I’ve always thought of ironstone bibles as something of a rarity, but two have come up on eBay in 2017.I think they would have been carved by miners for some extra income, although potentially anyone with access to a lump of ironstone could have carved them. This 1889 dated Eston example carries the inscription ‘Forget […]
Many thanks go to Christine Newson for sharing this fantastic piece of family history research, i’ve only included some key points below but her original includes his complete life story. Charles Herbert Steavenson 1867 : Born Crook, Durham, Son of Addison Langhorne Steavenson, Chief Mining Engineer for Bell Brothers. 1883 : Elected North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical […]
Taken from the London Daily News – Thursday 26 May 1892, the cause of the problems in Cleveland are a strike by Durham miners in 1892 which impacted demand for ironstone as the blast furnaces had no coal supply. Famine-Stricken Cleveland. A Tour Underground (from our special correspondent) Skelton Park Ironstone Mine, owned by Messrs. […]
Recording and conserving our industrial heritage doesn’t just mean the bricks and mortar of the mining sites, many local communities only exist due to the ironstone mines, families migrated from all over the country to work in the ironstone mines and in the booming iron and steel industry. Peter Appleton of the Skelton Local History Group has been […]
Many thanks to Stephen Haywood and Graham Haywood for letting me reproduce their fathers memories of Park Pit when it was still working. As a child I remember the miners who worked at Park Pit came from a wide area including such places as Guisborough from where they would walk to work and back each […]