I received the following email from Ian Pope who offers valuable information for the list:
Trevor
I have been reading the postings with interest but have not replied to the list as the system won't let me! I shall have to rejoin the list and set all the parameters correctly next time.
However, the Forest of Dean has just been mentioned and I thought I would point out that a lot of Forest material has been put up on my website at:
http://www.users.waitrose.com/~iapope/Coalopen.html
Some of the collieries have had full histories appear in some of my railway publications on the Forest of Dean area, whilst others are fully written up awaiting publication.
Also, I have a collection of some 600-800 images of the coalfield, many of which have now been scanned.
The co-ordinating body for the Forest of Dean is the Local History Society who are about to publish on CD a list of all men killed in mining & quarrying in the Forest, together with a list of all Freeminers registered in the Dean.
If anybody has Forest of Dean questions then I am only too happy to help.
As a publisher we have done several books on Forest mining including a comprehensive history of the Freeminers rights and one on the 1926 strike. (see www.lightmoor.co.uk).
If any of this might be useful to the list please pass it on, as I said at the moment I cannot post to the list and in the past have not felt the need to!!
Ian Pope
Witney
Many thanks Ian for this information and in particular the offer to help with any questions.
Trevor
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