Our collection of scanned mine plans is available for search and download. Simply enter your search term in the ‘Search this website’ box at the top right of this page.
The full index of our mining plans is available as an Excel spreadsheet here: CATMHS_Index_v1
These images have a maximum size of 2048px by 2048px in the interest of download speed.
Higher resolution images may be available – contact webmaster@catmhs.org.uk for more information.
CATMHS has a large amount of material relating specifically to the Coniston mines, which has been deposited at the Armitt Museum and Library in Ambleside. Details of this collection is described in this document: Coniston Area Historic Documents. An index of this material can be found in: Coniston Area Historic Document Index
The Armitt Museum in Ambleside also holds some other CATMHS Archive Material. Download the full list of material here: MODES LIST
A cross reference of our BGS Scanned Mine Plans and our Books and the Armitt Museum is available as an Excel spreadsheet here: Cross Reference
We have a large number of scans of documents from the Willie Shaw archive. The documents are in Kendal Museum, but are also stored on the CATMHS website. The index can be downloaded here.
There are also indices for J Belton’s photographs and Dave Blundell’s photographs