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Grove Rake (Lead Ore)
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| Location: | Weardale 11½ miles [18 km] E of Alston |
| Map Ref: | (Sheet 87) NY897442, 54° 47' 33" N, 2° 9' 37" W |
| Maps: |  1896 map detailed map from the Ordnance Survey |
| 1952 map Lead mines of the Northern Dales |
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| Opened: | |
| Closed: | 1999 |
| Owners: | 1890s - Weardale Lead Mining Co. Ltd. |
| 1930s - Allenheads Mining Co. Ltd. | |
| 1930s - Billing Ganister & Minerals Co. Ltd. | |
| 1980s - Weardale Mining & Processing Ltd. | |
| Output: | 1894 - Lead Ore. |
| 1896 - Lead Ore. | |
| 1900 - Lead Ore. | |
| 1902 - Lead Ore, Fluorspar. | |
| 1905 - Lead ore and fluor spar. | |
| 1910 - Lead ore and fluor spar. | |
| 1915 - Lead ore. | |
| 1921 - Fluorspar. | |
| 1923 - Fluorspar. | |
| 1924 - Fluorspar. | |
| 1925 - Fluorspar. | |
| 1929 - Fluorspar, Ganister. | |
| 1930 - Fluorspar. | |
| 1935 - Fluorspar. | |
| 1944 - Fluorspar. | |
| 1979 - Fluorspar, Lead Ore. | |
| 1980 - Fluorspar, Lead Ore. | |
| 1983 - Lead Ore, Fluorspar. | |
| 1984 - Lead Ore, Fluorspar. | |
| Detailed Mineral Statistics for Grove Rake (Lead Ore) |
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| Employment: | 1894 - 175 (114 below, 61 surface) |
| 1896 - 75 (45 below, 30 surface) | |
| 1900 - 12 | |
| 1902 - 9 (6 below, 3 surface) | |
| 1905 - 1 | |
| 1910 - 1 | |
| 1915 - 1 | |
| 1921 - 2 | |
| 1923 - 3 | |
| 1924 - 0 [Not worked in 1924] | |
| 1925 - 0 [Not worked since 1923] | |
| 1929 - 15 (10 below, 5 surface) | |
| 1930 - 11 (6 below, 5 surface) | |
| 1935 - 7 (4 below, 3 surface) | |
| 1944 - 0 [Discontinued 1941] | |
| Colliery Management (prior to 1970)
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| Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Grove Rake (Lead Ore) |
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| Notes: | 1872 - Abandoned |
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Description
Boltsburn is another village which derives its name from a burn or stream running at right angles to Rookhope Burn. Rookhope Burn joins the Wear at Eastgate. The principal employment of the inhabitants of this parish is farming, lead-mining, quarrying, and the railway of the Weardale Coal and Iron Company. The lead mining is carried on by the Weardale Lead Company, who have mines situated at Boltsburn and Groverake in this parish [Rookhope], and others in the parishes of Westgate and Heatherycleuch. The railway of the Weardale Coal and Iron Company runs from Park Head, in the parish of Stanhope, where it joins the North-Eastern line, through Rookhope, to Westgate, and is used for the conveyance of coal, limestone, lead, &c. Coal for the village, smelt-mill, and Westgate; limestone from the quarry of the Weardale Coal and Iron Company to their iron-works, and lead from the mines to the smelt-mill, and thence to the market.
Whellan's 1894 Directory of County Durham
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Disasters (5 or more killed)
None Found
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Names of those killed at this colliery
Please note that this collection of names is by no means complete!
 | Gardiner, Joseph William, 10 Nov 1884, (accident: 25 Mar 1884), aged 22, Miner, severe injury to back by fall of ground in a stope | |||||
| Reed, Walton, 12 Aug 1892, 2:30 p.m., 1st hour of shift, aged 24, Miner, while descending a shaft the cage halted, and he thinking it was at the bottom, got out and fell a distance of 12 feet; the cage afterwards came down on to him [More information ...] | |||||
| Robson, Matthew, 14 Jul 1884, aged 27, Cartman, while delivering timber at the mine a tree fell off waggons and killed him [fatality reported during the year but not classified as a reportable accident] | |||||
| Roddam, John Joseph, 03 Nov 1882, aged 16, Lead Washer, crushed by elevator wheels in jigger house, Buried: Holy Trinity, Rookhope on 07 Nov 1882 | |||||
| 4 names found | ||||||
If you know of any fatalities missing from the above list then please contact us with the details and we will add them to our database.
Those names marked with ,
have a web page providing individual details of the accident, the page may
also include a photograph of the deceased.
Click on the symbol
next to the name to see the web page.
more information on some of the fatalities shown above
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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Grove Rake (Lead Ore)
list of collieries/pits etc. near to Grove Rake (Lead Ore)
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Gallery Images:
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Credits
Sources:
- 1882 Mines Inspectors Report (C 3621) Where to find this report
- 1884 Mines Inspectors Report (C 4429), Durham District by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
- 1892 Mines Inspectors Report (C 6986), Durham District (No. 4) by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
- 1894 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1896 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, also available online at Peak District Mines Historical Society Ltd
- 1900 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1902 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1905 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1910 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1915 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1921 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1923 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1924 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1925 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1929 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1930 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1935 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1944 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1979 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
- 1980 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
- 1983 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
- 1984 Directory of Mines & Quarries published by The British Geological Survey
- Headstone(s) in Holy Trinity, Rookhope
- History, Topography, and Directory of the County Palatine of Durham by Francis Whellan. Second edition published in 1894.
Pictures:
- Photograph copyright © by Kev Duncan
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Related Links:
| On this site | |
| | Newspaper articles |
| | Extracts from Bargain Books relating to Groverake — kindly provided by John Stark |
| | Pictures in the Gallery section for Grove Rake Mine |
| External sites | |
 | UK Headgears Site - among the photographs is the Groverake headgear taken in 2001 |
Further Reading:
- British Small Mines (North) by A. J. Booth, published in 2000 by Industrial Railway Society, ISBN 1 901556 15 8
Further Research:
Research Notes for Grove Rake (Lead Ore)
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