List members may be interested in the following new title covering selected British Colliery disasters.
"Call the Roll" by Peter C. Navin
Call the Roll, Soft back, 6.5 inches by 9.5 inches, 213 pages.
ISBN 1-4120-9335-X ; Trafford Publishing.
Price: £11.99 plus P&P (see note below amount discount for NMMA Members)
The books Contents include the following;
List of plates (33 in total)
List of plans, maps and illustrations 54 in total)
Acknowledgement
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Workings of a coal mine, method of working, machinery and gases.
Chapter 2 - The Diamond Pit, Bardsley Colliery, Lancs. 2nd Feb,1858. (explosion)
Chapter 3 - Clifton Hall Colliery, Lancs. 18th June, 1885. (explosion)
Chapter 4 - Mauricewood Pit, Pencuik, Scotland, 5th Sept. 1889. (underground Fife)
Chapter 5 - Ravenslodge Colliery, Yorks. 4th Aug.l892. (inundation)
Chapter 6 - Cadeby Main Colliery, Yorks. 9th July, 1912. (two explosion).
Chapter 7 - Outburst of coal and fife-damp at Cynheidre/Pentremawr Colliery, Carms. 6th April, 1971.
Chapter 8 - Glossary of mining terms.
About the Author: Peter was born in Burnley in Lancashire. A town was well known for its cotton mills, industrial factories and collieries. He qualified as a colliery electrician in the 1960's, working in the Burnley area's collieries, Hapton Valley, Thornybank and Bank Hall. When Bank Hall Colliery closed in 1971, he came to South Wales working at Cynheidre Nos. 1 & 2 Colliery until it closed in 1989.
The book can be obtained from: amazon.co.uk or via the publishers ; Trafford Publishing (www.trafford.com). Alternatively it may be purchased direct from the author himself;
Peter C. Navin
6, Jenkins Crescent Trimsaran
Nr. Kidwelly Carmarthenshire
SAl7 4DB
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
All cheque s must be made payable to Peter C. Cardwell.
Please note that members of the National Mining Memorabilia Association can obtain the book from the author at the specially discounted price of £10.50 plus £1.25 postage.
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