visitor group visit to ecton hill staffordshire on xxth odtbrts 200y ecton hill field studies...
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Ecton Hill - Where are we going? ECTON HILL FIELD STUDIES ASSOCIATIONTRANSCRIPT
Visitor group visit to
ECTON HILLStaffordshire
onxxth Odtbrts 200y
ECTON HILL FIELD STUDIES ASSOCIATION
ECTON HILL
• Where are we going?• Why should we go?• How do we get there?
ECTON HILL FIELD STUDIES ASSOCIATION
Ecton Hill - Where are we going?
ECTON HILL FIELD STUDIES ASSOCIATION
Ecton Hill - Where are we going?
ECTON HILL FIELD STUDIES ASSOCIATION
ECTON HILLWhy should we go?
• Industrial heritage• Local History• Social History• Great views
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Ecton Hill – Industrial heritage
• Before the Dukes < 1760• The Dukes – 1760 - 1818• After the Dukes > 1818• Today
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Ecton Hill – Before the Dukes1220 – William de Wrottesley – Ekedon 1575 – Cavendish involved1580 – Burgoyne family buys land
1568 – Company of: Mines Royal Mineral and Battery Works
1622 – Gerard Malnes: “excellant copper ore”1654 –Jeremiah Rhodes (Roades)1665 –Gunpowder – a “first”.1723 – 1760 Extensive developments
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Ecton – The Dukes 1760 – 1818
Extensive development of ore body Discovered rich ore body – 15% Substantial profits – 1786 - £40,000 pa ~£6m paWorked for own accountChatsworth House and Crescent at BuxtonInnovation: Boulton & Watt engine in 1788Copper used in brass and to sheath wooden hullsCopper sent Whiston
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Ecton Hill – The Dukes
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Ecton Hill – The Dukes
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Ecton – Boulton & Watt
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Ecton – Boulton & Watt
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Ecton Hill – After The Dukes 1818 >Date Company Copper Lead Zinc Gross
IncomeProfit
tons tons tons £ £
1826-38 Ecton Copper Co 1,608 114 - 12,050
1839-46 Ecton Mine co 1,283 73 1,186 10,178
1846-51 Various 156 27 - 1,253
1838-50 Burgoyne Mining Co 152 8 20 3,824 -7,257
1851-55 Duke of Devonshire 241 32 - 2,551
1851-57 Ecton Mountain Co 107 87 - 1,984 -3,134
1858-61 Ecton Consolidated 23 19 - 375 +1,638
1862-66 New Ecton Mining 31 20 4.5 481 -4,669
1866-68 Waterbank & Ecton 22 35 - 444 -1,834
1868-74 Ecton, Clayton & W 15 128 - 1,423 -9,704
1883-89 Ecton Company Ltd 150 25 270 1,667 -44,250
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Ecton – Great views
ECTON HILL FIELD STUDIES ASSOCIATION
Ecton – Great views
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Ecton Today
• Bought by Geoff Cox in 1950’s• Used by MIMCU until 2000
(educational courses)• Placed in Trust in 2005• Now educational courses - EHFSA
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Ecton Visit - Programme
PROGRAMMEFOR VISIT BY Visitor Group
TO ECTON HILL ON xx OCDTBRdec 2009
17.30 – 17.45 Visitors park and make way to Ecton Education Centre17.45 sharp Welcome and details of visit17.50 Depart for conducted visit to Ecton Hill: Geology and
Engine House18.50 Return to Education Centre
Underground visit to Salt’s Level in two groups19.45 Return to Education Centre19.50 Depart for Manifold Inn, Hulme End20.00 Supper served in Manifold Inn
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Ecton - Directions
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