Nellie Kirkham’s Field Notes

Nellie Kirkham was a pioneer in the study of mining in the Peak District and an early member of the Society. After her death in 1979, her archives passed to her close friend Doug Nash, and they were scanned in their entirety by the late John Beck. Since John’s death, Mark Noble has made these scans available and kindly agreed that they could be hosted as a collection on the Society’s website. The indexing system Nellie used appeared to relate to the old Ordnance Survey sheet numbers * but it does not appear to have been consistently used. Work on indexing the collection is ongoing and these indices will be added here as and when they are available – all offers of help welcome! The documents are in PDF format and are scans of hand-written notes.

Important!

These files range from 20MB to 180MB, you are advised not to access them unless you have a very fast internet connection (or a great deal of patience!) 

The field notes files are on external storage, a Google Drive account here

  1. VI SW a8 – IX SE h10 25
  2. IX NW – XIV SW
  3. IX SE H10 26 – XV NE H8
  4. XV SW G2 – XVI NE F4
  5. XVI NE F7 – 15Z89
  6. XVI SE A6 31-79
  7. XVI NE F7 – 15Z90
  8. XVI NE G7 – XVI SE A6_30. XVI SW
  9. XVI SE A6 15.1 – XXI NE . XVI SE A11 1-11
  10. XXI NW A5 – XXIII NW A8
  11. XXIII SW D7 – XXVIII NW A12
  12. XXIII SW A7 – XXIII SW D6 (174)
  13. XXIII NW B6 – XXIII NE D9
  14. XVI SE A6 80 – 150
  15. XXVIII NW A12 – XXVIII NE E6
  16. XXVIII NE F4 – XXVIII SE F6
  17. XXVIII SE F9 – XXVIII SE H12
  18. XXIX NW 1 – 72
  19. XXIX NW 80Z100 – 99
  20. XXIX NW 73 – 80Z99
  21. XXIX NW 100 – 198
  22. XXIX NW 199 – 264 – XXIX NW G6
  23. XXIX SW G11. XXX SW. XXXII SE G10
  24. XXXII SE H3. XXXIII SW G4. XXXIII NE & NW
  25. XXXIV NW D9 – XXXIV NW G10
  26. XXXIV SW D11 31-217
  27. XXXIV NW G12 – XXXIV SW B11.14. XXXIV NE D1-
  28. XXXIV SW B11 15 – D11 30
  29. XXXIV SW D11 218 – XXXIV SE G11
  30. XXXVI NE SE-NW – XXXIX NW A1- XL NW A4 XLII 20MB
    The card index

Index of 6 inch OS maps of Derbyshire 1842-1952
These links are to the National Library of Scotland map archive. Below are direct links to most of the maps referenced in the diaries.