Rainton Meadows

Fleur Miles April 2025 Four of us (Fleur Miles (Leader), Carole Sobkoviak, Derek Risbey andMary Atkinson) set off from Abbey Road at 10:00am on Tuesday 15 April2025 for Rainton Meadows, the Headquarters of Durham Wildlife Trust.The weather was light overcast sky with a temperature of 12oC with nowind. We arrived at Rainton Meadows at 10:30am […]

Brusselton Incline

20th May 2025. Leader JillCunningham.This meet was programmed to co-inside with the 200th anniversary ofthe S and D Railway and12 DTNFC members attended on a warm,sunny afternoon.We walked beside the surviving Engine House and cottages andobserved the raised walling made of the original stone sleepers. Thehistory and mechanics of the stationary steam engine, Incline equipmentand […]

A (VERY) GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO LEADMINING IN TEESDALE

NB: More specialised notes on the geology will follow closer to the event. The following will, I hope,whet the appetite of the non-specialists – for whom there is no excuse not to join us!This year’s geology programme, has been designed around the theme of ‘minerals’ (lead, fluorspar,baryites, iron) putting the spotlight onto the ‘T’- Teesdale […]