A new book on the coalfields of north-east England.
Peter
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>Date: 13 Oct 2000 09:43:00 -0000
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>Tyne Bridge Publishing at Newcastle Libraries & Information Service has
>recently published 'The Art of Mining: Thomas Hair's Watercolours of the Great
>Northern Coalfield' by Douglas Glendinning at £6.99 plus £1 postage (cheques
>payable to City of Newcastle upon Tyne). This full colour paperback contains 23
>reproductions of the paintings (1830s-1840s) plus detailed descriptions and
>contemporary engravings. For the general reader, the book nevertheless should
>be of great interest to the historian of mining. Full details at our website
> http://www.newcastle.gov.uk/tynebridgepublishing .Click on Books -
Newcastle past and present.
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>Anna Flowers ([log in to unmask])
>Publications Manager, Newcastle Libraries
>City Library
>Princess Square
>Newcastle NE99 1DX
Anna also supplied copies of the following reviews -
>>From The Journal, Newcastle, review by Tony Henderson 8th September 2000
>'Almost 200 North-East communities once had a coal mine at their centre, And
>for 14 years from 1828, as mining powered huge industrial population groeth in
>the region, Newcastle artist Thomas Hair wandered the northern coalfield,
>recording in watercolurs the pits which littered the landscape.
>Durham University art historian Douglas Glendinning said: "In a time before
>photography the paintings provide a unique visual document of the social and
>industrial history of the North-East in the early 19th century. Hair's detailed
>observations of the coal industry are without equal."'
>
>>From The Shields Gazette, review by Murray Kelso 9th September 2000
>'Mine workings in South Tyneside have been brought back to life in a beautiful
>new book charting the history of the "black diamond".
>The Art of Mining celebrates the region's heritage in the 1800s and follows the
>progress of excavated coal from the pit to the ship and its export overseas.
>Wonderfully illustrated with the watercolours of Thomas Hair, the book features
>workings from around the region, including St Hilda's Colliery...'
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