Nuneaton & Bedworth Coal, Stone, Clay and Iron

by Peter Lee

On the edge of the Warwickshire coalfield, coal had been mined in Nuneaton since the fourteenth century and the town was a centre for quarrying and brick-making too. Coal had been mined in the Stockingford and Griff area of Chilvers Coton for five centuries, and by the mid-1860s, new capital, increasingly efficient mining methods, together with the building of the railways, brought about a golden bonanza of coal production in this area of Warwickshire...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848689705
• ISBN13: 9781848689701
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.5" x 9.2"