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The Coal Mining Industry in Barnsley, Rotherham and Worksop
Ken Wain
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Description for The Coal Mining Industry in Barnsley, Rotherham and Worksop
Paperback. Once employing thousands, with many collieries dotted all over the area, coal mining in the East Midlands has all but gone. Once tens of thousands depended on mining. Ken Wain tells the story of mining, its triumphs and disasters. Num Pages: 192 pages, 192. BIC Classification: 1DBKEMN; 1DBKEYK; KNAT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 173 x 249 x 13. Weight in Grams: 556.
Barnsley, Rotherham and Worksop sit on top of the Midland coalfield, stretching from Nottingham into Yorkshire and the mining industry in this area once supported tens of thousands of jobs in collieries dotted across the landscape. In this book, the culmination of some forty years of research, author Ken Wain tells the story of the mining industry in the area from the primitive mines of the medieval period to the rundown of the industry and the end of deep mining in Britain. The Coal Mining Industry of Barnsley, Rotherham and Worksop tells the life stories of ... Read more
Barnsley, Rotherham and Worksop sit on top of the Midland coalfield, stretching from Nottingham into Yorkshire and the mining industry in this area once supported tens of thousands of jobs in collieries dotted across the landscape. In this book, the culmination of some forty years of research, author Ken Wain tells the story of the mining industry in the area from the primitive mines of the medieval period to the rundown of the industry and the end of deep mining in Britain. The Coal Mining Industry of Barnsley, Rotherham and Worksop tells the life stories of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Chalford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781445639659
SKU
V9781445639659
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1
About Ken Wain
Ken Wain spent 38 years working underground in the Sheffield area and has amassed one of the best collections of images of the coal mines of South Yorkshire, Derbyshire and North Nottinghamshire. He was instrumental in the creation of a memorial to the 106 men of Markham Colliery who lost their lives in three separate disasters, the last in 1973. ... Read more
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