Dear all
On 9 May I announced an on-line search facility to my website of Jeremy
Wilkinson's gazetteer and bibliography of the Mines and Quarries of
North Wales.
Since then I've added a couple of extra features:
(1) When looking for mines within a certain distance from a given
place, that place can be specified as a grid reference, a mine name, a
place name or a the first (outgoing) part of a postcode. (If a postcode
is used the location used is somewhere near the centre of the postcode
area.)
(2) I've also arranged that all mine, person and company names are
cross-referenced as web links. This makes it possible, say, to search
for a mine and see what company owned it, click on the company name and
get a list of all mines owned and the company directors etc., click on
a company director to see what interests he or she had and then follow
those links and so on.
As always I'd be interested in comments, corrections and suggestions
for improvements. Even if you're not specifically interested in north
Wales, I'd be grateful for comments on how useful this type of
information organization is to the mining history community.
Also, if anyone has what they would consider a significant reference
website (i.e. something a bit more significant than an exploration trip
reports) for a mine or group of mines in north Wales, I'd be interested
to hear from them with a view to adding links from the Gazetteer to
their web site.
You'll find the Mines and Quarries of North Wales at
http://www.hendrecoed.org.uk/Wilkinson/
and the search facility at
http://www.hendrecoed.org.uk/Wilkinson/search/
Dave
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Dave Linton
01341 280901
http://www.hendrecoed.org.uk/
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