British Mining Memoirs 1976-1999

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• Lumb Clough Lead Smelting Mill (JM Dickinson, MC Gill & HM Martell)
• A Prototype Aerial Ropeway at Hebden (JM Dickinson)
• North Mossdale Mine (MC Gill)
• Cost of Sinking the Hanging Hey Pit (JA Aked)
• Articles of Agreement between J. Farrer and A. Shaw (JA Aked)
• The Instructions given by the Company of Mines Royal to George Bowes and Francis Needham (JDJ Wildridge)
• Mineral Veins in Bannerdale Crags (TGP Ziemba)
• Strontian Lead Mines (JG Landless)
• Vigra – Clogau – St David’s Mine Areas (GW Madoc-Jones)
• The Keld Literary Institute (WJ Craig)
• Mire Shaft, Grassington Moor (MC Gill)
• An Old Mining Law Suit of the 16th Century (JA Aked)
• Visit to Wheal Jane Tin Mine (J Hunter, B Sc.)
• An Account of the Accident at Wheal Agar (MC Gill)
• Synopsis – Clogau St David’s Gold Mine, Bontddu (WJ Madoc-Jones)
• Notes on Subterranean Temperatures in Metal Mines (RH Bird)
• Lead and Leases: Production from the Wanlockhead Mines 1710-1780 (WS Harvey & G Downs-Rose)
• A History of the Hebden Moor Lead Mines in the 19th Century (MC Gill)
• An Introduction to the Mines in the Isle of Man (J Landless)
• An Exercise in Mineral Exploration – Dartmoor 1974 (J Hunter, B Sc.)
• The Bubble Company (Justin Brook)
• The Weardale Lead Company Limited (Dr FW Smith)
• The Sacking of Francises by John Taylor 1841-42 (Mary & Gordon Tucker)
• Force Crag Today – October 1976 (V Landless)
• Who Discovered Devon Great Consols? (Justin Brooke)
• The Nenthead & Tynedale Lead and Zinc Company Ltd 1882-1896 (JK Almond)
• The Nenthead Lead Mines and works of the Vielle-Montagne Zinc Company 1913 (J Landless)
• The Phoenix United Mines, in the Parish of Linkinhorne, East Cornwall (R Shambrook)
• A Report on the Excavations at Chimney Shaft, Cockhill Mine (MC Gill & J McNeil)
• Castell Carndocan Gold Mine and Prince Edward Gold Mine (WG Jones)
• A Report on Excavations at the site of the 18th Century Lead Smelter at Pate’s Knowes, Wanlockhead
  (WS Harvey & G Downs-Rose)
• Source of Materials for the History of British Mining in the Archives of the Institute of Geological Sciences
  (JC Thackray)
• The Holyhead Breakwater, Quarries and Brickworks (WG Jones)
• Stannary Tales (Justin Brook)
• An Account of the NMRS Exploration at Sunside, Coldstones Hill, Pateley Bridge (A Finch)
• The Mineral Production Figures of Alston Moor (J Lawson)
• Buckden Out Moor Lead Smelting Mill (JM Dickinson)
• Copper Ore Statistics: Public Ticketings, Corwall 1814-1856, Swansea 1819-1856
  (Reprinted from Philips & Darlington’s Records of Mining & Metallurgy 1857)
• Hemerdon Ball – Rolling Again? (J Hunter)
• Bale Hills in Swaledale and Arkengarthdale (JL Barker)
• The Mineral Statistics and Lead and Zinc Mining on Alston Moor, Cumberland (R Burt, P Waite & M Atkinson)
• The Coalbrookdale Coalfield, Shropshire – Mineral Working and Land Reclaimation (IJ Brown)
• Notes on the Dangers, Location and Treatment of Old Mine Shafts (IJ Brown)
• Memories of a Collier in the Halifax Coal Mining District (J Aked)
• Preesall Salt Mines (V Landless)
• New Light on Llanfyrnach Lead Mine, Pembs (G Tucker)
• A Note on the Application of Photography to Mining (RH Bird)
• Extracts from the Minute Book of the North Hendre Lead Mining Co Ltd (R Bayles)
• Llanfair Mines Ltd, Llanfair Talhaiarn, Denbighshire (WG Jones)
• Blubberhouses Moor Lead Mine (MC Gill)
• Greenside Explored (V Landless)
• Greenside Mine: Ore Dressing c1900 – The Dam Disaster 1927 (PJ Challis)
• The Rebuilding of Two Smelting Hearths at Wanlockhead (WS Harvey & G Downs-Rose)
• The Mines of Littondale (MC Gill)
• Pumping Engines at the Leadhills Mines (WS Harvey)
• West Stonesdale Mine (JH McNeil)
• Geological Sections of Holyfield, Hudgill Cross Vein and Silver Bank Mines
  (T Sopwith)
• The Iron Mining Industry in Devon (M Atkinson, P Waite and R Burt)
• Hartsop Hall Mine 1980 (RE Hewer)
• Prys Mine (LO Tyson & RE Hewer)
• Survey of “Wood Level” at Brandlehow, Cumbria (RE Hewer)
• The Cornish Boiler (R Shambrook)
• Surviving Miscellany (RH Bird)
• Cornwall; Sites of Interest Old and New 1981 (J Brooke)
• Merstham Firestone Mines; an Interim Report (J Keating)
• The Wherry Mine, Penzance (R Shambrook)
• Mining, Methodism – Primitive and United, Bible Christian etc (R Shambrook)
• The Old Flockton Collieries c1772-1893 (J Goodchild)
• Mines, Smelt Mills and Works: Descriptions by an Edwardian Traveller (PCD Brears)
• The Snaefell Mine Accident 1897 (PJ Challis)
• An Account of a Mine Adventure by John Royal on the Gwydir Estate 1775-1784 (JS Bennett)
• The Jordanhill Coal Pits, Glasgow (BS Skillen)
• A Certain Freehold Mineral Estate known as Fox Oak Colliery (NA Chapman)
• An Introduction to the Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom 1845-1913 (R Burt & P Waite)
• The Duke’s Level, Grassington. A comment on John Taylor’s views (MC Gill)
• The Hurst Mining Field, Swaledale, Yorkshire (LO Tyson)
• Surviving Miscellany
• Editorial (RH Bird)
• William West of St Blazey (MW Cooke)
• John Taylor and Sons in Switzerland (R von Arx)
• White Grit Lead Mine (NA Chapman)
• Bannerdale Lead Mine (RE Hewer)
• Martholme Pit, Great Harwood (B Bond)
• Gillibrand Colliery, Parbold. A Late 18th Century Coal Mine (JM Virgoe)
• The Mechanisation of the Grassington Mines (MC Gill)
• Lumpsey Ironstone Mine (NA Chapman & SA Chapman)
• Messrs Boulton and Watt to Messrs Easterby Hall and Co (NA Chapman)
• Notes on 19th Century Coal Mining at Staveley, Derbyshire (NA Chapman)
• Vignette on “Elgar” (R von Arx)
• Birkside Copper Mine, Thirlmere, Cumbria (RE Hewer)
• The First Steam Engine on the Leadhills Mines (WS Harvey & G Downs-Rose)
• The Coal of Gladsmuir (WS Harvey)
• Illustration of Ore Sledges (R von Arx)
• NMRS Field Meeting, North Wales 1985
• Wire Rope and its Applications (RE Hewer)
• Editorial (RH Bird)
• Miner’s bargains (WS Harvey & G Downs-Rose)
• George Green Engineer and Entrepreneur 1825-1895 (SJS Hughes)
• Hillhead Colliery. South Brae of Campsie (BS Skllen)
• The High Mortality of British Metal and Slate Miners and Beliefs about the causes 1556-1904 (RA Williams)
• Caldbeck Fells Stationary (R von Arx)
• The Cannock and Huntingdon Sinking (NA Chapman)
• Uranium in the Isle of Man (DB Hollis)
• The Forgotten Iron Mines of Kirk Maughold, Isle of Man (DB Hollis)
• Mining Miscellany (A Austin)
• Forgotten Iron Mines of Kirk Maughold, Isle of Man, Recent Explorations (DB Hollis)
• Hydrocarbons in Sulphide Ore Deposits (DB Hollis)
• Small Mines and Trials around Ennerdale, Cumbria (RE Hewer)
• Notes on Mining Leats (RH Bird)
• Yorkshire Lead Mining – Before 1700 (MC Gill)
• The Ohio (Great East Baldwyn or Manx) Mine, The West Baldwyn Mine and the Abbeyland Mine, Isle of Man
  (DB Hollis)
• The Mining Parishes of East Buckland and Charles (PF Claughton)
• Langley Barony Lead Mine near Haydon Bridge, Northumberland (NA Chapman)
• Miners, Moonshiners and Mischief Galore (BS Skillen)
• Vignette on “Caegynon” (R von Arx)
• Forty Years of Mines and Minerals (DE Bick)
• The Mining of the rural districts of Campsie and Kilpatrick (BS Skillen)
• A Glimpse at North Hendre Mine (R von Arx)
• The Progress of Trade Unionism at the Leadhills Mines 1836-1914 (WS Harvey)
• Aspects of the Alum Mining industry about Glasgow (BS Skillen)
• My Life by George Boddy (M Street)
• Horses is Shropshire Mines (IJ Brown)
• Women Workers in Shropshire Mines (IJ Brown)
• Drainage, Water Supply, Soughs and other Tunnels in the Coalbrookdale Coalfield, Past and Present (IJ Brown)
• Miners, Coiners and Conjurers: Some Cornish Tales (BS Skillen)
• Slates amidst the bracken: an old Scottish Slate Quarry (BS Skillen)
• Ravenstonedale (NG Robinson)
• Ore Hearth Smelting (Voyage Metallurgique en Angleterre) (HM Martell & MC Gill)
• The brief life of Mellingloch Lead Mine (R von Arx)
• Sediment Hosted, Base Metal, Vein Mineralisation at Drws y Coed and Cwm Pennant, Snowdonia, North Wales
  (TB Colman)
• Mining Miscellany (RH Bird)
• A Glimpse at Cwm Brwyno Mine (R von Arx)
• Local Dreams: the early workings of the Brora Colliery (BS Skillen)
• Old Mines, Miners of Renfrewshire: glimpses of the past (BS Skillen)
• Mining and Proto-industrialisation (MC Gill)
• John Connell Delarue Bevan and the East Cornwall Silver Mining Company (J Bennett)
• Thomas Saunders Cave, Speculator Extraordinary (J Brook)
• They did it yesterday (RH Bird)
• A Glimpse at East Trevell Mine in Cornwall (R von Arx)
• A Glimpse at Cape Cornwall Mine (R von Arx)
• An 18th century Lead Smelt Mill at Blackhall, Hexhamshire, Northumberland (RA Fairbairn)
• Teeside Mining Company (NA Chapman)
• John Gibbons of Oswestry: An 18th century Capitalist (J Goodchild)
• A Lawsuit and a Miners Wages (WS Harvey)
• Miners or Crofters? (WS Harvey)
• The Castell and Nant y Creaiu Mines (SJS Hughes)
• The Diffusion of Ore Hearth Smelting Techniques from Yorkshire to the Upper Mississippi Valley Lead Region (MC Gill)
• The Eskdale Copper Mine (A Austin)
• The Mines of Eskdale (A Austin)
• Some 19th century comments on the Ennerdale Mines (A Austin)
• Swallow Holes and Mine Drainage in the Forest of Dean (CR Bowen)
• Editorial (RH Bird)
• Aygill Lead Mine, Stainmore, North Yorkshire (LO Tyson)
• Alston Moor Hushes (RA Fairbairn)
• Cost of Producing Lead From Sharpley Lead Mine, Northumberland, during the 18th century (RA Fairbairn)
• Work and Workings in Westminster Vein, Clywd (C Ebbs)
• Vignette on Nanty Mine (R von Arx)
• Lead Mining or Fishing (IB Richards)
• The Penrhyndeudraeth Lead Mining Company Ltd (J Goodchild)
• Nobody likes the Captain: Men of the Mines (BS Skillen)
• Herring Day, Plaguey Women and Pit Life (BS Skillen)
• Old Mines and Mine Masters of the Monklands (BS Skillen)
• Nant y Mwyn Mine, Llandovery, Dyfed (SJS Hughes)
• Yorkshire Smelting Mills Part 1 (MC Gill)
• The London Lead Company’s Yorkshire Mines: A New Assessment (LO Tyson & MC Gill)
• Editorial (HM Martell)
• Georgius Agricola 1494-1994 (HM Martell)
• Controversy and Contraction: The Water Dispute at the Leadhills Mines (WS Harvey)
• The Mines of Downholme Moor and Thorpe Edge, Swaledale (JL Barker)
• The East Layton Copper Mine in Yorkshire and its Cost Book (J Goodchild)
• The CB New Mill in Arkengarthdale – Some Photographic Evidence (JO Myers & TM Whitaker)
• Tynehead Lead Mining Company (NA Chapman)
• A Day at South Crofty Mine in 1944 (NJ Bullen)
• William Millett Thomas, Company Promoter (J Brook)
• False Hopes as New Wheal Speedwell (R von Arx)
• Wheal Lopes in Devon (R von Arx)
• 19th century Lead Mining on the North Side of the Derwent near Crooked Oak in South Northumberland (RA Fairbairn)
• Cleveland Drilling Machines (NA Chapman)
• Visit to a Lead Ore Mine (WS Harris)
• Yorkshire Smelting Mills Part 2: The Southern Dales and Lancashire (MC Gill)
• The first Coal Mines Inspectors (B Job)
• Editorial (HM Martell)
• Heath Colliery Co., West Bromwich, Staffs (NA Chapman)
• Mining and Smelting in the Marske Area, Swaledale (LO Tyson)
• The Restless Years: The Leadhills Company Ltd and the labour disputes at its mines 1903-1929 (WS Harvey)
• Carn Dochan, Regional, General and Economic History (SJS Hughes)
• John Robson’s Notebook: The Development of Rainton and Pittington Collieries in the 1820s (J Goodchild)
• Bales of Alston Moor, South Northumberland and Weardale (RA Fairbairn)
• Life and Essays of William Vivian, Cornish Mining Engineer, 1817-1879 (WDF Smith)
• Some Notes on the Hornby Castle Estate Coal Mining Sites (PJ Hudson)
• Haytor and Smallacombe in Dartmoor (R von Arx)
• Carmarthen United: An example of under-capitalisation in a mid-19th century lead venture (PA Claughton)
• East Snaefell Mine (R von Arx)
• Surrender Smelt Mill Flue (S Bassham)
• Editorial (HM Martell)
• Lamps and Candles (WS Harvey)
• Adventures in Coal in the South Durham Coalfield (J Goodchild)
• Sike Head Lead Mine, Ramshaw, Northumberland (NA Chapman)
• Futile Endeavours on the Lochs (R von Arx)
• Bournehills Colliery, Rowley Regis, Staffordshire (NA Chapman)
• The Stone Industry of Nidderdale – Part 1 Pateley Bridge (JG Blacker)
• The 19th century Wray Wood Moor Colliery and Mining Dispute (PJ Hudson)
• Vinette on Druid Mine in Devon (R von Arx)
• Some questions concerning the history of the Pikedaw Calamine Caverns, Malham, Yorkshire (JO Myers)
• The Darker Side of a Golden Era (C Seal)
• Notes on the Development of Bole Smelting (PF Claughton)
• Harald Bruff and the Greenhaugh Mining Co Ltd (MC Gill)
• Teaching Mining History (R Burt)
• The Sam Oon Stone (NMRS Records)
• The Stone Industry of Nidderdale Part 2 – Stone Uses (JG Blacker)
• A Glimpse at Snaefell Mine (R von Arx)
• Sir Bevis Bulmer: An Elizabethan Adventurer (LO Tyson)
• Gwynfynydd Gold Mine, Dolgellau, North Wales: A Review of History, Geology and Mining Activities
  (SC Dominy, RFG Phelps, MA Bussell & CL Guard)
• Accidents in the Flintshire and Denbighshire Lead Mines 1873-1914 (CJ Williams)
• The Melting, Fyning and Stamping Mylnis at Linlithgow (TK Meikle)
• Blakeley Hall and Bromford Collieries, Oldbury, Staffs (NA Chapman)
• Post mediaeval iron production in Nidderdale and an association with the Ingilby and Yorke Families
  (JG Blacker, M Barley & S Moorhouse)
• Geology and mining of complex narrow veins in south-west England: an example from South Crofty Tin Mine, Camborne, Cornwall (S Dominy, MA Bussell & GS Camm)
• The Smelting of Silver Ore from Hilderston Mine (R Smith & TK Meikle)
• A Lead Smelting Site at Haltwhistle Hill, Allendale (RA Fairbairn)
• Swan Bank Colliery, Halifax (M Roe)
• A Smelting Miscellany No.2 (R Lamb)
• Mortality in Cornwall (F Harris)
• Smelt Mills of the Yorkshire Dales – Keld Heads and Preston Mills (R Smith)
• Roofs of Nenthead Smelt Mill (RA Fairbairn)
• Kirk Michael Mine in the Isle of Man (R von Arx)
• The Jenkin Furnace at the New CB Mill, Arkengarthdale, Yorkshire (R Smith & S Murphy)
• Stotfield Burn and Brandon Walls Mines, 1872-1882 (RA Fairbairn)
• The Development of the Mickley Colliery (J Goodchild)
• Thomas Dodds – 18th century mining visionary or profiteer? (J Lawson)
• Weights and Measures used in the lead industry (MC Gill & WS Harvey)
• Frenchmen Student Engineers in Industrial Britain: A Preliminary List of Tours from the MS Register of Deposited Journals at the École des Mines, Paris (CS Briggs)
• The Burnley Coalfield (IA Williamson)
• Upper Adit – Cononley Lead Mine, Yorkshire (M Roe)
• Cononley – The Anatomy of a Mining Village (MC Gill)
• Company Formation in the 19th Century Slate Industry (A Bowman)
• Old Hill or Pearson’s Colliery, Rowley Regis (NA Chapman)
• The Rowley Hall Colliery, Rowley Regis, Staffordshire (NA Chapman)
• Recent Explorations in Scaleburn Vein, Nenthead (J Lawson)
• Smelting Mills of the West Pennines: Knock Smelt Mill (S Murphy & R Smith)
• Grassington Low Smelt Mill (M Roe, R Vernon & MC Gill)
• Introduction to the Archaeological Surveying of Mine Sites (M Roe)
• Allendale Mill Flues and Chimneys (RA Fairbairn)
• Researching Mining History in the UK (HM Martell)
• Assessment of Early Lead Working Sites in the Yorkshire Dales by Geophysical Prospection
  (K Hamilton, JG McDonnell & A Schmidt)
• Lake District Slate in the mid 18th Century (J Goodchild)

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