I have received advance notice of this book due out later this month, I'm
offering it post free for advance orders
*The Notebook of a Devon Great Consols Mine Captain: 1886 – 1900 *,
written by William Woolcock.his notebook has been transcribed by Rick
Stewart and Robert Waterhouse,, Sb, A4, 68pp, The years covered in the
diary find this once great copper mine struggling to survive mainly through
sales of arsenic. This was also the period when Devon Great Consols was
engaged in an ultimately fruitless search for tin at depth. Woolcock
working at Wheal Emma was much involved in this
Mike.
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https://www.moorebooks.co.uk/ tel 01952 405105
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