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Annotated map of Woodhead Leadmine

From 1987 Exhibition

Annotated map of Woodhead leadmine

From 2000 Exhibition

Article on Woodhead Lead Mines, date circa late 1840s

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.

David McMath at the leadmines September 1926

Full view of mine from above road (on board)

— 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 Graveyard

Hand drawing of lazy beds - A way of taming the moorland and used for growing vegetables by those who lived on Higher Row - still visible

Hand-drawing depicting Amy Vernon walking home in the snow (1914)

taken from 1987 Exhibition - Woodhead Leadmines

Lade in front of an adit into mine

Copy from Cathcart album

Last inhabited house, Lead Mines 1939

From Photo Album (Photo_523) and referred to in doc CHG_34.

Mill Row

The last inhabited house at the mine Buildings on extreme right are some remains of the smelter.

Mine across spoil heaps towards Craighit

Mine chimney and flue in snow

Large colour photo

Mine chimney in snow

Large colour photo

Mine chimneys

Mine equipment at Woodhead leadmine

Mine from lade looking down to Mill Row

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,

Tags weather, Woodhead lead mine

Minerals

Samples of Minerals from Woodhead Leadmine

Mr and Mrs Clements at Lead Mines

From Photo Album (Photo_523) and referred to in doc CHG_34.

Newsletter 104

2013 season; Annual General Meeting; Walk to the Leadmines; Catstrand Talk; All the threes - Significant events in Carsphairn from 1723 to 2013; 1913 Carsphairn Show - extract from the Galloway News; World War 1 1914 - 1918

Tags The Show, Woodhead lead mine, WWI

Newsletter 11

Editorial, Opening Times, Rota, Frontispiece by Carol Cathcart; Mary Louisa Cannan – A Carsphairn Childhood 1826 – 32; Notices: Wine and Cheese Party, Sponsored Walk 1990 to Windy Standard; Woodhead Leadmine; Carsphairn School; The Old Bell.

Newsletter 27

Forestry in Carsphairn; Notices: The Annual Walk; The Woodhead Lead Mine by Anna Campbell; Notice: Visit to Dunaskin Visitor Centre; The 100th Anniversary of the Coming of Age of Frederick Adrian Cathcart occurs on 8 August 1994.

Newsletter 29

Update by Hugie Adamson; Notice: Subscriptions; The Woodhead Lead Mine by Anna Campbell; Notices: Committee members, Newsletter binders, Photographic Competition 1995; Extract from Dalmellington Parish Bulletin July 1893; Timespan – the history of Carsphairn.

Newsletter 31

Notice: Annual Walk; From the Heritage Group Chairman; These Boots Were Made For Walking - Annual Walk; Appeal: Rescue Part date; The Woodhead Lead Mine; A Nineteenth Century Character Reference; Polmaddy Settlement from Forestry Enterprise, Castle Douglas; Notices: Items produced by the Heritage Group, Visit to Aviation Museum to see The Spitfire Blue Peter; Obituary: Mrs Agnes Muriel Coxon, nee McMillan.

Tags aviation, Woodhead lead mine

Newsletter 33

Update by Hugie Adamson; Notice: Subscriptions; David McMath died 1925; Chairman’s Report from AGM November 1995; Notice: Newsletter Index; Leadminers from Dunscore?; Notice: Committee Members.

Newsletter 42

Exhibition this year “All About Ewe”; Notice: Wanlockhead; History, Heritage and Nostalgia; Notice: Summer Outing to Black Craig Lead Mine; Births, Marriages & Deaths at Woodhead Leadmine; Notice: Annual Walk; Through the Door – Carsphairn in Poetry.

Tags poetry, Woodhead lead mine

Newsletter 43

Notice: The Annual Walk; The Valley called Barbarusle; Notice: Heritage Group Productions; Ordnance Survey Notebook October 1847; Leadmine Walk at Black Craig; Outing to Woodhead Village and Mine (poem).

Tags poetry, Woodhead lead mine

Newsletter 5

Editorial Comment; Notices: Extraordinary Meeting, Membership Renewals, Heritage Trails, New Building; Incident at the Leadmines; Correspondence; Catalogue; Song request; Remembrance Poppies and Carsphairn; Lament for Brockloch by Lt Col. A. J. Clark-Kennedy; Frontispiece of prosed A-Frame; Committee.

Tags poetry, Woodhead lead mine

Newsletter 64

Visitor survey; We are Survivors (For those born before 1940); East Galloway Sketches; Woodhead Mine in 1888; Notices: AGM, SCAN website; comments from Visitor’s Book.

Newsletter 69

Chairman’s Report on 2004; Precautions in an Emergency; The Mutual Improvement Society, Woodhead Mine, Carsphairn 1849-1850; How good is your language.

Tags clubs & societies, language, Woodhead lead mine

Newsletter 8

Notices: Summer Exhibition, Competition Winners, Request for Information, Rhinns of Kells Walk, Recipe Books, Old Time Dance, AGM and Talk, Membership; Kirkyard Find; Extract from the Dumfries standard 1859- 130 years ago; Farming objects; Excerpt from Ayr Advertiser of July 1839; Saga of “Heather”; Woodhead by Alan Richards; A View of the Upper Ken; Archaeological Information: Kings Cairn (near Brounhills); A-Frame Building Project.

Tags agriculture, hills & lochs & rivers, leisure, poetry, Woodhead lead mine

Newsletter 95

My Mackay Family Roots; Type Cast; Woodhead Dog Cemetery?; The Shiel of Castlemaddie; My Search for the Hope Family (part 2); Recent Local Place Names

Tags place names, Woodhead lead mine

Newspaper clipping, 18 January 1849, Carsphairn - Miners’ Society

Newspaper clipping, Dumfries Standard December 1849. Fatal accident at Woodhead Lead Mine

Old schoolhouse at Woodhead lead mine, 1886

OS extract Parish of Carsphairn, Sept. 1848. Woodhead Lead Mine (copy)

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)

Plan of Woodhead with photos (copy), 4 parts

Remains of school at Woodhead lead mine

Ruin of school at Mine (on board)

School at Leadmines

School outing to Woodhead mine

School outing to Woodhead mine

School outing to Woodhead mine

School outing to Woodhead 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.
Copy of Photo_150

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/-."

Shaft

10" long metal shaft with square ends & bits bolted on loosely, prob. from mine

Tags mining, tools & equipment, Woodhead lead mine

Silver cutlery made of silver from Woodhead Mine

Silver tray made of silver from Woodhead Mine

Smelter area and chimneys (on board)

Spoil at Woodhead mine

Spoil at Woodhead mine

2nd From Left Davy Richardson. Much of the spoil was used to provide hardcore when the A713 was improved.

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.

The spire of Lamloch Free Church

see newsletter number 32

Trip to Woodhead Mine 1988, Mrs McNae sitting on doorstep of cottage she occupied 1930

Trip to Woodhead Mine 1988; Mrs McNae, Mrs Raining (Kate Sykes?) and Willie Dickson

Trip to Woodhead Mine 1988; Willie Dickson, John Hastings and Jimmy Stewart

View from track over smelter and Mill Row

Wanlockhead mine – adit

Woman and Davy Brown at mine

Woodhead Lead Mine

Copy from Cathcart album

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.

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.

Woodhead lead mine from near smelter up to chimneys

Woodhead Lead Mine - flue from smelter

Woodhead lead mine - school and school house (dating to 1886), low row in background

Woodhead lead mine plan and section, 1852 (copy)

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.

Woodhead lead mine, chimney

Woodhead lead mine, chimney from track

Woodhead lead mine, last inhabited house

Woodhead lead mine, low row.

In 1851, 56 people lived in this row of 10 houses.

Woodhead lead mine, remains of school house

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.

Woodhead lead mine, ruins

Woodhead lead mine, ruins of building and chimney

Woodhead lead mine, Section of Woodhead Vein, August 1853 (copy)

Woodhead lead mine, view from the magazine

Woodhead lead mine, view looking towards chimney

Woodhead lead mines – Amended map (OS 1910) with information from 1845 map

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.