Good afternoon!
Ashington was, so it claimed, the largest Mining village in
the world. Since I think every relevant generation of my family
worked there at one thing or another since the first shaft was sunk
(though I was only there on a couple of underground visits) and we
lived within a strong-armed stone's throw of the pit, what more can I
say. There are a number of locally written books about the pit and
the village (some of which I have) and there is a museum (sorry I
can't find the exact reference but you can find it covered at:
http://www.visitbritain.com/destinations/dmos/02/02ac1299.htm
There was even an Ashington school of painting - covered in "Pitmen
Painters- the Ashington Group 1934-1984" by William Feaver, published
by the Mid Northumberland Arts Group, Carcanet Press in 1993.
I would be interested in learning where I might get a lamp - you
might drop me a line - offline
Thanks
Dave
David A. Summers
Curators' Professor of Mining Engineering
Adjunct Professor of Nuclear Engineering
Director
Rock Mechanics and Explosives Research Center
University of Missouri-Rolla,
Rolla, MO 65409-0810
"fools talk, wise men listen." (a variant of Prov 12:23)
phone: (573) 341 4314
FAX: (573) 341 4368
related web pages
A growing selection of Dr. Summers' papers are being put on the Web
and can be accessed through the Bibliography
http://www.umr.edu/~rockmech/faculty/biography.html
Rock Mechanics http://www.umr.edu/~rockmech/
Waterjet Lab: http://www.umr.edu/~waterjet/
UMR Stonehenge: http://www.umr.edu/~stonehen/
Personal: http://www.umr.edu/~rockmech/data/Summers.html
Mining Eng. http://www.umr.edu/~mining/
Waterjet Assoc http://www.wjta.org/
International Waterjet Society: http://www.iw.uni-hannover.de/iswjt/
Millennium project (sculpture): http://www.umr.edu/~milenium/
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