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Mines and Mining
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Previously offered on video, here are two interesting B & W films. The first, and shorter, is Rhondda and Wye from 1948, which contrasts the pastoral Wye Valley with the coal-mining Rhondda...
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The disaster that overtook Knockshinnoch Castle Colliery in Ayrshire during September 1950 was entirely due to human error in the planning of a new shaft. Thanks to human courage, whilst some...
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This book covers all the mines and trials in the areas of Carrock, Skiddaw and Blencathra to the northeast and east of Keswick. These workings yielded diverse minerals - lead, zinc and wolfram,...
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This excellent book describes “The Techniques of Metal Mining in the West of England, Past and Present” in considerable and fascinating detail; it is almost a treatise on hard rock...
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Originally published in 1556, this was one of the earliest technical books ever produced, and certainly the first on mining to be based on field research and observation. Its detailed technical...
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Two tremendous films dealing with hydro-electric schemes in Scotland. The first, The Moriston Project (33 mins) is about the building of the Glen Moriston dam by Mitchell Construction...
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If ever a publication shows how strongly Harvey & Co were established it is this wonderful catalogue, with page after page showing the items required in mining, from engines and boilers...
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Here are various tales of disasters, hazards and heroes over the years in various Cornish mines, all serving to illustrate just how dangerous a place mines were, even in the modern era. 48 pages....
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The Albion Colliery at Cilfynydd near Pontypridd was a typical nineteenth century South Wales coal mine until the 23rd June 1894, when an explosion deep underground resulted in the death of 290...
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John Peck was appointed photographer to the newly reopened Wheal Jane Mine, near Truro in 1972, a position he held until its final closure in 1991. Here are 56 b&w and 26 colour photographs...
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Here content from the Day & Night Book of Two Dolcoath Mine Captains for 1822-23 is reproduced and commented on by Allen Buckley, himself a former miner. 'Captains' were the shift foremen -...
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