I always knew you could turn a website into a book.. Just copy and paste.
If you copy more than one website, it is then called research. [cf Caves and
Mines of Anglesey]. But turning a book into a website – well that has to be
a first :-)
Cheers - Tony Oldham
Duncavin
1 Riverside Mews
CARDIGAN
SA43 1DH
United Kingdom
http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/~arb/speleo/guides.html
http://www.showcaves.com
http://www.mike.munro.cwc.net/mining/tony_o/tonyo_hp.htm
http://www.showcaves.com/foreign/Big/F003-003.jpg
>From: david hardwick <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: "The mining-history list." <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Bristol Coalfield
>Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:16:28 -0000
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>This message is really for Keith Ramsey but others may be interested
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>Whilst doing a little web searching for BRISTOL COAL I came across the
>following pages on a site called "Memories of Bristol England Past and
>Present" (www.bristolhistory.com <http://www.bristolhistory.com/> )
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>http://weldgen.tripod.com/the-bristol-coal-industry/index.html
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>http://weldgen.tripod.com/the-bristol-coal-industry/id3.html
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>http://weldgen.tripod.com/the-bristol-coal-industry/id4.html
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>They appear to be a straight copy of Keith's excellent booklet on the
>Bristol Coal Industry. Apart from:-
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>Keith's introduction and overview of the Coalfield is missing
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>"Introduction" is Keith's Appendex 1,
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>"1854" is Keith's "The coalfield before 1854"
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>"scale" is Keith's "After 1854: The scale of the Industry"
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>The appendix on trade unions is missing as is any reference to sources
>notes
>etc
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>Instead of the table of amounts of coal worked from the 1871 commisioners'
>report there is just a statement "the results of their calculations are
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>guess work." !!
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>Figure 1 is also omitted along with the reference to it and half the
>following sentence so that the next sentence starts .. City Boundaries (and
>makes no sense!!)
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>The rest of this chapter (including Victorian views and the decline of the
>industry are missing)
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>(oh, by the way, this comes up on my browser with a tag "Bristol Churches"
>!!!!)
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>I am assuming Keith doesn't know anything about this as I first came across
>this site where there is also a list of mining fatalities lifted from
>Doreen
>Lindegaards series of publications "killed in a coalpit" without any
>consent
>nor even an acknowledgement
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>Which goes to prove there is a lot of copied stuff out there and much of it
>(as in this case) is poorly done
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>Regards
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>David
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