Mining
This page is arranged in rough chronological order with the earliest dates first.
1527 – An agreement about Smelting of lead from Greenhow
1699 – Account of Lead at York belonging to Richard Taylor and Thomas White
1707 – An Extract from the Account Book of Thomas White
1782 – Gillfield Mine
1790 – A Memorial of Leases of Lead Mines at Greenhow
1805 – Alexander Dunn – Mining Lease
1809 – A Boundary Dispute between John Yorke Esq and Sir Thomas Woollaston White Bart
1818 – Mr R.Smith’s report of Bewerley Mines – November 30th 1818
1824 – A Plan of Sunside Mining Ground situate at Bewerley in the County of York agreed to be leased by the trustees of the late Sir Thomas Woollaston White Bart. to Messers Thomas Hopper & Co. Scale 8 Chains to an Inch. By Nathan Newbould & son.
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1827 – A page from the Cockhill & Sunside Mines Ledger 1827-1829, kept by their agent, Nathan Newbould.
1844 – A report on the state of the Principal Levels in the Greenhow Mines with remarks on some of the Veins and Workings, June 1844
1850s – Mining Questions to the agent of the Craven Moor Mines
1895 – Bradford Corporation Water Works on Greenhow A short article written by Shirley Everett.
1995 – A History of The Greenhaugh Mining Company. Written by Mike Gill and published in British Mining No 55. Memoirs of the Northern Mine Research Society (1995). Reproduced here with his kind permission.