INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE - Industry People Transport. Vol 27 No 4 Winter 2001
40 pp photos. 1 year’s subscription £12.50 from Yorkshire History, Proctor
House, Kirkgate, Settle, N Yorks BD24 9DZ
An illegal enterprise in Surrey in the Seventeenth century: Thomas
Steere’s wireworks at Chilworth [Surrey] by Glenys Crocker. An
interesting account which also describes the wireworks at Tintern in the
Wye Valley, Monmouthshire.
Coal - In Lincolnshire by ROTA. And why not one might ask? As there
were fortunes being made in the coal industry in neighbouring Yorkshire
and Lancashire local entrenpreurs sunk trial shafts at Woodhall Spa.
They failed to find coal but did find water with amazing curative
properties.
Castlefield, Manchester / The regeneration and sustainable development of
historic industrial site (part two) by Derek Brumhead.
Happy Valley No More by Jack Nadin. On the morning of Thursday 22 March
1962, a methane gas explosion tore through the Rise Two District of
Hapton Valley Colliery on the outskirts of Burnley in Lancashire.
Sixteen men were killed and 20 injured. All proceeds of this book go to
the Hapton Valley Colliery Disaster Fund.
Coal seams and mine workings below Moorhead and Meggs Farm by Phil
Hudson. More information has appeared since the publication of the book
“Coal Mining in Lunesdale”. An extensive colliery under Hornby Castle
Estates is described with many useful references.
Faversham Bricks, anon. A million bricks every 10 days! That was the
number used to build the 878 arch railway viaduct from London Bridge to
Deptford.
The Warwick Siphon by John Brace. The story of the problem involved in
supplying the town of Warwick with a clean water supply.
Russian Mining History by E Zablotski. From about 1703 to 1840 the
Russian Mining Industry was dominated by English Mining Engineers. The
author has made a detailed study of these men and listed their names,
years of service, end of service, place of work and references (in
Russian). Eventually these men were replaced by graduates of the Mining
Institute in St Petersburg.
The development of the Clitheroe Union Workhouse is a review of Keepers
of the House by F H Lofthouse.
The Kilbagie Canal by John M T Howat. In 1780 a canal from the River
Forth in Scotland was constructed to transport grain and export whisky.
The Tramshed and The Arsenal by Jack Vaughan. The so-called Woolwich
Tramshed had a colourful history. First as an electrical generating
plant, then as a theatre with a popular lunchtime bar presided over by
the Mayor of Greenwich no less.
As usual. something of interest to everybody.
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