John
Welcome to the list.
I would be interested in hearing more of the Ball Clay Heritage Society.
Do let me have details, off-list would probably be preferred.
Michael
In message <000501c0023e$bf6d1980$1225fc3e@default>, John Dale
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>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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