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- Registrar of births, marriages, deaths, and mine manager."e is no.recbrd of activity there in the .19th.century. THE BOULDER.FLINT COMPANY The. reopening of a copper mine in the early 20th century was a result of the mining of chiert, a siliceous stone resembling flint. This was apparently discovered by one J T Ward in Arkengarthdale about 1895. He sent samples to the Potteries where it is used as a raw material in the 14 manufacture of porcelain. Ward's samples interested the firm of Taylor &.Co., potters' merchants based on Dieppe in Normandy, who sent W S Taylor and J S Wagstaff from.Staffordshire to Swaledale.to establish the.Boulder Flint. Company in about .1904. Mr Ward, who made the discovery, was employed as foreman. Both Taylor and Wagstaff took iip residence in Reeth, which is within.four miles of the Arkehgarthdale chert mine, and not more than ten miles from Billy Bank, where they opened another chert mine. The partly blocked opening of this mine is.still visible by the side of the footpath through Billy Bank Wood, much higher up the bank than the copper mine and considerably nearer.to the bridge. up the bank than the copper mine and considerably nearer.to the bridge. This appears not to'have been .successful; as.it only penetrates a.few yards into the hillside. "
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