Graham Owens has already mentioned the latest issue of the Northern Mine Research Society's British Mining, which is No.71. Memoirs 2002. List members may be interested to know the full range of topics covered:-
"St. Elvis Mine, Solva, Pembrokeshire: Another Elizabethan Tetrahedrite Occurrence?" by J.S. Mason and R.E. Bevins
"On The Mortality of Lead Miners" by A.F. Mills and I.F. Mills
"Snailbeach Mine in the 1760's" by A. Cuckson
"The Mechanism of Hushing as Used in the Northern Pennines" by R.A. Fairbairn
"Slagged Refractory Brickwork From Derwent Smelting Mill" by W.K. Pirt
"A Survey of the Area Around Jamie Mine, Sun Side Allotment Appletreewick, North Yorkshire" by M. Roe and A. Davis
"Two Centuries of a Mining Landscape: Archaeological Survey and Watching Brief at Goyt's Moss Colliery and Axe Edge Moor, High Peak, Derbyshire" by K. Aitchison, A. Badcock and R. O'Neill
A5 100 pp., 26 photo's, 25 figs. £10.00 + £0.75 p.&p.
Available from NMRS Publications, 38 Main Street, Sutton in Craven, KEIGHLEY, Yorkshire, BD20 7HD.
The next issue - The Mines of Yorkshire, by Mike Gill and Roger Burt will be available around the end of May.
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