There must of been Coal Mining somewhere in Lincolnshire' from the Grantham Cemetery Register SOAR Hannah Buried 27 Mar 1909 Age 18 Female Died New Somerby Father Occ. Coal Miner Burial Spot 13 II 20 Bill Stratton ----- Original Message ----- From: "elaine westaway" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2014 7:00 AM Subject: Re: [LIN] Mining in Lincolnshire > Dear Kate > > Thank you for that info, but you are both right and wrong, there was a > mine shaft sunk at Woodhall as it then was in 1821 by John Parkinson in an > attempt to find coal as most of what was used in Lincolnshire came from > the Pennines at that time, but none was found, all that was found was a > conduit of salty water, following an accident during some work with > explosives in the mine and a resulting fatality the mine shaft was closed > and wooden planks laid over the top, but with a couple of years the mine > shaft was full of the salty water and it was bubbling up over the top, it > as then noticed that cattle who had drunk from the water where cured of > some ailments and when the local lord of the manor tried some and found it > help with his gout, he initially built a small bath house over the spring > and later turned it into a spa hence the former village of Woodhall became > the town of Woodhall spa. so the reason that the town has mine workings in > it's sign is that > without the ill-fated attempt at mining there would have been no spa town.

Oh, Aye, there was mining for coal in Lincolnshire. See: http://mininghistory.thehumanjourney.net/edu/EastMidlandsIntro.shtml Lou ----- Original Message ----- From: "bill stratton" <[email protected]> To: "elaine westaway" <[email protected]>, [email protected] Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 6:49:33 AM Subject: Re: [LIN] Mining in Lincolnshire There must of been Coal Mining somewhere in Lincolnshire' from the Grantham Cemetery Register SOAR Hannah Buried 27 Mar 1909 Age 18 Female Died New Somerby Father Occ. Coal Miner Burial Spot 13 II 20 Bill Stratton ----- Original Message ----- From: "elaine westaway" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2014 7:00 AM Subject: Re: [LIN] Mining in Lincolnshire > Dear Kate > > Thank you for that info, but you are both right and wrong, there was a > mine shaft sunk at Woodhall as it then was in 1821 by John Parkinson in an > attempt to find coal as most of what was used in Lincolnshire came from > the Pennines at that time, but none was found, all that was found was a > conduit of salty water, following an accident during some work with > explosives in the mine and a resulting fatality the mine shaft was closed > and wooden planks laid over the top, but with a couple of years the mine > shaft was full of the salty water and it was bubbling up over the top, it > as then noticed that cattle who had drunk from the water where cured of > some ailments and when the local lord of the manor tried some and found it > help with his gout, he initially built a small bath house over the spring > and later turned it into a spa hence the former village of Woodhall became > the town of Woodhall spa. so the reason that the town has mine workings in > it's sign is that > without the ill-fated attempt at mining there would have been no spa town. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message