Hi Peter,
Many thanks for those locations. The British Library (at Boston Spa) has
quite a few more than your listing.
Thanks also for your kind offer to extract specific details. Unfortunately,
I want all the (pre-1974) Yorkshire entries for coal, ironstone, fireclay,
ganister and stone mines. This amounts to between 450 and 500 entries per
year at that time which, I am sure, would soon exhaust your charitable
offer! Wherever possible, I photocopy the Yorkshire section and will keep
those copies even after they have been entered onto the database.
I am sure that your point about cut-off dates is correct. Unfortunately,
not only do they omit to tell the public, but most members of staff are also
unaware and regard any suggestion that this may be so as an affront. By not
listing items, the lack of use argument becomes self-fulfilling.
Unless Lancashire Records at Preston come up with the goods, it looks like
I'll be having a holiday in either South Wales or Cambridge.
Further to Keith's point about the 'List of quarries' - I know they exist,
but have never seen one. The 'List of Mines' in the early 20th century does
carry details of those quarries where stone was mined. That, of course, is
only a small percentage of quarries.
Mike Gill
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