Min-Hist Biblio
Tower Story to be made into a film. Western Mail 1 July 2000 p 1.
Tower Colliery at Hirwaun, South Wales.
Tower Colliery: The Movie with Helen Mirren as Anne Clwyd by Nick
Dermody. Western Mail 4 July 2000 p 9, photo. Also suggests, Robbie
Coltrane as Tyrone O’Sullivan and Rowan Atkinson as John Redwood.
The Freeminers Debate / Minister promises full investigation. Forest
and Wye Valley Review 7 July 2000. p 7. Energy Minister Helen Liddell
meets Freeminers at the Hayner Bailey Mine.
Review into Rights of the Freeminer by Kate Nelmes. The Citizen June
30, 2000 p 4.
Westgate at Westminster by Nick Speed Western Mail 12 July 2000 p 11.
Ann puts her name forward. Ann Clwyd is keen to act herself in the
Tower Colliery movie.
Devis Hole Mine Caves and Crackpot Cave by Iain Simpson. Red Rose Cave
& Pothole Club Newsletter Vol 37 No 2 July 2000 pp 2-3. Trip report.
An Excursion to Harptree Combe and Mines by Vince Simmonds. Belfry
Bulletin Vol 51 No 1 [No 506] March 2000 pp 12 - 14 survey.
Description and survey of 6 mines in Somerset.
Stock’s House Shaft - A Winter’s Tale by Tony Jarratt. Belfry Bulletin
Vol 51 No 1 March [No 506] 2000 pp 31-35. Continues from BB Nos 502,
504, 505.
Stock’s House Shaft - The Spring Offensive by Tony Jarratt. Belfry
Bulletin Vol 51 No 3 June [No 507] 2000 pp 8-12, survey illus..
Continues from BB Nos 502, 504-506. Continuing epic of cavers digging a
lead mine in the belief that they will find a cave. p 14 has an
interesting advert from the Sherborne Mercury 1816. To be sold by
auction by Mr Bennett, on the premises, at Priddy Minery, 3 steam
engines and a load of tackle in 15 lots..
Sidmouth Adit [Devon] by Peter Glanvill. Belfry Bulletin Vol 51 No 3
June [No 507] 2000 p 34 two photos. Appears unexplored.
Remaining Headgears [120] by Adrian Pearce. Chelsea Spelæological
Society Newsletter Vol 42 No 7 July 2000 pp 85-86. Hard copy at last!
Contributed by Tony Oldham, Retired Mining Bookseller.
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