If you are interested in seeing (quickly!) the content of this book, there 
is a page by page preview at 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BoLxGZ2_Jo&feature=youtu.be
What the publisher review below doesn't tell you is that there are a huge 
number of colour photos in the book. Derek Hawkins really knows his stuff 
(as you can tell from the review below) and the content of his talks and 
quality of images he uses are very good. I have already told my family I 
want a copy of this book for Christmas.

This way of showing a page by page preview of a book is new to me and seems 
a really good idea.

Have a good Christmas you all
Cheers
Roger

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Moore" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 9:12 AM
Subject: [mining-history] New Book Bath Stone Quarries by Derek Hawkins


*Bath Stone Quarries* - Derek Hawkins, HB, 250mm x 250mm, 224pp, -
publication of this book has been delayed until 18 December price £24.95 -
I will offer post free on advance orders

Bath Stone Quarries is a comprehensive photographic record of the Bath
stone industry from the mid-Victorian period to the present day. Its scope
includes not just the surviving underground relics of the industry but also
the surface tramways, loading wharfs and cutting yards associated with it.

The book traces the history of the industry up until the start of the
Second World War, when many of the quarries were requisitioned for
government use. The early phases of the government conversion work is
covered, but the bigger wartime history of the quarries can be found in our
sister volume, Second World War Secret Bunkers.

The story continues in the immediate post-war years, when quarrying resumed
in a small number of quarries, while others were adapted for other
peacetime uses. The new quarrying techniques employed at Westwood, Monks
Park and Limpley Stoke are illustrated in some detail.

Topics covered include:
•The Combe Down and Claverton Down mines including open quarries,
underground workings and associated tramways. The book covers their early
history up to the recent infilling.
•Quarries and quarry tramways in the Avon Valley: Limpley Stoke, Conkwell,
Murhill, Westwood, and all the little-known underground workings in
Bradford-on-Avon.
•All the quarries on Farleigh Down, including Brown's Folly, Dapstone,
Kingsdown, Longsplatt, etc along with the Farleigh Down tramway and sidings
and the Kingsdown yard.
•Also covered, in some detail, the Box Quarries, tramways and masons yards,
with many stunning archive images of Clift Quarry and other locations.
•Spring Quarry, the largest of all the Corsham quarries, is covered in
great detail, as are Monks Park and Ridge quarries.
•Coverage is also given to the many smaller but still important quarries in
the Corsham area, including Brewers Yard, Hollybush, Sands, Copenacre,
Goodes Hill, Eastlays, Elm Park etc.

Derek Hawkins has spent his entire working life in the Bath and Corsham
stone quarries. He began as a quarryman in Limpley Stoke Quarry in the
early 1980s. Then he became Mine Manager at Monkton Farleigh Mine when it
was open to the public. For the last twenty years he has been Quarry Safety
Manager working for the MoD in Corsham.

Derek has been exploring the abandoned Bath stone quarries since his early
teens. He is a passionate photographer and has accumulated a vast library
of images of the quarries, many of the best of which are included in this
book.
Derek also lectures on the subject of the underground stone quarries of
Bath and North Wiltshire.

Mike

www.moorebooks.co.uk