Min-Hist Biblio
Our Terror as the garden fell into a 330 ft deep hole by Lucie Morris.
Daily Mail January 7, 2000 p 11 photo. Abandoned mineshaft opens up on
the night of a family party. Local mining expert Tony Bennet said the
shaft was called the Elvan shaft and is part of the Wheal Sparnon mine
which closed in the 1870’s. Sixteen homes in Reading remained evacuated
last night after several terrace houses built on top of a chalk mine
collapse into a hole.
Tower Story. Western Mail January 18, 2000 16 pp supplement, illus.
Describes how the miners used their redundancy money to buy and re-open
their old pit. The story has now been made into an opera.
Mine sheds 50 workers, Anon. Western Mail 22 January 2000 p 3. Betws
anthracite mine, near Ammanford is reducing its 115 strong work force.
Retired pit pony found, Anon. Western Mail 22 January 2000 p 9. Now in
Fforest Uchaf Horse and Pony Centre at Ponrtpridd. The last two ponies
known to be working underground were retired last year.
Wiping the slate clean of grim decades of decline and decay by Roy
Hancock. Western Mail 25 January 2000 p 8, 3 photos. An almost whole
page spread on the Welsh slate industry. A regeneration program is
pouring £6.6 million into the area.
Blaenavon bids for world heritage status, Anon. Western Mail 26 January
2000 pp 6-7 photo. In December 2000 residents of Blaenavon will learn
if their bid for Unesco World Heritage has been successful.
Contributed by Tony Oldham, Specialist Bookseller for Mines and Caves.
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