If any of you have seen a copy of my pamphlet, you'll have noticed that
there are a number of errors. In particular, the captions to the
illustrations have been missed out; these should be:-
page 2: "The coalfield on the eve of nationalisation" ("Bristol and Somerset
Coalfield Regional Survey Report")
page 6: "The guss and crook" (Report of the Children’s Employment
Commission)
page 13: "A section through the New Golden Valley pit at Bitton" (John
Anstie, "The Coal Fields of Gloucestershire and Somersetshire, and their
Resources")
Apparently, it wasn't possible to make the illustrations and graphs any
larger, and Table 2, showing manpower and output was also a casualty.
Table 2; Output and manpower of the Bristol district at five-yearly
intervals
Year Output (tons) Workers
1860 542,000 not available
1865 not available not available
1870 532,235 not available
1875 571,050 3,457
1880 475,807 2,960
1885 505,450 3,050
1890 503,201 2,679
1895 337,423 2,002
1900 447,003 2,039
1905 not available not available
1910 not available not available
1915 384,000 1,967
1920 337,556 2,607
1925 256,404 1,523
1930 202,155 988
1935 165,391 864
1940 61,700 293
1945 50,000 300
1950 0 0
1955 13,613 not available
1960 76,711 not available
Finally, on page 10, the left-hand axis of the graph should be labelled
"Local output (tons)"
If anyone has spotted any other errors, please let me know.
Keith Ramsey
