2 new books arrived this week and are well worth having are available from
myself at www.moorebooks.co.uk and other outlets
Mike
*Barrow Salt, *Brian Cubbon, HB, DJ, 140pp, 17 plates, 13 Text figs £18.00
P&P
(Publishers details) There are substantial deposits of Rock Salt deep
beneath Walney Island, Barow-in-Furness, this account tells for the first
time something of the attempts made during the late 1890's and early 1900's
to establish a Salt Industry there. The Industry was short lived , but was
well founded, involving a number of prominent local businessmen. The
enterprise is a significant part of Barrows Industrial Heritage.
Alan W. Routledge, sb, 165 x 235, 96pp
Coal was the very bedrock on which the town of Whitehaven was built, the
trade in coal with Dublin starting after the Dissolution of the
Monasteries. Shipping ever increasing quantities of coal to Ireland brought
another industry to the town – shipbuilding. In the seventeenth century,
the Whitehaven Pottery began, local coal firing the kilns. Coal mining
fathered several more local industries, including chemicals, iron ore
smelting, glass bottle making, foundries, engineering and even the railways
made use of phenomenal quantities of coal.
*The Whitehaven Colliery through Time* - Alan W. Routledge, sb, 165 x 235,
96pp £14.99 + P&P
(publishers info) Coal was the very bedrock on which the town of Whitehaven
was built, the trade in coal with Dublin starting after the Dissolution of
the Monasteries. Shipping ever increasing quantities of coal to Ireland
brought another industry to the town – shipbuilding. In the seventeenth
century, the Whitehaven Pottery began, local coal firing the kilns. Coal
mining fathered several more local industries, including chemicals, iron
ore smelting, glass bottle making, foundries, engineering and even the
railways made use of phenomenal quantities of coal.
The winning of coal was a costly business in terms of lives lost, with
several disasters occurring in the Whitehaven Colliery. Women and young
children were employed in the mines, working for twelve hours or more a
day. Now, there are few physical traces left of the Whitehaven Colliery:
some sites have become housing estates and others have been returned to
grass. In this book, Alan W. Routledge looks at the history of the
Whitehaven Colliery.
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