Joseph Robinson & Co. Ltd

The company that restarted mining at Barrowmouth in 1888, twenty years after the earlier workings closed, driving new adits and building the inclined plane and steam winch that took the gypsum up to the cliff top for processing at Lingydale. It is returned against the mine in the official Lists of Mines through the 1890s and 1900s.

Mines operated

MineRegionYears
Barrowmouth Gypsum and Alabaster Mine Cumbria 1888–1908
Boaterby Mine Cumbria 1885–1911

Record created: 11 September 2026 · Last researched: 11 September 2026