Digressing slightly: A couple of weeks ago I visited the Scottish National
War Memorial in Edinburgh Castle. Purely by chance I came across a memorial
to the "Tunnellers Friends" i.e the mice and canaries used by military
miners during the First World War.
Rick Stewart
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From: "Peter Challis" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 12:45 PM
Subject: Re: Coal mines and the use of the canary
> On 17 Sep 2008, at 19:45, Owen Baker wrote:
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> > There is photoraph and biography of Clement Le Neve Foster in the'
> > Royal
> > School of Mines, Register and History 1851-1920', pp142-146. He died
> > in 1904
> > Owen Baker
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>
> There are also many obituaries to him in the scientific literature and
> not a few photographs extant in the public domain, including the
> superb photograph of him in Foxdale Mine, I.O.M., taken by G.W.
> Williams, his assistant Inspector of Mines in north Wales.
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