12. Bibliography


Primary Sources

Unpublished Documents

Beauchamp MSS (Somerset Record Office, DD/BE)
Bristol Miners’ Association Agent’s Annual Report (undated, but apparently from the 1930s: University of Wales Archives, Swansea, SWCC: MNA/NUM/2/4)
Handel Cossham’s notebook, 1851-1853 (Bristol Record Office, 9492/16a); prospectus for the sale of Kingswood and Parkfield collieries, 1900 (Bristol Record Office, 9492/49)
Hippisley of Ston Easton MSS (Somerset Record Office, DD/HI)
Jarrett MSS (Somerset Record Office, DD/BR)
National Coal Board records (Somerset Record Office, A/BDM & DD/NCB)
Rees-Mogg MSS (Somerset Record Office, DD/RM)
Somerset Collieries Ltd, prospectus for the issue of £300,000 4% First Mortgage Debenture Stock, 1935 (Bristol Record Office, 9492/14(e))
Somerset Miners’ Association papers (Bristol University Library, DM443)
Strachie MSS (Somerset Record Office, DD/SH)
Waldegrave MSS (Somerset Record Office, DD/WG

Official Publications

Annual Publications and other Periodicals

Abstract of Labour Statistics of the United Kingdom
Annual Abstract of Statistics
Annual General Report upon the Mineral Industry of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Annual Report of HM Chief Inspector of Mines
Annual Report of the Secretary for Mines
Coal Mining Industry Annual Statistical Statement
List of Mines in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Isle of Man
Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Mines and Quarries: General Report and Statistics
Ministry of Fuel and Power Statistical Digest
National Coal Board Annual Report and Statement of Accounts
Reports of the Inspectors of Mines
Statistical Abstract for the United Kingdom
Statistical Summary of Output, and of the Costs of Production and Profits of the Coal Mining Industry
(quarterly)
Summaries of the Statistical Information Contained in the Reports of Her Majesty’s Inspectors of Mines

Royal Commission Reports


Children’s Employment Commission, First Report of the Commissioners, Mines (PP 1842, XV)
Children’s Employment Commission, Appendix to First Report of the Commissioners, Mines, Part II, Report and Evidence from Sub-Commissioners
(PP 1842, XVII)
Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Several Matters Relating to Coal in the United Kingdom, Volume I
, C 435 (1871: HMSO: London)
Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Several Matters Relating to Coal in the United Kingdom, Volume II
, C 435-1 (1871: HMSO: London)
Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Several Matters Relating to Coal in the United Kingdom, Volume III, Report of Committee, Statistics of Production, Consumption and Export of Coal
, C 435-2 (1871: HMSO: London)
First Report of the Royal Commission on Coal Supplies, Volume I, The Report
, Cd 1724 (1903: HMSO: London)
First Report of the Royal Commission on Coal Supplies, Volume II, Minutes of Evidence and Appendix
, Cd 1725 (1903: HMSO: London)
Supplement to the First Report of the Royal Commission on Coal Supplies, Containing Plans, Curves and Diagrams, Volume III
, Cd 1726 (1903: HMSO: London)
Second Report of the Royal Commission on Coal Supplies, Volume I, The Report
, Cd 1990 (1904: HMSO: London)
Second Report of the Royal Commission on Coal Supplies, Volume II, Minutes of Evidence and Appendices
, Cd 1991 (1904: HMSO: London)
Supplement to the Second Report of the Royal Commission on Coal Supplies, Containing Plans and Diagrams, Volume III
, Cd 1992 (1904: HMSO: London)
Final Report of the Royal Commission on Coal Supplies, Part I, General Report
, Cd 2353 (1905: HMSO: London)
Final Report of the Royal Commission on Coal Supplies, Part II, Report of Sir William T Lewis on the Available Resources of District A (South Wales, Monmouthshire, Forest of Dean, Bristol and Somersetshire)
, Cd 2354 (1905: HMSO: London)
Final Report of the Royal Commission on Coal Supplies, Part X, Minutes of Evidence
, Cd 2362 (1905: HMSO: London)
Final Report of the Royal Commission on Coal Supplies, Part XI, Appendices
, Cd 2363 (1905: HMSO: London)
Final Report of the Royal Commission on Coal Supplies, Part XII, Supplement Containing Plans and Diagrams Referred to in the Evidence
, Cd 2364 (1905: HMSO: London)
Coal Industry Commission. Volume I. Reports and Minutes of Evidence on the First Stage of the Inquiry
, Cmd 359 (1919: HMSO: London)
Coal Industry Commission. Volume II. Reports and Minutes of Evidence on the Second Stage of the Inquiry
, Cmd 360 (1919: HMSO: London)
Coal Industry Commission. Volume III. Appendices, Charts and Indexes
, Cmd 361 (1919: HMSO: London)
Report of the Royal Commission on the Coal Industry (1925), Volume 3. Appendices and Index.
(1926: HMSO: London)

Other Official Publications


Bristol and Somerset Coalfield Regional Survey Report (1946: HMSO: London)
Catalogue of Plans of Abandoned Mines. Gloucestershire (nd: HMSO: London)
Catalogue of Plans of Abandoned Mines. Somerset (nd: HMSO: London)
Coal Mining. Report of the Technical Advisory Committee, Cmd 6610 (1945: HMSO: London)
Financial Position of Coalmining Industry, Coal Charges Account, Cmd 6617 (1945: HMSO: London)
Preliminary Notes on the Application of Part II of the Coal Mines Act, 1930, to the Coalfields of Great Britain (1931: HMSO: London)
Report of the Departmental Committee on the Use of the Guss in Somerset Mines, Cmd 3200 (1928: HMSO: London)
Reports to Her Majesty’s Secretary of State for the Home Department on the Dean Lane Colliery Explosion, C 4929 (1887: HMSO: London)
Reports to the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Home Department on an Explosion which Occurred at the Malago Vale Colliery, Bristol, on the 31st August 1891, C 6571 (1892: HMSO: London)
Report to the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Home Department on the Circumstances Attending the Explosion which Occurred at Malago Vale Colliery, Bristol, on the 15th March 1895, C 7727 (1895: HMSO: London)
Reports to the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Home Department on the Circumstances Attending an Explosion which Occurred in the Timsbury Colliery, on the 6th February 1895, C 7774 (1895: HMSO: London)

Other Publications

Annual Publications

Colliery Guardian Guide to the Coalfields
The Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory
The Stock Exchange Year Book
The Stock Exchange Official Intelligence
The Stock Exchange Official Year-Book

Directories

Harrison Harrod & Co’s Bristol Post-Office Directory and Gazetteer, with the Counties of Gloucestershire and Somersetshire (1859: Harrison Harrod & Co: London)
E R Kelly (ed) (1875: Kelly & Co: London) The Post Office Directory of Somerset and Bristol
Kelly’s Directory of the County of Somerset
Kelly’s Directory of Somersetshire and Gloucestershire, with the City of Bristol
(1889: Kelly & Co: London)
Mathews’s Annual Bristol Directory and Commercial List
Morris & Co’s Commercial Directory and Gazetteer of Somersetshire with Bristol
(1872: Morris & Co: Nottingham)
The New History, Survey and Description of the City and Suburbs of Bristol…
(1794: W Matthews: Bristol)
John Wright & Co’s Bristol Directory
(John Wright & Co: Bristol)
J Wright & Co’s Bristol and Clifton Directory
(J Wright & Co: Bristol)

Newspapers

Bristol Evening Post
Bristol Times and Mirror
The Times
Western Daily Press

Other Publications

John Anstie (1873: Edward Stanfield: London) The Coal Fields of Gloucestershire and Somersetshire, and their Resources
John Billingsley (1797: John Billingsley: Bath) General View of the Agriculture of the County of Somerset with Observations on the Means of its Improvement
B Donn (1769: B Donn: Bristol) Map of the Country 11 Miles around the City of Bristol
Fred Flower (1990: Millstream Books: Bath) Somerset Coalmining Life
G W Green (1992: London: HMSO) British Regional Geology, Bristol and Gloucester Region, Third Edition
George Clementson Greenwell (1899: The Quarry Publishing Co: London) The Autobiography of George Clementson Greenwell
G A Kellaway & F B A Welch, British Regional Geology, Bristol and Gloucester District, Second Edition (1948: HMSO: London)
James McMurtrie (1911) “On a Boring at Puriton, near Bridgwater, in Search of Coal South of the Mendip Hills,” Proceedings of the Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 57, pp. 25-53
Miners’ Memories (Bedminster and Ashton) (nd: CLASS: Bristol)
W Morgans (1884: John Wright & Co: Bristol) A Survey of the Bristol Coal-field
Fred Moss (1986: Bristol Broadsides: Bristol) City Pit
The Nailsea and Clapton Coalfields: A Report on the Conditions of the Mines and Shafts (1980: Woodspring District Council: Weston-super-Mare)
Jonathan Presto (1884: John Heywood: Manchester) Five Years of Colliery Life; or, The Adventures of a Collier Boy in a Somersetshire Coal Mine: A Narrative of Facts
W J Wedlake (1958: Camerton Excavation Club: Camerton) Excavations at Camerton, Somerset
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