>Book Reviews
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>The Bronze Age Coast Project / The Great Orme Explained by Diane and
>Nigel Campbell Bannerman.  81 pp, illus, map, loose leaf photocopy.
>Price £8 from Diane Bannerman, 27 Abbey Road, Llandudno LL30 2EH.  [a
>printed full colour edition with lots of photos is also planned next
>year, cost about £10.00]
>
>This is an excellent multi-disciplinary introduction to Great Ormes
>Head, a limestone promontory, at Llandudno in North Wales.
>
>The Bronze Age Coast Project was started in 1994 and this gazetteer
>lists 221 sites of which over 70 are mines or sites associated with
>mining activities.
>
>Both the study of aerial photos and field work has led to the discovery
>of many small mines, potential washing sites, jetties built for the
>export of ore and limestone, and revealed piles of copper slag ballast,
>jettisoned by sailing ships that came from the Swansea and Warrington
>copper ore smelting works.
>
>One of the first finds was the discovery of  Badger Cave, already known
>as a Neolithic habitation, but as a result of charcoal dating it has now
>been designated as a Prehistoric mine.
>
>An interesting insight into current mining history research in North
>Wales
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>INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE - Industry People Transport.  Vol 26 No 3 Autumn
>2000  36 pp photos, colour cover. Price £2.90 or 1 years subscription
>£11.50 from Hudson History, Proctor House, Kirkgate, Settle, N Yorks
>BD24 9DZ
>
>This recently revamped journal has plenty to interest the industrial
>archaeologist cum mining historian:
>
>The journal begins on a sad note with an obituary for John Keavey
>1922-2000.  John was founder and editor of this journal for 26 years and
>it is only fitting that this issues opens with his last editorial.
>
>The new editor, Philip Hudson, is well known in the world of Industrial
>Archaeology as the author of “Coal Mining in Lunesdale” and many papers
>too numerous to mention.
>
>The Hockley Viaduct by Dr Edwin Course is a fascinating insight into
>early concrete bridges.  The Hockley Viaduct was faced with building
>bricks and although its concrete structure would had been known to
>Inspecting Officers and railway engineers at the time, over the years
>this curious fact had long been forgotten.  It had been planned to
>demolish the bridge but fortunately the cost was prohibitive.  It was
>only recently when the plans were passed to Hampshire County Council
>that its unusual concrete heritage was discovered.
>
>Book Review by Charles Dawson - The Middle Ages of Internal Combustion
>Engine 1794-1886 by Horst O Hardenburg.  Prof Dr Hardenburg, the retired
>technical executive of Diamler-Benz has written, in English, a follow-up
>to his earlier work on the Antiquity of the Internal Combustion Engine.
>A massive work, noted for its superb drawings of engines and thousands
>of references will be a be a standard work on this topic for years to
>come.
>
>The Potteries of Burton-in-Lonsdale (or Black Burton) by Henry Bateson
>is a long and detailed history which of an industry which began in the
>mid 17th century as early as 1609.  The author traces the family history
>of his ancestor Robert Bateson and his successors.  The various types of
>`pots’ are described: stone ware, salt glaze, earthen ware and even
>flower pots for Woolworths.
>
>News Round-Up contains remarkable snippets from all around the county:
>Dere Street Trail - a Roman road; The Iron and Steel Industry Special
>Interest Group; The Mills built by Titus Salt at Saltaire; The Windmill
>at Hawkstone; The Scottish Mining Museum; etc
>
>Mull Granite by Rota [the pen name of the late editor John Keavey].  The
>Ross of Mull has provided a fine `red’ granite much in demand for
>lighthouses and decorative work etc since 1832.
>
>Canal and River Currents describes the HMS Carrick, an 1864, Clipper
>Sailing Ship.
>
>A Six Wheeled Pullman Car describes a rare sleeping coach used in 1885
>on the Highland Railway.
>
>Trollhattan Canal, Sweden by Charles Dawson dates from the mid 18th
>century when the first steps were taken to by-pass that great natural
>obstacle the 82 metre high, Trollhatte Falls.
>
>Quarterly Book Reviews include:  Carrying Coals to Dunstan by Ernest
>Manns (Oakwood Press).
>
>The London and Birmingham Railway in Early 1838 by Peter S Richards
>shows how the early railway engineers had to overcome one the main
>problems of railway construction.  As the engines were unable to climb
>steep gradients the navvies had their work cut out making the line as
>flat as possible by excavating cuttings, boring tunnels and building
>embankments often using the spoil from the cuttings and tunnels.
>
>This concludes another interesting journal.
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