Please quote Mining List No 2
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THE COAL FIELDS OF SCOTLAND by Robert W Dron 1921 135 [pp, 18 plates. PHOTOCOPY. £1.00
COPPER MOUNTAIN by John Rowlands 1966 200 pp illus, SB. Probably the best account of the Parys mountain in Anglesey. New SB £6.99
THE RIVER RAN RED / A History of the Golden Valley, Wick by Carolyn A Williams 2010 91 pp, many colour photos. Famous iron mines in south Gloucestershire. SB New £9.99
TWENTY YEARS DOWN THE MINES by Ian Terris 2001 128 pp. Coal mining in Scotland, Cardowan, Rothes, and Seafield. SB New £6.99
THE MINE WORKERS by Robert Duncan 2005 280 pp, illus. First substancial history of mineworkers in Scotland. SB NEW £14.99
PEMBROKESHIRE / THE FORGOTTEN COALFIELD by M R Connop-Price 2004 256 pp, illus. Mining from the 13th C until 1951. New SB £17.95
COLLIERIES OF SOMERSET & BRISTOL by John Cornwell 2001 112 pp, mainly illus with minimal text. My sort of book. This is a follow up to his book on the Collieries of South Wales by John Cornwell it contains 85 photographs of previously unrecorded scenes of surface and underground taken at 13 pits post-nationalisation in 1947. The underground photos were taken by Nigel Booth between 1960 -1961. The collieries featured include, Bromley (near Pensford), Braysdown - Radstock, Camerton - Charmborough, Coal Pit Heath - Glos, Harry Stoke - Stoke Gifford, Kilmersdon - Radstock, New Rock / Mendip - Stratton on Foss, Norton Hill - Midsomer Norton, Marsh Lane Drift - Farrington Gurney, Old Mills - Paulton, Pensford, Writhlington - Radstock HB DW new £17.99
VICTORIAN SLATE MINING by Ivor Wynne Jones 2003 142 pp, many photos. A Home Office public inquiry into the hazards of slate mining was held in Blaenau Ffestiniog during 1893-4. The basis of this book is the resulting damning report to Parliament which provided an accurate survey of the domestic and working conditions of the Victorian mining community. It incorporates many photographs taken at the time including underground shots taken by pioneering photographer J C Burrow. HB DW New £14.95
DINORWIC / The Llanberis Slate Quarry 1780-1969 by Reg Chambers Jones 2006 176 pp, many photos. The Dinorwic Quarry at Llanberis, now the home of the National Slate Museum and the Electric Mountain Visitor Centre, was once one of the largest slate quarries in the world. Today the scars of the terraces on the side of Elidir Fach and Elidir Fawr, along with the tips of slate waste, are silent testimony to the industrialisation of this beautiful north Wales valley. The quarry was once the major source of income for many communities, not only in the shadow of the mountain itself, but as far away as the east coast of the Isle of Anglesey from where many workmen travelled by boat and train every weekend to live in the spartan conditions of the quarry barracks.
Slate quarrymen were a special breed of highly skilled workers who laboured in what would now been seen as appalling conditions in the face of the prevailing elements, forever running the risk of death, ill-health and serious injury.
In this book, written nearly forty years after the closure of Dinorwic, the author has, for the first time, painted a portrait of the quarry itself, the men who worked there (be they managers, quarrymen or labourers) and the communities in which they lived.
Many of the photographs have never previously been published and should be of interest to not only students of industrial archaeology but also to the former slate quarry workers and their families as well as to local and family historians. The section on transport will have a particular appeal to those interested in industrial railways. HB DW New £16.00 [current price £18.99]
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