Miners and Mining in the New Mill Valley (2014) by Pamela Cooksey & Alan Tinsdeall
Miners and Mining in the New Mill Valley was written by Pamela Cooksey and Alan Tinsdeall, and published in 2014 by Holme Valley Civic Society.
A PDF version of the book can be freely downloaded from the Holmfirth Local History Group's website:
Details
- paperback
- 151 pages
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Contents
- Acknowledgements (page i)
- Preface (page iii)
- List of Mines (page v)
- Coal mining
- Introduction (page 1)
- Early mining (page 24)
- Coal Mines and Mining Employers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (page 26)
- Coal Pits and Coal Production during the nineteenth century (page 62)
- Mining Employees in the nineteenth century (page 73)
- Underground Working Conditions in the nineteenth century (page 97)
- “Maisters and Men” (page 116)
- Mining during the twentieth century (page 123)
- Appendix 1 Sources (page 145)
- Appendix 2 Glossary (page 146)
- Appendix 3 List of Names (page 148)