This may be a red herring but there is a John Knowles in the members lists
of the North of England Institute in 1879 who gives his address as
Westwood, Pendlebury, Manchester
Dave
>I am trying to trace the location of Westwood Colliery, which was
>working in the 1880s.
>
>Sorry - I've been given nothing more to go on.
>
>Can anyone help please.
>
>
>Mike Gill
>Recorder - Northern Mine Research Society
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>Mike Gill
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>Northern Mine Research Society
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David A. Summers
Curators' Professor of Mining Engineering
Adjunct Professor of Nuclear Engineering
Director
Rock Mechanics and Explosives Research Center
University of Missouri-Rolla,
Rolla, MO 65401
"fools talk, wise men listen." (a variant of Prov 12:23)
phone: (573) 341 4314
FAX: (573) 341 4368
related web pages
Rock Mechanics http://www.umr.edu/~rockmech/
Waterjet Lab: http://www.umr.edu/~waterjet/
UMR Stonehenge: http://www.umr.edu/~stonehen/
Personal: http://www.umr.edu/~rockmech/data/Summers.html
Mining Eng. http://www.umr.edu/~mining/
Waterjet Assoc http://www.wjta.org/
International Waterjet Society: http://www.iw.uni-hannover.de/iswjt/
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Millennium project (sculpture): http://www.umr.edu/~milenium/
Project ELADIN (landmines): http://eladin.umr.edu/
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