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Mr.C
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8 years ago

Bit late, I know but just spotted this in a local Shropshire auction catalogue.
Could be of interest to Shroppy mining buffs, sale is Sat 19/11
https://www.ukauctioneers.com/auction_catalogue.cfm?itemID=20E9CB0FD7D726F5D7E4FECEFF5908EBEA2EA8C8&auction=29E1CA0C&action=7&rangepage=13¤tpage=1&showLots=50&sortBy=lotsort&lotView=list&imagesOnly=N

We inhabit an island made of coal, surrounded by a sea full of fish. How can we go wrong.......

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rufenig
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8 years ago

Watching. :thumbup:

rufenig
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8 years ago

Sold for £240-00 plus commission! ;(
Too rich for me
I just hope that a Snailbeach historian bought it and makes the information available.

rufenig
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8 years ago

Plans of where?

rufenig
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8 years ago

Post a couple of examples and we may be able to identify them.

Mr.C
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8 years ago

"rufenig" wrote:
Sold for £240-00 plus commission! ;(
Too rich for me
I just hope that a Snailbeach historian bought it and makes the information available.

Blinkin' Flip! (or something similar)

We inhabit an island made of coal, surrounded by a sea full of fish. How can we go wrong.......

John Lawson
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8 years ago

Talking of Shropshire mining plans, I remember one of Ivor Brown's mates, who was a leading light in the Shropshire Mines Research Group, telling me that he was going to reprint a load of abandoned Shropshire mine plans and sell them as a reprinted journal in order to raise funds for the group.
Sounds as if you have come across a copy.
Fraid I should remember his name, but at the minute, it completely escapes me.

rufenig
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8 years ago

That may have been Ken Lock.
Sadly no longer with us.

John Lawson
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8 years ago

Thanks,for the Amazon link!
The cover of folio, reminded me that, somewhere in the Lawson, archive I think I have a copy of it.
So I did a trawl, and lol and behold I found the volume.
In the introduction of it, it states, that of the plans were collected by Percy Blight.
Now he was a mining surveyor, and several of the North of England mine plans I have here, are signed by him.
It also goes on to state that the original plans were deposited in the Oswestry public library, and there they were coped and reduced to A4 size, by a Mr T Vaughan, around 1963.
Ivor Brown then republished them in June 1972, under the auspices of the Shropshire Mining Group.