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*British Mining No 98 Memoirs 2014*, SB, A5 112pp (free to NMRS members)
£10.00 + P&P,
•Excavation of an early lead smelting site at Hagg Farm, Fremington,
Swaledale (Richard Smith, Timothy Laurie, Alan Mills & Rob Vernon)
•Warwickshire coal mining (Nigel A. Chapman)
•East Pant du lead mine (Tony King)
•Some major limestone workings in the West Riding of Yorkshire (John
Goodchild)
•Notes on opencast coal workings in the West Riding coalfield before 1941
(John Goodchild)
•Victoria Engine, Blakethwaite Mine, Gunnerside (Mike Gill)
•Horse whims and gins, a study (Mike Gill, Tom Knapp & Peter Gallagher)
•The enigma of the origins of the London Lead Company mining activities in
Teesdale, County Durham (William Heyes)
*Stone to Build London - Portland's Legacy, *Gill Hackman, HB, 250mm x
250mm, 320pp £24.95 + P&P
(Publishers summary) The characteristic white gleam of the Portland stone
used to construct many of London’s most iconic buildings impresses both
visitors to the Capital and those who live and work there. Some know
vaguely that the stone comes from a rugged, bleak and quirky island
projecting into the English Channel from the coast of Dorset, but few know
anything of the colourful history of Portland and its quarrymen, or of the
industry that brought stone
from the island to build the city. That is the fascinating and intricate
story that this book unravels.
The book includes:
• An account of the stone industry on the Isle of Portland. • How ‘time out
of mind’ Portland stone came to London. • The rebuilding of London after
the Great Fire of 1666.
• How the quarrymen of Portland met the demands of a growing London. • How
London’s grand buildings reflected the importance of the British Empire. •
The twentieth century and its good times and bad times. • Portland - its
environment and its future in the stone industry. • A gazetteer of
buildings in London using Portland stone and examples from around the
world. • Trails around Portland to see the remains of its industrial
heritage. • The geology of Portland stone. • The history of stone
quarrying.
*Mining in Cornwall and Devon Mines and Men *Roger Burt with Raymond
Burley, Mike Gill, Alasdair Neill, SB, 227mm x 150mm, 272pp, plus CD rom £25
Mining in Cornwall and Devon is an economic history of mines, mineral
ownership, and mine management in the South West of England.. The work
brings together material from a variety of hard-to-find sources on the
thousands of mines that operated in Cornwall and Devon from the late 1790s
to the present day. It presents information on what they produced and when
they produced it; who the owners and managers were and how many men, women
and children were employed. For the mine owners, managers and engineers, it
also offers a guide to their careers outside the South West, in other
mining districts across Britain and the world. A long section on the Duchy
of Cornwall provides details of the Duchy's role as the largest mineral
owner in the South West, and of the modernisation and changing
administration of the Stannaries. The printed book provides a guide to the
sources, their interpretation and how they illustrate the long-term
development and decline of the industry; the composite mine-by-mine tables
are presented on an interactive CD included free with the book.
*A Grey past and Blacker Future - Reminiscences of a Cardiganshire Miner in
the Early 1900's *Editor Megan Waring, SB, A5, 180pp £9.50 + P&P
The Memoirs are in both Welsh and English and some mining reports are also
included. The author of the memoirs, Elias Jones was born in the
Cardiganshire village of Pontrhydygroes in 1881 and started life as a lead
miner at the age of 13. When the price of lead fell, he travelled to
Glamorgan to find work in the coal mines returning home at harvest or
lambing time. He was self educated, politically motivated and left several
memoirs in Welsh that have been translated here. This compilation also
includes newspaper articles about him and mining articles in his
possession. The reader will find him/herself back in an era where work was
hard and badly paid. However, the humour of the miners can be seen and
their interest in the wider world
*Mines and Miners of Wensleydale, An Extensive history of Wensleydale's
mining history - *Ian Spensley, SB, 175 x 245, 330pp, 8 colour pages and
170 pictures and plans £15.00 + P&P This is a most thorough and well
presented publication and is well worth adding to your Library
(Authors synopsis) It contains the full history of lead, zinc, barytes,
coal, stone mining and a brief section on opencast limestone and freestone
quarrying. There is a 40 page section on Social History from the sixteenth
century to the end of the nineteenth. In the wider context, I have
discussed the history of mining in the dale as effected by not only mining
in the surrounding dales but on a national and international basis. The
history of coal mining has turned out to be one of the most interesting
subjects, Preston Moor Colliery at the end of the sixteenth and early
seventeenth centuries was a major producer, nearly matching those in South
Durham. Many anecdotes are included, such as Lord Scrope having Thomas Rudd
locked up in York Castle gaol for non payment of of the £400 annual rental
of Preston Moor Colliery in the 1620's, when Rudd moved his family in with
him Scrope wanted to move him to the Marshalsea in London. Echos of Little
Dorit. William Waller (the "viper in the nest" of the Mine Adventures of
England) also turns up at Cotterdale Colliery where he systematically
ruined Ewan Waller in 1691. The history of the flag (sandstone slates)
quarries led me to looking at local architecture. Coal mining played an
important part of the local limestone quarrying and lime burning. This
connection led naturally through to quarrying limestone for steel making as
well as road building. Thanks to a thesis by Coles, I have been able to
bring to light much of the history of lead mining in the fifteenth century
not only in Wensleydale but also in Swaledale and Arkengarthdale in
particular. One of the earliest legal cases to come to light was one 1371
when a number of miners were unlucky enough to get on the wrong side of
Henry Percy at the Bishopdale/Buckden Gavel Mine.
Christmas solved -
Cheers
Mike
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