Unexpected energy

A letter in yesterday’s Times (from Cliff Lea of the North East Derbyshire Industrial Archaeology Society) alerted me to the fact that there is more to the history of oil & petroleum in Derbyshire than I had ever been aware of.

From 1918 to 1943 oil was produced at the Tibshelf mine, which is only a few miles north of the Riddings mine where a short lived petroleum spring was exploited in the C19th

With the renewed interest in fracking I may yet live to see Dallas-in-Derbyshire

Links
North East Derbyshire Industrial Archaeology Society – NEDIAS
Britain's First Mainland Oilwell At Tibshelf / Hardstoft
Whale oil lubricants
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