New Book - Aberllefeni Slate Quarry - Jon Knowles

[moorebooks]

Aberllefenni Slate Quarry - A history of the last underground slate working in Wales. Jon Knowles, A4, Hardback, 280printed pages £35.00

In Jon's own words "the book is a culmination of over 15 years exploration underground and archival research" It's a credit to Jon's expertise and determination it's full of his own colour photographs, with black and white historical record photographs. He has also provided a lot of detail of the industry itself with the workshops and machinery supported diagrams and drawings , there are also plans of the mine . Plus a nice touch an aerial photograph with a labelled photo on opposite page tus not detracting from the original. I could easily go on raving about this volume but it is really an excellent piece of original work

Mike

 

[Cantclimbtom]

Torn between a huge desire to buy it, and the very real danger if the Mrs discovers I bought another book

 

[ChrisJC]

I'm reading my signed copy at the moment. It's very good.

Chris.

 

[tomferry]

Torn between a huge desire to buy it, and the very real danger if the Mrs discovers I bought another book

This is why I don’t have a joint card Tom .

 

[moorebooks]

I will have them available at the NAMHO conference next week - let me know if there are any books you would like to look at too

Mike

 

[Tangent_tracker]

Does it mention who's responsible for unprotected twin and earth in a damp mining environment? Only joking, looks a good read!

 

[moorebooks]

Does it mention who's responsible for unprotected twin and earth in a damp mining environment? Only joking, looks a good read!

The research, photographs historic and modern makes it probably the best book I ever seen regarding an underground slate quarry

Mike