Images from a Built Heritage Assessment of Silverband Mine Brake House and Aerial Ropeway, Dufton Fell, Milburn, Cumbria, March 2022

This collection comprises images from a built heritage assessment of Silverband Mine Brake House and Aerial Ropeway, Milburn, Cumbria, England, NGR NY 6949 3070. This was undertaken by Stantec UK on behalf of the Natural England Moor House National Nature Reserve in March 2022. The Brake House and its associated aerial ropeway were built in 1939 to serve Silverband Mine. Both the aerial ropeway and Brake House form part of a Scheduled Monument and as such are of national importance. The scheduling identifies the site as a rare example of a 20th century aerial ropeway, few of which now survive, and the site is identified as the best surviving example of an aerial ropeway used in a metal-mining context in England. The survey identified that, although the ropeway had been damaged by attempts to salvage and remove it when the mine closed in 1964, and the Brake House had suffered through having lost its roof and having partially collapsed, sufficient evidence of its original form and function survived to be able to interpret the structure and provide an understanding of how it had functioned.