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Utilising a wealth of rare and unpublished images from official archives, Cameron and Withey tell the story behind the development of the Honister Mine in the Lake District from the time of the Norman Conquest until today.
Though the exact date that mining at the site begun is unknown, it was undoubtedly in operation shortly after the arrival of William the Conqueror. Slate was initially won by peeling it off the face of Honister Crag in large slabs or digging it out from the ground on hillside beyond the Crag where the slate-rock outcropped. Later, during Elizabethan times, skilled immigrant miners from the Tyrol taught native slate workers how to drive tunnels into the Crag to obtain slate from deeper underground. By the Victorian era operations had expanded considerably with large-scale underground mining under way. The many miles of rail track made the transport of slate much easier and processing sheds to handle the slate rock were constructed at the head of Honister Pass.
In the 1980s the Honister Mine had closed down. The large -scale operation was uneconomic. Honister was much more suited to small-scale slate working with a greater environmental concern. But no one seemed to be prepared to take on such an undertaking. However, in 1995 news broke that the lease had been taken up by Mark Weir, the son of a local hill-farmer, with the intention of working slate again. The extraordinary story of Weir s development of Honister Slate Mine is given in full in this book.
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Alastair Cameron was born and brought up in the slate-working village of Coniston, in the southern part of the Lake District. Since those early days he has travelled the world but has maintained close contacts with the village of Coniston and, in particular, with those who have worked in the industry. He has written extensively on the industrial archaeology of the Lake District fells, in particular about the slate and ore mining industries that are very much part of the history and culture of the area.
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- PublisherAmberley Publishing
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 1445671999
- ISBN 13 9781445671994
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages96
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