INDUSTRIAL HISTORY
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A GUIDE TO THE TAFF VALLEY FROM QUAKERS' YARD TO ABERFAN
Written by Mary E. Gillham; Clive Thomas; John Perkins.
Stock no. 1828857
Published by Merthyr Tydfil and District Naturalists' Society.
1st
1979.
Very good condition.
Depicting what may still be seen of the Industrial History, Geology, Natural History and Following the courses of the ancient Penydarren Tramway, Glamorgan Canal and the River itself. B/w photos. B/w illustrations. Cardwraps. 66 pages. Covers are lightly browned. Grubby margin marks to last page (not bad). Else contents clean.
LADY CHARLOTTE GUEST: THE EXCEPTIONAL LIFE OF A FEMALE INDUSTRIALIST
Written by Victoria Owens.
Stock no. 1828606
Published by Pen & Sword.
1st
2020.
Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
When impoverished artistocrat Lady Charlotte Bertie married wealthy Welsh ironmaster John Guest of Dowlais in 1833, her relatives looked on with dismay. Charlotte championed Welsh culture and translated the Mabinogion into English. She also taught herself John's business from the inside. When John died in 1852, she replaced him as head of the ironworks. This book traces the ardent, creative years of her first marriage, explores her determination - widowed - to preserve John's legacy, and observes her growing devotion to the scholarly Charles Schreiber, her sons' tutor. Black cloth boards, silver title to spine. B/w illustrations. x and 214 pages including index. ISBN: 9781526768810. Lower corners of boards bumped else a clean copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly creased at bumped corners.
- Categorised in:
- BIOGRAPHY
- HISTORY
- INDUSTRIAL HISTORY
- WALES
THE THAMES & SEVERN CANAL
Written by Humphrey Household.
Stock no. 1328425
Published by Amberley Publishing.
2009.
Nearly fine condition.
Pictorial card wraps. B/w photos. ISBN: 9781848680357. Corner tips of pages and covers very slightly rubbed/creased.
- Categorised in:
- TRANSPORT
- CANALS
- INDUSTRIAL HISTORY
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COAL MINING IN LUNESDALE
Written by Philip John Hudson.
Stock no. 1828309
Published by Hudson History.
1st
1998.
Slightly better than very good condition.
An introductory study into the hsitory of coal mining in the valle of the River Lune and its tributaries in North West England. White & blue cardwraps. B/w photos and maps. ISBN: 0953364305. SIGNED by the author to front endpaper (no dedication). Two diagonal marks to lower edge of text block. Bookplate to front endpaper. Contents otherwise clean.
- Categorised in:
- INDUSTRY
- INDUSTRIAL HISTORY
- COAL
- MINING
- NORTH WEST UK
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THE EARLY IRON INDUSTRY OF FURNESS AND DISTRICT
Written by Alfred Fell.
Stock no. 1828308
Published by Frank Cass & Co. Ltd..
1st thus
1968.
Very good condition.
Cass Library of Industrial Classics No. 21. Facsimile of original edition published in 1908. An Historical and Descriptive Account from the Earliest Times to the End of the 18th Century with An Account of Furness Ironmasters in Scotland, 1726-1800. Burgundy cloth boards, Black title label with gilt title to spine, gilt title to front. Spine lightly faded. Corners lightly rubbed. Initials and date in ink to front endpaper. Text block slightly grubby.
- Categorised in:
- INDUSTRY
- INDUSTRIAL HISTORY
- CUMBRIA
- SCOTLAND
- FACSIMILE
THE NEW REGARD NUMBER 24
No author listed.
Stock no. 1327862
Published by The Forest Of Dean Local History Society.
2010.
Nearly fine condition.
Large format. Pictorial card wraps. B/w photos. The Journal of the Forest of Dean Local History Society. Small price sticker to front cover.
THE NEW REGARD NUMBER 29
No author listed.
Stock no. 1327861
Published by The Forest Of Dean Local History Society.
2015.
Nearly fine condition.
Large format. Pictorial card wraps. B/w photos. The Journal of the Forest of Dean Local History Society. Light crease to lower corner of front cover else fine.
THE NEW REGARD NUMBER 25
No author listed.
Stock no. 1327859
Published by The Forest Of Dean Local History Society.
2012.
Nearly fine condition.
Large format. Pictorial card wraps. B/w photos. The Journal of the Forest of Dean Local History Society. Minimal rubbing to lower corners else fine.
THE NEW REGARD NUMBER 25
No author listed.
Stock no. 1327858
Published by The Forest Of Dean Local History Society.
2011.
Nearly fine condition.
Large format. Pictorial card wraps. B/w photos. The Journal of the Forest of Dean Local History Society. Slight lifting of laminate to lower corner of front cover.
THE NEW REGARD NUMBER 24
No author listed.
Stock no. 1327857
Published by The Forest Of Dean Local History Society.
2010.
Fine condition.
Large format. Pictorial card wraps. B/w photos. The Journal of the Forest of Dean Local History Society.
THE NEW REGARD NUMBER 22
No author listed.
Stock no. 1327856
Published by The Forest Of Dean Local History Society.
2008.
Nearly fine condition.
Large format. Pictorial card wraps. B/w photos. The Journal of the Forest of Dean Local History Society. Minimal rubbing to corners and a small price label to front cover.
THE NEW REGARD NUMBER 20
No author listed.
Stock no. 1327855
Published by The Forest Of Dean Local History Society.
2005.
Nearly fine condition.
Large format. Pictorial card wraps. B/w photos. The Journal of the Forest of Dean Local History Society. Slight evidence of removal of a small label to top edge of front cover. Else a fine copy.