hello list, i am john dale currently still working for WBB, a plastic clay
and kaolin mining company with sites around the world but based in Devon UK.
I was originally with the NCB as a Mine Surveyor at Horden Colliery, Durham
from 1956 to 65. I found your site when searching for "ball clay" and
surprised to see in the April archives questions about the continued
exisitence of clay mining in the Kingsteignton area. I am in my leisure time
involved with establishing The Ball Clay Heritage Society which will seek to
further public knowledge of the history and heritage of clay production,
transport and use, particularly in relation to the ball clays of Devon and
Dorset. I want to include in our proposed museum a history of clay mining
and would be glad of any information or direction pointing the group can
give me, especially with relation to underground clay mines.
thanks in anticipation. john dale
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