2 new books arrived this week and are well worth having are available from myself at www.moorebooks.co.uk and other outlets
Mike
Barrow Salt, Brian Cubbon, HB, DJ, 140pp, 17 plates, 13 Text figs £18.00 P&P

(Publishers details) There are substantial deposits of Rock Salt deep beneath Walney Island, Barow-in-Furness, this account tells for the first time something of the attempts made during the late 1890's and early 1900's to establish a Salt Industry there. The Industry was short lived , but was well founded, involving a number of prominent local businessmen. The enterprise is a significant part of Barrows Industrial Heritage.

The Whitehaven Colliery through Time - Alan W. Routledge, sb, 165 x 235, 96pp £14.99 + P&P

(publishers info) Coal was the very bedrock on which the town of Whitehaven was built, the trade in coal with Dublin starting after the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Shipping ever increasing quantities of coal to Ireland brought another industry to the town – shipbuilding. In the seventeenth century, the Whitehaven Pottery began, local coal firing the kilns. Coal mining fathered several more local industries, including chemicals, iron ore smelting, glass bottle making, foundries, engineering and even the railways made use of phenomenal quantities of coal.
The winning of coal was a costly business in terms of lives lost, with several disasters occurring in the Whitehaven Colliery. Women and young children were employed in the mines, working for twelve hours or more a day. Now, there are few physical traces left of the Whitehaven Colliery: some sites have become housing estates and others have been returned to grass. In this book, Alan W. Routledge looks at the history of the Whitehaven Colliery.

Both books work out at more than 10p a page. What does photocopying cost? A penny a page?

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Sorry to say it but Routledge's book, interesting though some of the photographs are, is mainly a load of rubbish. It repeats all of the errors, myths and inventions about the colliery from previous publications then adds a few more.

Both books work out at more than 10p a page. What does photocopying cost? A penny a page?

Why do you feel that you always have to make these incredibly tedious interjections? Here's an idea if you can't say anything original or constructive why don't you keep your boring and predictable observations to yourself.

Both books work out at more than 10p a page. What does photocopying cost? A penny a page?

Why do you feel that you always have to make these incredibly tedious interjections? Here's an idea if you can't say anything original or constructive why don't you keep your boring and predictable observations to yourself.

He never seems to miss an opportunity to have a dig at Mike (I don't know why). He has been warned by Simon in the past. Whatever grip he has it is about time he gave it up!

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Both books work out at more than 10p a page. What does photocopying cost? A penny a page?

Why do you feel that you always have to make these incredibly tedious interjections? Here's an idea if you can't say anything original or constructive why don't you keep your boring and predictable observations to yourself.

He never seems to miss an opportunity to have a dig at Mike (I don't know why). He has been warned by Simon in the past. Whatever grip he has it is about time he gave it up!

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I think you have missed the point. Books are too expensive. They can be reproduced much cheaper.

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Both books work out at more than 10p a page. What does photocopying cost? A penny a page?

Why do you feel that you always have to make these incredibly tedious interjections? Here's an idea if you can't say anything original or constructive why don't you keep your boring and predictable observations to yourself.

Another thought, how about scanning it in, burning to a DVD. A DVD only costs 25p.

This is not a dig against MM, he is a fine fellow ;D

He never seems to miss an opportunity to have a dig at Mike (I don't know why). He has been warned by Simon in the past. Whatever grip he has it is about time he gave it up!

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I think you have missed the point. Books are too expensive. They can be reproduced much cheaper.

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Are books too expensive?
You aren't paying for the printing alone. What about the writer whose livelihood it may well be?
Even for a copy of a long out of print AND copyright what about the time of the person doing the scanning?

You seem happy to steal the content of a book and sell it for the cost of the medium it is supplied on and f**k the people who spent time and effort creating it. A poor attitude and little different to the lowlife who steal ropes, rigging and artefacts from mines.

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Are books too expensive?
You aren't paying for the printing alone. What about the writer whose livelihood it may well be?
Even for a copy of a long out of print AND copyright what about the time of the person doing the scanning?

You seem happy to steal the content of a book and sell it for the cost of the medium it is supplied on and f**k the people who spent time and effort creating it. A poor attitude and little different to the lowlife who steal ropes, rigging and artefacts from mines.

I think the writer should get a real job, say in a factory make something, and not make money out of a hobby.

I hope someone will review these books as I seem be be getting off topic.

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