Bernard
Are you on Commission I too have these in stock
10% off any order placed and paid for in the next 5 days if collected at
NAHMO conference
Mike
www.moorebooks.co.uk
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From: Bernard Moore <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 11:54 PM
Subject: New Books
> Dear All,
>
> I thought I must bring to the attention of list members three books that I
> have just completed reading.
>
> The first is "Out of the Pennines" pbld. by The Friends of Killhope, and
> edited by Bryan Chambers. It is a very well presented aprx. A4 pbl., and
> covers many aspects of Teesdale and Weardale mining with 'sections'
written
> by local retired professional mining men, and others with a deep interest
in
> both Dales. I can guarantee a really good read, and a very worthy addition
to
> anyone's mining library - it has one of the best mining paintings I have
seen
> as a front cover (Cow Green Mine). It also fully details the Hedworth
Barium
> Co. that I asked about a while ago!
>
> The second and third books are: "South West Granite - A History of the
> Granite Industry in Cornwall and Devon" by Peter Stanier. A really
excellent
> book, with a real wealth of p.graphs, and a p.graph. of one of the largest
> blocks of quarried granite I have ever seen, though' taken before 1900 -
it
> has what must be nearly a couple of hundred quarrymen standing on top of
it!
> The second is "Images of Cornish Tin", by Alan Stoyel & Peter Williams.
There
> is not much more that I can say about this book, other than it's huge
> superbly produced (mostly colour) content is unsurpassed. It is a complete
> pictorial history of the dying embers of what is left of Cornish mining;
what
> is left now, and was left over the last 30 or 40 years. A true record,
very
> professionally produced. Always good to pick up accurate books such as the
> above, and these are true examples of same.
>
> I purchased these books from the Threlkeld Quarry & Mining Museum a few
weeks
> ago, and am sure they have other copies. If you are interested in these
books
> I am sure they will be pleased to help you out - and at the same time you
> will be helping a very good cause at the same time. They carry a very
large
> range of books - they have a superb 1st edit. copy of Simonin as well! -
> pant, pant! The museums contacts below (Ian & Jean Tyler).
>
> I hope the above is of use to you. Regards, Bernard.
>
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> 017687 79747 or 01228 561883
> Threlkeld Quarry & Mining Museum, Threlkeld, Keswick CA12 4TT.
>
> p.s. Have just today discovered a spare copy of Ore & Stone Mining by Le
Neve
> Foster in my library! If of interest, please contact off-list.
>
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