether they have come across anything when looking through accounts from the Cornish miners? Regards, Tim Tim Francis | Director - Brand and Communications

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