THE ROMAN GOLD MINES AT DOLAUCOTHI by Dr G D B Jones anf Dr PR Lewis 1971 20 pp, 14 illus (maps, photos etc), location map. Published as Carmarthen county Museum No 1 SB £5.00
THE CAVES AND MINES OF ANGLESEY by Tony Oldham January 2006 ix + 57 pp, illus, surveys, 3 pages of colour photos. Anglesey is overshadowed by the great Parys Mountain copper mine. This book describes many of the smaller mines including the long forgotten coal mines at Berw. Usual gazetteer style: name, NGR description and references. SB £7.50
DISCOVER THE BRONZE AGE AT GREAT ORME MINES 2004 23 pp in full colour. With passages so small they must have been worked by children. SB £3.00
COAL MINES AND MINERS by Miles Tomalin 1960 79 pp, numerous illus, HB DW. A good all round introduction to coal mining. £10.00
THE DISAPPEARING SCOTTISH COAL INDUSTRY / A Personal View of some aspects of Scotland’s Coal industry since Nationalisation by Robert S Halliday 1990 199 pp, 6 tables, 7 diagrams. HB £15.00
A SHORT HISTORY OF THE SCOTTISH COAL INDUSTRY. Published by the National Coal Board Scottish Division 1st impression 1958 116 pp, colour frontis, 24 plates, 21 figs. HB £15.00
THIS IS MY KINGDOM by Charles Brister with a forward by an unknown miner 1972 236 pp, illus. The reminisces of a Scottish miner. HB £15.95
A MINER’S LASS, memories by Mary Docherty 1992 281 pp, illus. The story of a Fife miner black listed in 1921. HB £15.00
BLAWEARIE or Ming life in the Lothians forty years ago [ 1847?] by Peter M’Neill 1887 190 pp, SB. Lacks spine. Binding is very loose and cover grubby. A rare item, well worth the cost of rebinding. £25.00
GEOLOGY / Minerals, Mines and Soils of IRELAND in reference to the Amelioration and Industrial Prosperity of the Country by Joseph Holdsworth Esq MGSF & c. 1857 240 pp, couple of steel engravings. I have listed 25 references to mining. HB some wear at top and bottom of the spine. Original publishers in embossed red cloth. £110.00
THE GEOLOGY OF NORTHERN SKYE by F W Anderson and K C Dunham 1966 216 pp, illus. Essential for anybody studying the mines and mineralogy of Skye. SB, front cover creased, otherwise, good condition. £10.00
Cutting coal in my spare time.