Hi All, For those of you interested in lead mining in Weardale and in other areas of the North Pennines, I took some photographs last week in Rookhope Valley. (Note that Rookhope is not pronounced Rook-hope: the second syllable is somewhere between 'ooop' and 'up', and very short! - can someone explain this better?) If you are interested, start by going to 'StreetMap': http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=387640&y=543480&z=5&sv=385000,545000&st=4&ar=Y&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf, -note it is a very long URL. Or go to http://www.streetmap.co.uk/ and type in 'Allenheads'. On this map you can see, in the south-west square (bottom left) the sources of the Rivers Tyne, Tees and Wear - leading to Tynedale, Teesdale and Weardale. In the middle of the centre square of this map is Allenheads which is in Northumberland. In that area the county boundary follows the watershed between Weardale and Tynedale. The Rookhope Burn rises just on the border between Northumberland and Durham and flows south-east and then south to join the River Wear at Eastgate. I took some photographs when I was travelling south-eastwards along the road that runs parallel with the Rookhope Burn. As far as I know there were 2 mines working until quite recently in the Rookhope Valley. One has now been completely demolished, which is one of the reasons I stopped to take some photographs of the last one still standing, although not in use. One was called Grove Rake and the other Wolf Cleugh? I believe the photographs I have taken were of Grove Rake - can anyone clarify that for me? I have put them, hastily, online at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rprobert/index.htm - follow the links to Photographs, Durham, Rookhope. If anyone wants a copy of the original photos (about 200-250Mb each), let me know and I'll send them to you, but please be specific which ones you would like: I don't have broadband! I also have some photographs looking north, down towards Allenheads, where there was a lead mine from the early 1800s. It was still open until some time in the 1980s, but then run by British Steel mining for fluorspar. These are on the same website, but follow the links to Northumberland and Allenheads. Hope this helps someone, Rosemary, Northumberland UK ............................................................ My Family History - mostly from England and Scotland And Photographs from the North of England http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rprobert/index.htm ............................................................