Gypsum Mine horses, Fauld

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Date:1900 - 1920 (c.)

Description:Horses used by Peter Ford & Co. at their Gypsum Mine at Fauld, near Tutbury.

Mining at Fauld began in the 19th century. By the 1890s there were two companies mining at Fauld: Peter Ford & Co. and J.C. Staton & Co.

Peter Ford & Sons were in existance by 1881, and by 1883 had built a plaster and cement works at Fauld. The company was taken over by J.C. Staton & Co in 1947.

This photograph is from the collections of Tutbury Museum.

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Working Animals Plaster manufacturing Mining & Quarrying Manufacturing Business, Trade & Industry

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Source: Tutbury Museum

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