Following on from "another book to look out for....."
Perhaps more obscure than some of the mining areas mentioned recently,
John Bennett and myself are researching the history of the St. Tudwal's
Peninsula lead and copper mines (sometimes known as the Llanengan Mining
Field), near Abersoch, on the western extremity of north Wales.
We are particularly anxious to have sight of a Sales Catalogue for the
sale of the equipment at the Port Nigel, Daugoch, Pantgwyn, Tanybwlch,
Bwlch Tocyn and Assheton Mines. Those of you familiar with the area
will realise that this represents all the major mines. The sale
itself was not a simple affair. It lasted three days from the
14th to the 16th June 1893. Major items included six Cornish Pumping
Engines, ten horizontal and two double cylinder portable engines as well
as all the attendant head frames, dressing machinery, etc, etc.
The auctioneers involved were Wheatley Kirk, Price and Gaulty of London
and Manchester. The sale was widely advertised during the preceding weeks
in the Manchester Guardian, Mining Journal and the Caernarvon and Denbighshire
Herald, and presumably elsewhere.
We have search all the local sources of information in north Wales,
although we have not yet been to the National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth.
Does anyone know the whereabouts of the Sales Catalogue (if it has
survived)? Such a sale would have had a very wide appeal to all those
associated with mining.
Any constructive help / advise on this matter would be gratefully
received.
Rob Vernon.
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