Hi Mike,

That new book on Cornwall/ Devon mining sounds interesting.  Is it 
illustrated, and does it have much text, or does it mostly lay out a lot 
of  "facts and figures?    "Juicy" or dry, if you get my drift.

Thanks,
Woody Thompson

On 11/27/2014 7:26 AM, Mike Moore wrote:
> The following are available from the usual Outlets or can be obtained via
> myself at http://www.moorebooks.co.uk/home.php free free to email or
> telephone
>
> *British Mining No 98  Memoirs 2014*, SB, A5 112pp  (free to NMRS members)
> £10.00 + P&P,
>
> •Excavation of an early lead smelting site at Hagg Farm, Fremington,
> Swaledale (Richard Smith, Timothy Laurie, Alan Mills & Rob Vernon)
> •Warwickshire coal mining (Nigel A. Chapman)
> •East Pant du lead mine (Tony King)
> •Some major limestone workings in the West Riding of Yorkshire (John
> Goodchild)
> •Notes on opencast coal workings in the West Riding coalfield before 1941
> (John Goodchild)
> •Victoria Engine, Blakethwaite Mine, Gunnerside (Mike Gill)
> •Horse whims and gins, a study (Mike Gill, Tom Knapp & Peter Gallagher)
> •The enigma of the origins of the London Lead Company mining activities in
> Teesdale, County Durham (William Heyes)
>
> *Stone to Build London - Portland's Legacy, *Gill Hackman, HB, 250mm x
> 250mm, 320pp   £24.95 + P&P
>
> (Publishers summary) The characteristic white gleam of the Portland stone
> used to construct many of London’s most iconic buildings impresses both
> visitors to the Capital and those who live and work there. Some know
> vaguely that the stone comes from a rugged, bleak and quirky island
> projecting into the English Channel from the coast of Dorset, but few know
> anything of the colourful history of Portland and its quarrymen, or of the
> industry that brought stone
> from the island to build the city. That is the fascinating and intricate
> story that this book unravels.
>
> The book includes:
> • An account of the stone industry on the Isle of Portland. • How ‘time out
> of mind’ Portland stone came to London. • The rebuilding of London after
> the Great Fire of 1666.
> • How the quarrymen of Portland met the demands of a growing London. • How
> London’s grand buildings reflected the importance of the British Empire. •
> The twentieth century and its good times and bad times. • Portland - its
> environment and its future in the stone industry. • A gazetteer of
> buildings in London using Portland stone and examples from around the
> world. • Trails around Portland to see the remains of its industrial
> heritage. • The geology of Portland stone. • The history of stone
> quarrying.
>
> *Mining in Cornwall and Devon Mines and Men *Roger Burt with Raymond
> Burley, Mike Gill, Alasdair Neill, SB, 227mm x 150mm, 272pp, plus CD rom £25
>
> Mining in Cornwall and Devon is an economic history of mines, mineral
> ownership, and mine management in the South West of England.. The work
> brings together material from a variety of hard-to-find sources on the
> thousands of mines that operated in Cornwall and Devon from the late 1790s
> to the present day. It presents information on what they produced and when
> they produced it; who the owners and managers were and how many men, women
> and children were employed. For the mine owners, managers and engineers, it
> also offers a guide to their careers outside the South West, in other
> mining districts across Britain and the world. A long section on the Duchy
> of Cornwall provides details of the Duchy's role as the largest mineral
> owner in the South West, and of the modernisation and changing
> administration of the Stannaries. The printed book provides a guide to the
> sources, their interpretation and how they illustrate the long-term
> development and decline of the industry; the composite mine-by-mine tables
> are presented on an interactive CD included free with the book.
>
> *A Grey past and Blacker Future - Reminiscences of a Cardiganshire Miner in
> the Early 1900's  *Editor Megan Waring, SB, A5, 180pp £9.50 + P&P
>
> The Memoirs are in both Welsh and English and some mining reports are also
> included. The author of the memoirs, Elias Jones was born in the
> Cardiganshire village of Pontrhydygroes in 1881 and started life as a lead
> miner at the age of 13. When the price of lead fell, he travelled to
> Glamorgan to find work in the coal mines returning home at harvest or
> lambing time. He was self educated, politically motivated and left several
> memoirs in Welsh that have been translated here. This compilation also
> includes newspaper articles about him and mining articles in his
> possession. The reader will find him/herself back in an era where work was
> hard and badly paid. However, the humour of the miners can be seen and
> their interest in the wider world
>
> *Mines and Miners of Wensleydale, An Extensive history of Wensleydale's
> mining history - *Ian Spensley, SB, 175 x 245, 330pp, 8 colour pages and
> 170 pictures and plans £15.00 + P&P This is a most thorough and well
> presented publication and is well worth adding to your Library
>
> (Authors synopsis) It contains the full history of lead, zinc, barytes,
> coal, stone mining and a brief section on opencast limestone and freestone
> quarrying. There is a 40 page section on Social History from the sixteenth
> century to the end of the nineteenth. In the wider context, I have
> discussed the history of mining in the dale as effected by not only mining
> in the surrounding dales but on a national and international basis. The
> history of coal mining has turned out to be one of the most interesting
> subjects, Preston Moor Colliery at the end of the sixteenth and early
> seventeenth centuries was a major producer, nearly matching those in South
> Durham. Many anecdotes are included, such as Lord Scrope having Thomas Rudd
> locked up in York Castle gaol for non payment of of the £400 annual rental
> of Preston Moor Colliery in the 1620's, when Rudd moved his family in with
> him Scrope wanted to move him to the Marshalsea in London. Echos of Little
> Dorit. William Waller (the "viper in the nest" of the Mine Adventures of
> England) also turns up at Cotterdale Colliery where he systematically
> ruined Ewan Waller in 1691. The history of the flag (sandstone slates)
> quarries led me to looking at local architecture. Coal mining played an
> important part of the local limestone quarrying and lime burning. This
> connection led naturally through to quarrying limestone for steel making as
> well as road building. Thanks to a thesis by Coles, I have been able to
> bring to light much of the history of lead mining in the fifteenth century
> not only in Wensleydale but also in Swaledale and Arkengarthdale in
> particular. One of the earliest legal cases to come to light was one 1371
> when a number of miners were unlucky enough to get on the wrong side of
> Henry Percy at the Bishopdale/Buckden Gavel Mine.
>
> Christmas solved -
>
> Cheers
>
> Mike
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