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 Re: Pendle Treacleminers, where are they now?
 Try this link, for a real treacle miner, not just a myth (includes pictures of a shaft and 'Ned' the treacle miner: http://oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/topic...Treacle+Mining Also a little general history about treacle mining in and around Pendle: Pendle (the name means ‘hill’ from the Celtic pen) is a place that has great atmosphere, a broad spreading mound rising to 1, 831 feet at its summit with the old villages of Sadben, Barley, Worston, Downham and Roughlee at its skirts. Sabden, as every northern school person knows, still has its Treacle Mines which, according to Bede, was a source of some income to the manor of Whalley in Anglo-Saxon times. The miners, descendants of the original Celts who first worked the seams in Roman times, are secretive and silent folk, short of stature, dark featured and bearded and they guard the location of both the mines and the rich seams of Sucriferous Negribus jealously. The treacle, caused by fragmentation of the magma mantle and a concentration of the carbons that form the same chain as sugar and glucose, oozes naturally from rocks far underground where it is tapped and collected by miners, many of whose families have lived in the area since mediaeval times. The first granting of rights to extract treacle was made to the Abbot of Whalley by King Ulfric of Mercia in 879 and treacle from Sabden finds mention in the Domesday Book: ‘In ye Saybdin in Pendelle be quaryes of Kodie Muk and Several Mines of Traycle alle in ye Manore of Wallee-value seven groats.’ In the early eighteenth century, Yorkshire Parkin weavers from Sarby Brig, furious at the high prices charged by the Sabden miners, came across Trawden from Calder intent on wrecking the mines, and laid siege to Sabden in what later came to be known as the Battle of ****y’s Medder, when coddy-muck cannons were fired across ****y Mint Clough and twelve miners and twenty one weavers died. In some of the houses in Sabden and Whalley, and in the inn called The Wellsprings in the Nick o’ Pendle above the village, you cab still see, stuck in the east wall, balls of that same coddy-muck.. The shallow drift mines were worked extensively until the importation of cheap Jamaican and American molasses at the turn of the century caused their closure. One of the richer mines has recently been re-opened because of the overseas demand for high quality Sabden treacle and another mine, although not working, is now open as a tourist attraction complete with tea room, toilets and interpretative centre – an ignoble end.  |
Pendle Treacleminers, where are they now? 
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