West Cumberland Coal, 1600-1982/83
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- Author(s) Wood, Oliver
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1988
- Pages 377pp
- Publisher Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society
- Place Published Carlisle
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- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Scholarly chronological and detailed account of the development of the industry in Cumbria with much on the role of the Lowther landowning family and their industrial and mining enterprises; much on Curwen family estates; much on particular collieries. Extensive appendix [pp299-360] gives, inter alia, output statistics for selected collieries; coal shipped from particular ports; employees and productivity, 1874-1946; wages; Lonsdale income from coal; etc; etc