Two books of note are now available,
Notes on an Old Colliery Pumping Engine (1791) William Thompson Anderson,
(Edited by Steve Grudgings), Sb, Foolscap,83pp
.
The work is based on the Pentrich Engine using original drawings and
photographs (the latter enlarged for better detail) what is here is a
fascinating study of a Newcomen Engine brought together by Steve Grudgings
anyone with an interest in these Engines will find it an invaluable work .
The paper was read before the Manchester Geological and Mining Society, by
Anderson in 1917.
£15.00 + P&P
The Tredegar Company; One of the South Wales Coalfield's "Big Three"
Leslie M. Shore, Hb, 208 pp, 275x215mm. Printed on gloss art paper with
colour laminated board covers.
The Tredegar Company earned its wealth from iron and coal. In the
nineteenth century the ‘Great’ South Wales Tredegar iron works operated at
the head of the Sirhowy Valley on land owned by the Morgan family of
Tredegar House, near the city of Newport. During the Railway Age, the works
supplied iron rail to the world. Isambard Kingdom Brunel selected ‘Tredegar
coal’ to power his pioneering steam ship Great Western and after 1840 the
company’s sale of steam coal boomed. In 1873, the Tredegar Iron & Coal
Company acquired the assets of the Tredegar Iron Company. Charles McLaren,
1st Lord Aberconway, and Sir Arthur Markham became the company’s most
influential directors. From 1898, coal mined at the company’s McLaren
Colliery became valued by navies worldwide. During Alfred S. Tallis’s
period of general management, the company not only opened Oakdale
Navigation Collieries (1907-1911), Markham Colliery (1910-1913), and Wyllie
Colliery (1924-1926) but built model villages to house the families of
officials and miners. The toil of generations of miners produced many
millions of tons of coal as fuel for steam ships and railway locomotives.
In a climate of industrial conflict and political change the company became
one of the ‘Big Three’ of the South Wales Coalfield. Leslie Shore offers a
history of the Tredegar Company with an account of the fate of the
company’s collieries under National Coal Board control. This history is a
sequel to his Peerless Powell Duffryn of the South Wales Coalfield
£25.00 + P&P
Mike
available from www.moorebooks.co.uk
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