A very busy few weeks and some great research online has revealed some excellent links below. Plenty to follow up on over the winter! I must admit, when I started out on this I didn't think there would be much to go on, but there's a wealth of information if you look hard enough.
I scoured eBay and found a great publication, and also a signed first edition. It was the book 'The Gunpowder Mills of Cumbria' by Ian Tyler (2002). It was up for sale at £1! I put my max bid at £12 and just left it at that. There was nobody else watching it and I thought it was mine. A sudden interest and an automatic bid grabbed it for £12.80. BLAST!!
Not all lost though, I managed to get a hardback copy, new condition, a reprint in 2010. I'm going to track down Ian Tyler and get him to sign it, after I've interviewed him. I can't tell you how much it cost me as my wife may read this blog!
It was a bad time in Cumbrian history to be a Juniper. Had they been able to, they would have all left the county.
I now need to do a serious amount of reading before I venture out and examine some of these old sites. There are people to track down, doors to knock on and letters to write!
http://www.geog.port.ac.uk/webmap/thelakes/html/topics/gunmillf.htm
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/professional/research/landscapes-and-areas/protected-landscapes/other-projects/cumbrian-gunpowder/
http://www.matthewpemmott.co.uk/2010/07/sedgwick-gunpowder-works-nr-sedgwick.html
http://www.cumbria-industries.org.uk/gunpowder.htm
http://csweb.bournemouth.ac.uk/aip/gaz2001/e/nwest/e162001.pdf
http://www.royalgunpowdermills.com/GEHG/GMSGNewsletter11_webp.pdf
http://www.bbc.co.uk/legacies/work/england/cumbria/
http://www.treesforlife.org.uk/tfl.juniper.html
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