Lolly Scar Mine

Lolly Level was begun as a crosscut south to Lolly Vein in 1866, but stopped soon afterwards. Little more appears to have been done at the mine until 1889, when Joseph Cradock, of Stockton on Tees, took up the lease. Edward Cherry, of Fremington, was employed as agent, and William Peacock was manager until his death in May 1901.

Lolly Vein runs east to west and has been worked over a distance of 4400 feet. In 1904, work in Walker’s Vein, which is parallel to Lolly Vein and 540 feet south of it, was resumed. It had been found in 1901, by John Peacock’s and James Walker’s crosscuts.

Cradock tried a number of parallel strings near the Lolly Vein, the most well developed of these being Silver Hill Vein. In 1905, a crosscut was driven due south in grit, for a distance of 165 feet from where a drift was driven for 240 feet to the west. The mine proved to be poor and was closed in 1908.

Joseph Caygill’s Hand Level was started on July 7th 1906, to work an east to west string, but was closed in November of that same year.

For further details please see British Mining No 60 - The Greenhow Mines by MC Gill