Old pics of Mining around Eyam

Lauren Wilson said:
Thank you - again :) Your help is going to make the captions to these pics "real" for his family, and is much appreciated.
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I've had a look on StreetView and from what can be seen on there between the houses on Glebe Park, that's definitely the back of Eyam school in pic 1.
 
Sorry never managed to identify Mining7.jpg but you could caption it
"Stacked Lead Ingots outside smelting house. Unidentified mine, Scotland?"

He definitely made a trip to West coast Scotland, given his picture of a trip to: Ailsa Craig
 
I'd be a bit cautious about assuming those smelter photos are of somewhere in Scotland, I've had a quick scan through the pics in Raistrick and Roberts and some of the ones of Allenheads make me wonder. Also, as I mentioned earlier the dress of the people in them looks pre-WW1 which makes me suspect they're photos he was given by someone else as opposed to ones he took himself in the 1930s?
 
Hanging Flat interesting. I have a memory of it with the entrance inside a wooden shed with big "Keep Out" sign. I have a way of dating memories by relating to what car I was using. I ran a motor company and would use a vehicle for about 6 months before putting them on the sales forcourt. However, I had a new XR3i Dec 1985 to 1989 and I associate this memory with that car. Door was hanging open, no pun intended, and I just kitted up and went in. Later all gone and filled in, but eventually dug open as we have today.
 
Blackwells were actively sparring in the first two decades of the 20th century, after George Blackwell died his sons set up a new business, the Grove Syndicate so I'd place this photo roughly at 1910.
 
Royfellows said:
Hanging Flat interesting. I have a memory of it with the entrance inside a wooden shed with big "Keep Out" sign. I have a way of dating memories by relating to what car I was using. I ran a motor company and would use a vehicle for about 6 months before putting them on the sales forcourt. However, I had a new XR3i Dec 1985 to 1989 and I associate this memory with that car. Door was hanging open, no pun intended, and I just kitted up and went in. Later all gone and filled in, but eventually dug open as we have today.
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i remember things through what car i had at the time too :ROFLMAO:
 
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