WEEP MOTHERS WEEP The Wood Pit Exposion, Haydock, 7th. June 1878.

IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBERANCE More on the Wood Pit Explosion, Haydock.

WITH HEARTS SO LIGHT The Queen Pit explosions, Haydock, 1868 and 1869.

THE ROMANCE OF COAL Richard Evans and Co, Haydock.

MINING DEATHS in GREAT BRITAIN Tabulated lists of mines deaths from 1850 to 1914.

THE UNFORTUNATE COLLIERY A portrait of a Lancashire colliery in the 1860's.

CHILDREN IN THE MINES Report of the Royal Commission, 1842. Lancashire.

MINING MEMORIES The mines of St. Helens.

THE COMPLEAT COLLIER Probabally the first mining books published in Great Britain.

HELL UNDER HAYDOCK by Ian Winstanley. The story of the Lyme Pit explosion, February 1930

PARKSIDE COLLIERY by Geoff Simm. A personal tribute to the men who worked at the colliery written by one of them.

THE LEIGHS AND HAYDOCK COAL by Geoff Simm. A detailed account of coal mining in Lancashire in the early 19th. cent.

From:- LANDMARK COLLECTOR'S LIBRARY:-

COLLIERIES OF SOUTH WALES : 1 by John Cornwell.

and

COLLIERIES OF SOMERSET AND BRISTOL by John Cornwell.

 OTHER MINING BOOKS

 The Miners' STRIKE Day by Day by Brian Elliot.

COLLIERIES OF NORTH EAST LANCASHIRE by Jack Nadin

DUMBRECK: a private inquiry by Matt O'Neill

CHILDREN OF THE DARK by Allan Gallop Life and Death Underground in Victoria's England.

My Ancestor was a Coalminer by David Tonks

YORKSHIRE MINERS Britain in Old Photographs by Brian Elliott

YORKSHIRE'S FLYING PICKETS by Brian Elliott and Bruce Wilson

THE ORRELL COALFIELD, Lancashire 1740-1850 by D Anderson

BALMAIDENS Women in the mines, quarries and clay works of Cornwall and Devon. by Lynne Mayers

YORKSHIRE MINING VETERANS IN THEIR OWN WORDS. A new Book from Brian Elliott

BLAST FROM THE PAST by Andy Paterson

PIT VOICES Vol.1 and now Vol.2 Yorkshire Mining Vetrans in their Own Words with BRIAN ELLIOTT  

Lancashire History

THE DIARY OF ROGER LOWE - Ashton-in-Makerfield's Samuel Pepys