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Captain Scarlet
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17 years ago

Hi All,
Does anyone know what became of - Hilary Bird Mining Facsimiles ?

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Moorebooks
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17 years ago

Yes

She and Dick sold their remaining stock to myself - most of the volumes were limited editions.

I do however have an original copy of Burrows work

Mike

Gwyn
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17 years ago

As a matter of idle speculation, how much is Burrow? :blink:

carnkie
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17 years ago

"Gwyn" wrote:
As a matter of idle speculation, how much is Burrow? :blink:

Purely in the spirit of idle speculation think £400 and start counting. 😞

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Roy Morton
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17 years ago

Bradford Barton did a re print in 1965 and I picked one up in Redruth in 1975 for £3.50 I havn't got a clue what they are worth.
I do remember seeing an real one in the original presentation box lined with tissue paper. It looked like a very posh wedding album, and likewise, had tissue paper leaves between each picture - They were real photographic prints, not ink press printed - and the fellow told us he had been left this by his father and was it worth anything? Alan Buckley who was with me at the time, was dumb struck and, like myself, salivating. We had to tell him the truth. Just holding it was worth £400.
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carnkie
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17 years ago

Trying to imagine Allen dumbstruck 😉 Just as an aside I bought a copy of Arthur G Langdons 'Old Cornish Crosses' (1896) some time ago and inside there were a couple of loose photos, signed by Burrow. He obviously knew Langdon. How they survived in the book this length of time is beyond me.

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carnkie
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17 years ago

On reflection I think I would have ben dumb struck as well.

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Roy Morton
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17 years ago

Burrow took a lot of pictures of Dolcoath on the surface, mostly in the vicinity of the Counthouse and the shafts close by namely Old and New Sump Shafts. I came accross 8 Burrow postcards amongst a load of other pictures being stored in a Tesco carrier bag. Although the guy wouldn't sell them I did manage to borrow and copy them. I'll put one on the Dolcoath album. I recently met his daughter when I was giving a talk at a WI meeting.She lives somewhere near Newlyn east I believe.

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JonK
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17 years ago

For information the Bradford Barton book of Burrow's underground photographs which is titled "Historic Cornish Mining Scenes Underground" is avilable on the abe books second hand books site for about £5 - £7. I believe that this book may still be in print with another publisher.

RPJ
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14 years ago

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An old thread I happened across.

I concur with comments upthread that seeing an original copy of Burrow's book is quite an experience: it really is a sumptious volume.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodburytype for an explanation. The quality achievable by this process is wondeful and the published images fall only very slightly short of photographic prints.

One factor that contributes to the qulaity of the published images is that Burrow used large glass negatives (whether whole or half plate I do not know) with the result that the published images, rather than being enlargements, are actually reductions and thus grain is simply invisible.

rhychydwr
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14 years ago

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At a recent WMS meet:

Chris [?] Williams, talked about Burrow’s book, Amongst Mines and Miners. He bought his copy years ago for £50. Latest abebooks price £3k. He showed a selection of photos from the book. Some of the photos were taken by “limelight”. This is burning O2 and H in a block of limestone. Very popular in Victorian theatres, hence “In the limelight”.

Cutting coal in my spare time.

spitfire
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14 years ago

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Burrow has always and quite rightly been associated with photos of Cornish Mines. What is not generally known is that he did quite a lot of work in the South Wales collieries

spitfire

Peter Burgess
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14 years ago

#13

South Gloucestershire coal field, north of Bristol. An excellent talk at NAMHO last year all about it!

JohnnearCfon
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14 years ago

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"spitfire" wrote:
Burrow has always and quite rightly been associated with photos of Cornish Mines. What is not generally known is that he did quite a lot of work in the South Wales collieries

IIRC he took some underground in Blaenau too.