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Mines, Maps and eyewitness evidence

More maps to explore
The Testimony of Patience Kershaw
These page expands on two events in the 1840s:
  • the start of the Ordnance Survey map series - some of the early town maps are at a seriously large scale
  • the commissions led by Lord Shaftesbury, whose job was to gather evidence on the actual effect of work on children
This link takes you straight to the 1840s 6-inch map, showing Radcliffe. Work from the bottom right - sorry, south-east corner of the map, along the canal, and you'll find coal pits galore  http://maps.nls.uk/view/102344024
This link gives a summary of the pits in the area after 1850 - bear in mind coal's been gathered and used since the 1200s, so this is by no means a definitive list. Many early pits are still unrecorded, so watch your step in them there hills: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_collieries_in_Lancashire_since_1854#Bury
The biggest coal mine in the area seems to have been at Ladyshore, owned if I may say so by the biggest set of barstewards in the area (my own opinion). The Fletchers infiltrated every level of public life, defied legislation and even defied the courts. Ah, the good old days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladyshore_Colliery
For the text of the Commission into the Employment of Children in Mines, try Mines Commission evidence:   https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=WnFbAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en
The volumes can be difficult to search, either in print or online, so I've printed out extracts here that pertain to mines in the Bury-Bolton area
The volume on the calico printing industry is available at Lancashire Archives in Preston. I've picked out three pages that refer to evidence gathered in the Bury area:
Page 1: 'Know Mill' and Hampson's Mill
Page 2: Hampson's Mill cont'd, child interviews
Page 3: from Blackford Mill, includes child interviews and descriptions of toxic dyestuffs

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  • Home
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  • Newton Rigg 2019
    • 5th Century Collapse
    • saving civilisation
    • buildings and sculpture
    • Viking Christians
    • Place name activities
  • Writing
    • Saturday pictures
    • The King & I
    • Threads
    • Owd Moleskin
    • 26 october 1962
    • Miss Carney innovates
    • visiting time
    • Sea-glass
    • Sunlight
    • Tommy Kenny
    • When my feet are comfortable
    • Auntie Sadie's Cocktail Cabinet
    • The Fire in the Hearth
    • Margaret Thatcher April 2013
  • Lessons from History
    • Mines and maps
    • Patience Kershaw
    • Bury 1849 in maps
    • Bury's 19th century Popualtion
    • Overcrowding in focus
    • Entertaining Bury >
      • Bury's Pub History
      • Theatres and music halls
      • Markets and fairs
      • Pleasure Gardens and Parks >
        • Bury Baths
  • Random archaeology
  • Old WEA courses
    • Ancient Mediterranean >
      • The Palaeolithic Period
      • From Hunters to Farmers
      • The origins of farming
      • The spread of farming
      • The discovery of metal
      • Los Millares
      • The Minoans
      • Mycenae
      • The Phoenicians
      • Ancient Greece part 1
      • Ancient Greece Part 2
      • The Etruscans
    • Ancient Middle East >
      • Session 2
      • Session 3
      • Session 4
      • Session 5
      • Cylinder Seals
      • Göbekli Tepe
      • Reed Construction
    • Ice Age to Iron Age >
      • Session 1
      • Session 2
      • Session 3
      • Session 4
      • Session 5
      • Session 6
      • Session 7
      • Session 8
      • Session 9
      • Session 10
    • The Legacy of the Holy Land >
      • Session 1: Introduction to the Levant
      • Session 2: Origins:the first human settlement
      • Session 3: About the Exodus
      • Session 4: the Land of Milk and Honey
      • Session 5: Israel and the people of Canaan
      • Session 6: the influence of Greece
      • Session 7: Romans, Jews and Christians
      • Session 8: Emperor Gods and early Christians
      • Session 9: How Christianity became powerful
      • Session 10: The Crusades
  • Contact
  • Armchair Archaeology
    • Place names >
      • Place name activities
    • Maps online
    • screen shot
    • Spotting sites
    • Lidar
    • Useful websites
    • Friday stuff
  • crossing continents
    • Mesopotamia before 1200 BCE
    • Euphrates-Indus trade routes
    • Indus Valley
    • Indus part 2
    • China to 1000 BCE
    • All change 1200 BCE
    • Greek influence
    • Roman-Han trade
    • Islam, Mongols&Sea trade
  • Crossing Continents 2
    • Europa and the bull
    • Climate change and DNA
    • DNA after the ice
    • dna limits & ethics
    • Malta in prehistory
    • Stone Age traders
    • Metal, Migration&Trade
    • iron and Identity
    • Celts and Rome
    • Europe into the Middle Ages