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Certainly of interest to me and PDMHS, I'm trying to work out where it is or was. The line of trees in the background with a building in the middle looks like it could be Tagg Lane, which would place this mine roughly in the area of SK 1406 6591 but it's hard to say for sure; the only mine I know of round there that had seen some activity in the early 20th century was High Rake Mine but that's further south and IIRC you can't see Tagg Lane from there.
 
I'd agree on your general location and it was littered with small old lead workings and spoil before 1900.
I'm not convinced by the description of the trees being on Tagg Lane though. The trees along from the dairy aren't old enough to be so dense on a C1900 photo?
 
The heaps remind me of Great Greensward mine on Horse lane.
That did have the shaft covered with timbers like that in the mid 70's.
Plus it was worked comparatively late when the level was started from Lathkilldale.
 
Greensward looking southwest towards Monyash is possible, that would put a plantation and barn in the background or going a bit further east, there's Old Beck Mine, looking west-southwest from there would get the view of plantations and the barn.
Alternatively, there's Eagle Mine that's another possibility -you'd see the same barn and plantation looking northeast from there.
 
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just throwing it out there .

Old Ariel photos ?
 
Here's a photo of an old Ariel:

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Joking aside, the earliest air photos will probably be 1948, so long after this photo was taken.
 
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Postcard is now mine, or will be once I've gone down to Matlock to collect it. The more I look at it, the more I'm thinking it's Old Beck Mine looking across towards Blores Barn Farm but I'll wait until I've got the original and had a peer through a magnifying glass.
 
Jim MacPherson said:
There are some RAF photos from the early 1940's, including upland parts of the Northern Pennines and https://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/en has some at least from the 1920's, The site's free but you do need to register.

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There's nothing covering the areas in question available on that site, or on Historic England's air photo explorer site - https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/archive/collections/aerial-photos/

I recall there were some air photos for the Monyash area in Nellie Kirkham's papers but I also recall the quality of the prints wasn't particularly good, at least not compared to the ones I bought from Historic England some years back
 
I’ll have to have a look on those tonight .

A few areas I wouldn’t mind searching for !
 
I seem to remember that the German air force carried out a significant survey before WWII and those photos survive and are available 'somewhere'. I cannot remember how selective this survey was, it may have been restricted to obvious targets. I can however remember seeing some of Swansea and the resolution and quality was very good.
 
The Americans seized the Luftwaffe air photo archives at the end of the war, though I believe Historic England have scans of some but not all of them and have added them to their viewer. The 1946-48 RAF survey did cover the entire UK I think, and the other great thing about that survey is that the photos are stereoscopic pairs so you can if you want go down to HE's Swindon office and view sets of photos through the stereo viewer!

Going back to the main subject, having picked up the postcard today and examined it with a magnifying glass in good light, I now think that it's Upper Hubberdale engine shaft looking down towards Moor Grange, the building in the background is rather more elaborate than a barn or simple farmhouse and as soon as I looked at it closely I thought "that's Moor Grange". I'll take the dog for a walk along that footpath in the next few days and try to get a match shot.

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After walking the path today I'm satisfield that the photo is Upper Hubberdale looking towards Moor Grange. I think there has been some disturbance to the surrounding hillock, possibly sparring for barytes in the early 1950s (there was a washing plant nearby on Wham Rake) but the shaft and gin circle are still there. The database record has got the location wrong, the pin on the map is in the area of Middle Hubberdale shaft, but Upper Hubberdale is at SK 13248 70832
 
Thanks for flagging it up, as a result we now have a positive ID on where the photo was taken and the original will be going into the PDMHS archive in due course. Im just a bit sad Steve Thompson isn't around to see it
 
I got hold of a rare book once cost a fair bit . Inside was 1 photo , I also managed to research it from that, go to the location and find the original lumps of concrete in the ground that the tippler dock stood on . "was a tippler dock on the photo" .

Old photos are gold dust ! It appears a lot of old quarries got used for landfills over past 150 years .
 
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