Photos and documents

working_on_temple_mine

Preparing Temple Mine for opening to visitors, Temple Road, Matlock Bath, Derbyshire 1982 (Museum ref: MATMM:P.125)

terry_on_phone_in_shaft

Terry Worthington descends Mawstone Mine shaft, Youlgreave, Derbyshire, 1989 (Museum ref: MATMM:P.1338)

pay_packet

Pay packet No.222 issued to Dale, Joseph 31.7.1925 for work at Millclose Mine, Darley Dale (Museum ref: MATMM:D.768)

Paul_deakin_descending_shaft

Paul Deakin descends Brewery Shaft in Ramp Gill Mine, Nenthead, Cumbria, 1990 (Museum ref: MATMM:P.1001)

manuscript

Original manuscript of ‘The Liberties and Customs of the Wapentake of Wirksworth in the County of Derby’ composed in meeter by Edward Manlove in 1653 (Museum ref: MATMM:D.1557)

magpie_mine

Magpie Mine, Sheldon, Derbyshire in 1949; notice the front is still on the engine house (Museum ref: MATMM:P.398)

lynn_willies_in_temple_mine

Dr. Lynn Willies during preparations for the re-opening of Temple Mine, Temple Road, Matlock Bath, Derbyshire 1982 (Museum ref: MATMM:P.95)

in_old_gells_mine

Underground in Old Gell’s spar mine, Godfreyhole, Wirksworth, Derbyshire (Museum ref: MATMM:P.222)

early_underground_trip

Taken on one of PDMHS many field trips, underground at Alderley Edge, Cheshire, circa 1979 (Museum ref: MATMM:P.1733)

dynamite_instructions

Instructions for the use of ‘gelatine-dynamite’, in English and Welsh, produced by Nobel of Glasgow and from a mine in Wales (Museum ref: MATMM:D.167)