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This message is really for Keith Ramsey but others may be interested Whilst doing a little web searching for BRISTOL COAL I came across the following pages on a site called "Memories of Bristol England Past and Present" (www.bristolhistory.com <http://www.bristolhistory.com/> ) http://weldgen.tripod.com/the-bristol-coal-industry/index.html http://weldgen.tripod.com/the-bristol-coal-industry/id3.html http://weldgen.tripod.com/the-bristol-coal-industry/id4.html They appear to be a straight copy of Keith's excellent booklet on the Bristol Coal Industry. Apart from:- Keith's introduction and overview of the Coalfield is missing "Introduction" is Keith's Appendex 1, "1854" is Keith's "The coalfield before 1854" "scale" is Keith's "After 1854: The scale of the Industry" The appendix on trade unions is missing as is any reference to sources notes etc Instead of the table of amounts of coal worked from the 1871 commisioners' report there is just a statement "the results of their calculations are pure guess work." !! Figure 1 is also omitted along with the reference to it and half the following sentence so that the next sentence starts .. City Boundaries (and makes no sense!!) The rest of this chapter (including Victorian views and the decline of the industry are missing) (oh, by the way, this comes up on my browser with a tag "Bristol Churches" !!!!) I am assuming Keith doesn't know anything about this as I first came across this site where there is also a list of mining fatalities lifted from Doreen Lindegaards series of publications "killed in a coalpit" without any consent nor even an acknowledgement Which goes to prove there is a lot of copied stuff out there and much of it (as in this case) is poorly done Regards David