Ann HUMPHRIS (or HUMPHRIES) living in East Dean 1851 (General)

by David Priddis, Sunday, June 13, 2010, 22:17 (5351 days ago) @ Adrian Green

Adrian,

The Blakeney Hill Stone Mine was indeed also locally called "Gibraltar", I gather the name Gibraltar also appears on the Deeds of of the Blakeney Hill Chapel.

After I "re-discovered" this mine in 1992 from which a silver grey stone was mined, I wrote a long article which was published in the New Regard (Journal of the FoD Local History Society) Number 10, 1995 ASBN 0950 - 8236.

This also contains photographs of mine owners and of some of the miners in the late 1920's and gives some of the mine history. It contains the reference to some files at the PRO in Kew which you may also ind to be of interest.

I hope you can locate the article and that it is of interest.

David Priddis