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Woodhead Mines
Copy from Cathcart album used in exhibition. View taken from road leading into it. This was taken in the 1890s. As early as then the roofs of the smelters were damaged.
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Woodhead Mine 1890s
From the road to the mine this sepia photo shows the layout of the mine. The nearest buildings are the smelter houses and assay office with the water wheel behind. Then the waste heaps, or byngs, with the schoolhouse just visible behind the centre of the largest one. Then come two rows of miner's cottage uphill from the schoolhouse with the magazine a very small white building in isolation behind them and finally Office Row behind the row of trees at the top. The mine manager's house, a smithy etc were among these buildings. Lead ceased to be mined in 1873 and by the 1890s the population of the community had shrunk to just sixteen. See Heritage Trail 3Tags Woodhead lead mine -
Schoolhouse / Shooting Lodge at Woodhead Mine
Taken in 1886 this sepia photo shows the schoolhouse turned into a shooting lodge after the closure of the leadmine at Woodhead in 1873. It was built as the school in 1843 for the children of the miners. All that remains of the building now is the facade. See Heritage Trail no 3.
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Woodhead Lead Mine
This view shows the school, miners rows and the office row rightat the top of Woodhead Mine. Lead was mined here from 1840 to 1873. During the late1840's over 300 people lived in the village. When this black and white photo was taken the mine was falling into dereliction.Tags Woodhead lead mine -
Woodhead Lead Mine
A contemporary coloured photograph of what is left of the leadmine which had a working life from 1839 to 1873. During that time there were 50 houses, a school and a store. At the height of the mining operation in the late 1840's a population of over 300 people lived here - the remains of their occupation lies all around. See Heritage Trail 3.Tags Woodhead lead mine -
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Spoil at Woodhead mine
2nd From Left Davy Richardson. Much of the spoil was used to provide hardcore when the A713 was improved.Tags Woodhead lead mine -
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Selections from Robert Jamieson’s diary
Selections from Robert Jamieson’s diary when he returned to Scotland arriving in London in 1856. In 1855 he married Joanna Black of Stranraer and they returned to Australia in 1856.
"Friday, 23rd March 1855
Went up to Woodhead lead mines to see them smelting, got some of the lead gave them 1/-."Tags Woodhead lead mine -
The Pascoe family.
The boy aged about twelve here would have been a lead washer at the lead mines. This photo was taken in the mid 1870’s.Tags Woodhead lead mine -
Mill Row
The last inhabited house at the mine Buildings on extreme right are some remains of the smelter.Tags Woodhead lead mine -
Woodhead lead mine, low row.
In 1851, 56 people lived in this row of 10 houses.Tags Woodhead lead mine -
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Woodhead lead mine, remains of top row.
All that remains today of the top row of houses where Charles Wilson, the overseer and late manager of the mine spent so much of his life. This row has been occupied within living memory.Tags Woodhead lead mine -
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Big room at schoolhouse, Woodhead lead mine
This photograph shows the interior of the schoolhouse, presumably the living room. The photograph was probably taken in the 1880’s long after the school was closed. -
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Hand drawing - Mill Row
— see map of the mine. The smelterers lived in this row near the smelter. The five house row is the only building left in tact at the mine and is currently used as a barn When Kate Hainey looked into the building on a visit in the 1980s she was sorry to see agricultural machinery where the table had been in her cottage. See Seeking the GraveyardTags Woodhead lead mine -
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Woodhead Lead Mine, Carsphairn No 10
Postcard published by James Hyslop
From Photo Album (Photo_523) and referred to in documents CHG_34 and CHG_64.Tags Woodhead lead mine -
Last inhabited house, Lead Mines 1939
From Photo Album (Photo_523) and referred to in doc CHG_34.Tags Woodhead lead mine -
Mr and Mrs Clements at Lead Mines
From Photo Album (Photo_523) and referred to in doc CHG_34.Tags Woodhead lead mine -
Hand-drawing depicting Amy Vernon walking home in the snow (1914)
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Plan of Woodhead including portions of the adjacent farms in the Parish of Carsphairn
Property of the Honourable Mrs MacAdam Cathcart of Craigengillan. Surveyed by A E Thomson, Ayr 1838. Scanned for CHG by (Dumfries Archival Mapping Project)Tags Woodhead lead mine -
Woodhead Leadmines - looking down toward the Smelters Houses
Woodhead Leadmines - looking down toward the Smelters Houses - guided walk by David Brown 1980'sTags Woodhead lead mine -
Woodhead Leadmines - side of School Building
Woodhead Leadmines - side of School Building - guided walk by David Brown 1980's -
Woodhead Leadmines - gable end of Low Row
Woodhead Leadmines - gable end of Low Row - the only two storey property - guided walk by David Brown 1980'sTags Woodhead lead mine -
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Woodhead Leadmine site - near adit at top across to Office Row
Woodhead Leadmine site - near adit at top across to Office RowTags Woodhead lead mine -
Woodhead Leadmine site - above track to top of mine across to Bow
Woodhead Leadmine site - above track to top of mine across to BowTags Woodhead lead mine -
Woodhead Leadmine site - back of smelter with flues
Woodhead Leadmine site - back of smelter with fluesTags Woodhead lead mine -
Woodhead Leadmine site - air shaft over smelter, Mill Row to Carsphairn
Woodhead Leadmine site - air shaft over smelter, Mill Row to CarsphairnTags Woodhead lead mine -
Woodhead Leadmine site - from above Office Row on track up to Woodhead Farm
Woodhead Leadmine site - from above Office Row on track up to Woodhead FarmTags Woodhead lead mine -
Woodhead Leadmine site - from spoil heap area up to Office Row
Woodhead Leadmine site - from spoil heap area up to Office RowTags Woodhead lead mine -
Woodhead Leadmine site - above chimneys over smelter house
Woodhead Leadmine site - above chimneys over smelter houseTags Woodhead lead mine -
Woodhead Leadmine site - two air shafts, school and office row
Woodhead Leadmine site - two air shafts, school and office rowTags Woodhead lead mine -
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Woodhead Leadmine Census 1841-1861
The censuses for the leadmine for this period have been extensively examined by Megan Hastie whose forebears lived and worked there.
She has gone through each of the three censuses and picked out the Hasties, Whitfields, Mitchells, McDonalds, Marrs, Gladstones and Bones and established relationships between many of them.
If you have an ancestor who might have lived at the Woodhead mine do go through this search. Their name is quite likely to be here.Tags Woodhead lead mine -
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Mine office on Office Row
The house at the top of the mines. This was taken about 1959. Near the trees were some gardens which some remember having flowers and vegetables planted in them, -
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