Text full multimedia monochrome

First time here?

Find out more about how The Lecture List works.

Coronavirus situation update

Our lecture organisers may or may not have had time to update their events with cancellation notices. Clearly social gatherings are to be avoided and that includes lectures. STAY AT HOME FOLKS, PLEASE.

Help!

Find out what you can do to keep The Lecture List online

Lead Mining in North-East Wales

Part of the Chester Archaeological Society lecture series


The lead ore was taken by the Romans for smelting at Flint, and pigs of lead produced there were stamped with the inscription Deceangli, the name of the British tribe occupying the area. The seventeenth century witnessed the start of an intensive period of lead mining with much outside investment such as by the London Lead Company and Derbyshire mining entrepreneurs.

New rich veins of ore were discovered and exploited, bringing into the area a large number of skilled miners, particularly from Derbyshire. Many of these stayed, intermarrying with local Welsh families and becoming Welsh-speaking themselves. Their descendants, bearing non-Welsh surnames such as Bagshaw, Bateman, Carrington, Harrison, Hooson, Ingleby, Martin, Nuttall, Oldfield, Redfern, Spencer, and Stealey, are still to be found in the area.


Speaker(s):

Mr Christopher Williams | talks

 

Date and Time:

15 May 2010 at 2:30 pm

Duration:

1 hour 30 minutes

 

Venue:

Grosvenor Museum
27 Grosvenor Street
Chester
CH1 2DD
01244 972109
http://www.chester.gov.uk/main.asp?page=369

More at Grosvenor Museum...

 

Tickets:

cost

Available from:

on the door

Additional Information:

coffee & tea served

Register to tell a friend about this lecture.

Comments

If you would like to comment about this lecture, please register here.



 

Any ad revenue is entirely reinvested into the Lecture List's operating fund