Wakebridge mine engine house has lost its upper storey, but its original use for a beam engine is obvious because of the 5 ft-thick end wall for beam support.

It had two shafts: a drawing shaft of 660 feet and a climbing shaft.

The engine shaft was 660 ft deep, worked by E. M. Wass & Co, 1857.

The engine was removed to either Bonsall or Portaway Mine. Traces of slag are to be found amongst the debris of the old crushing floor.

There was smelting here in 1580.

White’s 1857 Directory of Derbyshire has an entry for Crich which mentions Wakebridge mine –

CRICH CLIFF mines, known by the names of Bacchus’ Pipe, Glory, Pearson’s Venture, and Wakebridge, with several others in the neighbourhood, have been the most productive of any in the county for the last 40 years. One-ninth of the produce is given to the lords of the manor; W. E. Nightingale, Esq. receives one-sixth of the ore raised at Wakebridge mine, as lessor, Messrs. Wass and Co. are the lessees; this mine is at present standing, Crich has long been noted for its mines, for we find, in the time of the Norman survey, Leuric and Levenot held a lead mine at Crice. Calamine is got at Bonsall, and in the neighbourhood, but spelter having superseded it, the mines are very little worked. The Ridgway Sough, from Crich Cliff to the river Derwent, clears the Crich Cliff mines. Meerbrook Sough, 1 mile N. from Whatstandwell bridge, runs in a westerly direction, towards the rich mining field near the town of Wirksworth. It was commenced in 1772, ………..