NCMRS Memoirs 1960-1974

Some articles have been made available online from these publications – please click the relevant link below.

We have either been unsuccessful at contacting the author, or their heirs, or permission has been refused, for the remaining articles. If you can help, please contact us.

• The Discovery of Reindeer Bones in Stump Cross Caverns, Greenhow Hill (ER Collins)
• Standards of Cave Surveying (JM Dickinson)
• Divining (JC Wade)
• The House of Water (RS Harker)
• Lead Miners Tools and Equipment Illustrated from Examples in the Backhouse Collection of Photographs, Central Library, Leeds(RT Clough)
• Lead Mines and Mining at Cononley, near Skipton, Yorkshire (RT Clough)
• When the Boom was on, or Reminiscences of Mining Days at Cononley (JW Moorhouse)
• Clough Head Level, Sutton in Craven (JM Dickinson)
• Mongo Gill Hole, Greenhow Hill (JC Wade & JM Dickinson)
• NCMRS Survey of Mongo Gill North Caverns, Greenhow Hill, January 1961 (B Smith)
• The Founder’s Meer (A Raistrick)
• The North Pennine Metalliferous Mining Fields: A Glossary of Technical Terms used in the area (JR Foster-Smith)
• The Geology of South Crofty Mine (TE Gillett)
• Alexander von Humboldt Pioneer in Speleology (MG Wood)
• Some Notes on the Lead Mines of Greenhow Hill (JM Dickinson)
• Cave Fauna: Life in Darkness (DH Platt)
• A Lost Cavern near Darlington, Co. Durham: Ancient Prophecy 
• A Mine near Dinkling Green, Yorkshire (AE Cannell)
• Geyser Stalagmites: Description of a noteworthy curiosity in the Cuban Underground {Trans. by M.E. Wood} (AN Jimenez)
• Society Records (A Raistrick)
• Leicester University Speleological Society Research Programme (M Hooper)
• Alum Pot Area (DT Richardson)
• Buckden Gavel Mine (JC Wade)
• Oxford University Expedition to Northern Spain (JD Wilcock)
• Crackpot Cave Survey (RG Guthrie)
• Bullocks and Geese (RG Guthrie)
• Epitome of Evidence, North of England Lead Mines, Mr William Barron – Craven Moor Mines (NCMRS Records)
• Analysis of water samples from Upper Long Churn Cave and springs in the vicinity of Alum Pot, Selside, Horton in Ribblesdale, Yorkshire (DT Richardson)
• Report on the Annual Conference of the British Speleological Association, Sheffield, August 1963 (JD Wilcock)
• Report on the Southern General Meeting of the Cave Research Group of Great Britain, June 1963 (JD Wilcock)
• Bullocks and Geese (RS Harker & DT Richardson)
• Sale of a Share in a Lead Mine (Galloway Ridge Mine) (NCMRS Records)
• Sarah Lead Mine, Grassington Moor, Cavendish Vein 40 fathom level (JM Dickinson)
• Low Level and Hooksbank Vein, Dowber Gill, Kettlewell (RS Harker)
• Embleton Lead Mine, Embleton, Cumberland (JDJ Wildridge)
• Mines of the Nenthead -Weardale Head District (AE Cannell)
• St Hubert Mine, Nr Holden, Bowland (AE Cannell)
• The Scordale Mines, Appleby, Westmorland (AE Cannell)
• Swaledale Mines (AE Cannell)
• Little Hole, Hilton Fell, Appleby, Westmorland (JG Guthrie & F Hall)
• {Padirac} The Great Cave of France (RA Kershaw)
• Alum Pot Area – Field Report (DT Richardson)
• Buckden Gavel Mine – Field Report (JC Wade & DT Richardson)
• Analysis of spring, stream and River waters from the Buckden – Cray – Hubberholme area, Yorkshire (DT Richardson)
• The Appletreewick Lead Mining Company 1870 to 1872, Part 1: Mining and Miners (JM Dickinson)
• The Effect of Lead Mining on the Population of Villages in the Wharfedale Lead Mining Field 1853-1880
  (V Davis & JM Dickinson)
• Lead Mining in Derbyshire (JG Guthrie)
• Extracts from an Abstract of the Coal Mines Regulation Acts 1887-1896, Issued to the employees of the Yorkshire Iron and Coal Company Ltd, West Ardsley Collieries, Leeds (NCMRS Records)
• A Visit to the Pengelly Cave Research Centre (JD Wilcock)
• Some Decorated Caves in North West Spain (MG Wood)
• Water Analysis (DT Richardson)
• Victoria Mine, Nr Holden, Bowland (AE Cannell)
• Dale Head Copper Mine, Newlands, Nr Keswick (JDJ Wildridge)
• Stone That Hurt Toe Brought in Riches (Anon)
• Ironstone (JDJ Wildridge)
• Society News
• Leicester University Speleological Society Research Programme (RS Harker)
• The Appletreewick Lead Mining Company 1870 to 1872, Part 2: Engines, Dressing and Smelting of Ore (JM Dickinson)
• Health of Miners from Epitome of Mines, 1860-63, Merryfield Mines, Storey Level, Collage Level (NCMRS Records)
• The Brora Coalfield, Sutherland (RS Harker)
• Embleton Lead Mine, Embleton, Cumberland (JDJ Wildridge)
• The Discovery of a Human Skeleton in Buckden Gavel Mine (AR Nichols)
• The Formation of a National Punch Card Index of Cave Fauna (PCS Schofield)
• Water Analysis (DT Richardson)
• Report on the 1964 Southern Region National Meeting of the Cave Research Group of Great Britain (JD Wilcock)
• Haltcliff Cave, Cumberland (JDJ Wildridge)
• Plumbago Mines, Seathwaite, Cumberland (JDJ Wildridge)
• Society News
• The Appletreewick Lead Mining Company 1870 to 1872, Part 3: Sundry Works, Mine Management, Stores
  (JM Dickinson)
• Eagle Level (JM Dickinson)
• Lead Returns of the A.D. Mining Company, Swaledale (NCMRS Records)
• And Things That Go Bump In The Night (JE Freeman)
• Iron Ores of the Lake District and Furness (J Moon)
• A Further Report on the Nenthead District (AE Cannell)
• A Report on a Mine at Sykes, Bowland Forest (AE Cannell)
• Report on the British Speleological Association Conference, 1964 (JD Wilcock)
• Report of the Northern Region National Meeting of the Cave Research Group of Great Britain, 1964 (JD Wilcock)
• Society News
• The Dales Chemical Company (JM Dickinson)
• Thomas Blackah: A Short Biography (NCMRS Records)
• Extracts from Old Editions of the Mining Journal – Arkengarthdale, Grassington, Craven Moor and other mines in the Yorkshire Dales (JR Foster-Smith)
• General Report of the Leadmines in Coalcleugh District, Northumberland for the month ending August 31st 1860
  (J Nevin)
• Reports of Coalcleugh Mine, 1861 (NCMRS Records)
• Lead Values in 1536 & 1537 (RG Guthrie)
• Some Extracts from Poor Law Records: Arkengarthdale Select Vestry (RG Guthrie)
• On Lead Smelting in England in the 17th Century {Mendip Mines, Philisophical Transactions 1668, Vol.3, p.770} (J Glanvil)
• Ore Hearth of Keld Mining Co. Smelter, Wensleydale (NCMRS Records)
• Janey Pedley’s Stories (RG Guthrie)
• The Tolgus Tin Stamping Co. Ltd, Redruth, Cornwall (WJ Houston)
• Wheal Owles and Boscean United Mining Company Limited, St Just, Penzance, Cornwall (RS Harker)
• The Dolgellau Gold Belt (AE Cannell)
• Coal and Iron Workings in Upper Airedale (JM Dickinson & JE Holding)
• Grassington Moor Cavern (NCMRS Records)
• How Gill Mine Fissure (NCMRS Records)
• Beldon Pot, Beldon Moor, Wensleydale (RG Guthrie)
• Cave Fauna of Cuba (Trans. by Miss E.I. Wood) (AN Jiminez)
• Borrins Moor Cave, Horton in Ribblesdale: Micro-organisms – A Preliminary Survey (KA Wright)
• Starbotton Moor End Mine, Starbotton, Nr Kettlewell, Yorkshire: Preliminary Biological Report and Analysis of Water Samples
  (JM Dixon & DT Richardson)
• Water Analysis (DT Richardson)
• Sleets Gill Cave, Littondale: Preliminary Scientific Survey (DT Richardson)
• Report of the Southern National Meeting of the Cave Research Group of Great Britain (JD Wilcock)
• Report of the Northern National Meeting of the Cave Research Group of Great Britain, 1965 (JD Wilcock)
• Editorial
• The Grimwith Lead Mining Co Ltd (JM Dickinson)
• Hydraulic Pumping and Winding Machinery, Sir Francis Level, Swaledale (PD Lodge)
• Conistone Moor Mines, Wharfedale (A Raistrick)
• Wharfedale and Airedale Lead Mines selling ore in the County of York in 1868 (RS Harker)
• Old Mine Timbers (JM Dickinson)
• Copper Ores of the Lake District, correspondence dated 1684 (RS Harker)
• The Mashamshire Collieries (SW Feather)
• Hurst Lead Mine, Swaledale (RG Guthrie)
• Ashnott Mine near Newton, Bowland, Lancs (AE & M Cannell)
• Mineral Occurences in Marl Clough Beck, near Newton, Bowland, Lancs (AE & M Cannell)
• Britains Earliest Mines – Grime’s Graves, Norfolk (E Dixon)
• The Quarries of Box Hill, Wiltshire (RJ Bater)
• Saline Spring, Brandlehow Mine, near Keswick (SW Feather)
• Analysis of Water Samples from the Greenhow Area (DT Richardson)
• Report on the Northern National Meeting of the Cave Research Group of Great Britain 1966 (JD Wilcock)
• Report on the Southern National Meeting of the Cave Research Group of Great Britain 1966 (JD Wilcock)
• Officers 1966
• Publications issued by the Society
• Society Publications – Future Policy, Notice to Subscribers
• Burhill Mines (JM Dickinson)
• Wharfedale Mine (JM Dickinson & MC Gill)
• Catalogue of a Collection of Mine Plans Relative to the Greenhow Hill Area; the property of P.W. Varvill Esq
  (RT Clough)
• Warrant Against Adam Barker 2nd May 1692 (JL Barker)
• To the Poor Miner and to Every Nobleman, Gentleman, and Tradesman in the Kingdom who feels interested in a miner’s fate (JL Barker)
• Letter from John Renshaw to Phillip Lord Wharton Lord of the Muker and Healaugh Manors, 10th July, 1685
  (JL Barker)
• Documents Relating to Dispute Over Ownership of Grinton Manor (JL Barker)
• Fourteen and Ten Meers and other eighteenth century mine disputes on Grassington Moor (A Raistrick)
• A Brief Survey of Beam Pumping Engines Employed on Lead Mines in Flintshire (R Bayles)
• Notes on Lead Mines on the East Side of Wharfedale between Buckden and Kettlewell (JR Foster-Smith)
• The Rimington Lead and Silver Mines (JM Dickinson)
• Some Notes on Scottish Mines (SH Jackson, R Jackson, P Jackson)
• Working of the Alston Moor Lead Mines (J & J Lawson)
• The Smallcleugh Fan (JDJ Wildridge)
• Lead Mines of Weardale and Teesdale, Report by Inspectors of Fisheries 1867 (Mining Journal)
• The Geology and Non-ferrous Mines of the Buttermere and Loweswater Valleys (J Moon, JDJ Wildridge)
• A Brief Account of the Geology, History and Mechanisation of the Snailbeach Mine, Shropshire (RV Davis)
• On further visits to Mineral Occurences in the Forest of Bowland, Lancashire and Yorkshire (AE Cannell, M Cannell)
• The Iron Mines on Tongue Gill, Westmorland (AE Cannell, M Cannell)
• Greenhead Gill Trial, Westmorland (AE Cannell, M Cannell)
• Hartsop Hall Mines, Westmorland (AE Cannell, M Cannell)
• Lowthwaite Mines, Cumberland (AE Cannell, M Cannell)
• Grisedale Lead Mines, Patterdale, Westmorland (AE Cannell, M Cannell)
• The Elterwater Slate Quarries, Westmorland (AE Cannell, M Cannell)
• The Mines of South-West Scotland (AE Cannell, M Cannell)
• Underground in Arran, Bute, Scotland (AE Cannell, M Cannell)
• The Llanrwst Mining Area, Caernarvon, N. Wales (AE Cannell, M Cannell)
• Grime’s Graves, Norfolk (AE Cannell, M Cannell)
• Documents Relating to the Beldi Hill Dispute (JL Barker)
• Extract from one of the law case Re Beldi Hill Dispute 1769 (JL Barker)
• Portion of Letter and Plan re Beldi Hill Flooding of mine etc (JL Barker)
• Details relating to Grinton and Harkerside Mine, Grinton Parish, Yorkshire, probably compiled by Adam Barker (about 1870) who was manager of Harkerside and Whitaside Mines (JL Barker)
• Report of the 1968 Southern National Meeting of the Cave Research Group of Great Britain (JD Wilcock)
• Parc Lead Mine, Llanwrst, North Wales (R Bayles)
• The Routine at Birks Smelt Mill, Buckden, in the Eighteenth Century (A Raistrick)
• Notes on Wharfedale Smelt Mills (A Raistrick)
• Peat as an Industrial Fuel (JM Burnett)
• The Greenhow Lead Mining Field (JM Dickinson)
• Compressed Air Drilling in the Yorkshire Dales Lead Mines (JM Dickinson)
• Grassington Mines: Accounts 1796 (J Lawson)
• The History of Coal Mining in the Parishes of Distington and Moresby (1614-1880), West Cumberland (J Moon)
• The Mine Buildings of the Upper Nent Valley, Part 1: Buildings Extant (P Jackson)
• Some Preliminary Notes on the Mining Region of Alston Moor (P Jackson)
• An Inventory of Water Power Sites in the Coniston Massif, Lancashire (JK Major)
• The New Beldon Lead Mining Company Limited (Mining Journal)
• New Beldon Lead Mining Company (Mining Journal)
• Tees Head and Crossgill Head Consols Mining Company (Mining Journal)
• A Contemporary Description of the Flats at Hudgillburn Mine, Alston (Anon)
• The Snailbeach Mining Company 1767 to 1911 (M Albutt, F Brook)
• Mine Railways: An introduction to their history and development in the North of England (D Joy)
• The Collection of Cave Fungi (BD Cubbon)
• The Study of Underground Features from Aerial Photographs (AC Waltham)
• Speleological Studies in Upper Wharfedale (DT Richardson)
• Statistics of the Production of Barytes, Copper, Lead and Zinc Ores from the Pennines, 1848-81, Part 1: The Central Pennine Orefield (J Lawson)
• Extracts from old editions of the Mining Journal – Cumberland (Compiled by J Brooke)
• Extracts from old editions of the Mining Journal – Blubberhouses (Compiled by J Brooke)
• The Cornish Beam Pumping Engine at Dorothea Slate Quarry (R Bayles)
• Gilfrach Copper Mine (R Bayles)
• Settlingstones – The World’s Last Witherite Mine (F Brook)
• The Allendale Bargain Books (JL Pearce)
• Valuation of plant at Sir Francis Level, from Sir G.W. Denys Bart to the A.D. Mining Company Ltd (J MacPherson)
• Two Small Mine Buildings of Alston Moor (P Jackson)
• Dry Gill Mill (AR Nichols)
• Some Notes on the Sinking of Bentley Colliery (MC Gill)
• Fissure Development in the Cotswolds (RV Davis)
• Underground in Essex and Kent (AE & M Cannell)
• Statistics of Mineral Production of the Pennines, Part 2: Westmorland and the Lake District (J Lawson)
• The Rules of the Leadhills Mining Company (WS Harvey)
• Observations of Bats in Stump Cross Caverns (GH Workman)
• Lead Mining with Steam in the Craven Dales (JM Dickinson)
• Lead Ore Production in the High Peak 1832-48, Part 1: Winster Liberty (SJ Thompson)
• Waterwheel Pumping Engines on the Straitsteps Vein at Wanlockhead (G Downs-Rose)
• The Lead Miners of Swaledale and Arkengarthdale in 1851 (JL Barker)
• The Mineral Veins of Swinden Knoll (JM Dickinson)
• Mine Safety (JR Foster-Smith)
• Old Providence Lead Mine (JM Dickinson)
• An Experiment in Underground Living (GH Workman)
• Extracts from old editions of the Mining Journal 1870-72
• Statistics of Mineral Production of the Pennines, Part 3: Staffordshire & Cheshire (J Lawson)
• The Mines of Windy Hill, Woodend and Barf (JDJ Wildridge)
• The London (Quaker) Lead Company Mines in Yorkshire (A Raistrick)
• Lead Ore Production in the High Peak 1832-48, Part 2: Chelmorton, Flagg, Monyash, Taddington, and Upper Haddon Liberties(SJ Thompson)
• Weights and Measures used at the Mines of Leadhills and Wanlockhead in the Late Eighteenth Century (WS Harvey)
• Mines of the Buttermere and Loweswater Valleys (JDJ Wildridge)
• Notes on Sygun Mine (P Jackson)
• Mines & Mine Owners in the Central Pennines, Part 1: Swaledale & Wensleydale (J Lawson)
• Historical Notes on Wheal Jane (J Brooke)
• The Mines of Auchencairn (WT Shaw)
• Notes on the Rockley Mine (RH Bird)
• Buckden Gavel Lead Mine (MC Gill)
• Memories of an Old Collier (JA Aked)
• The Inundation of the Spitalwell Mine (RH Bird)
• Mines & Mine Owners in the Central Pennines, Part 2: Wharfedale & Nidderdale with Airedale (J Lawson)
• Lolly Scar & Blayshaw Gill Lead Mines (MC Gill)
• Surface Remains at East End Shaft (P Jackson)

Society name change – the “and cavern” was dropped.

Publications continue from 1975 as Northern Mine Research Society