Metals and Mining

Dr. Richard Pococke on tin-mining in Cornwall, 1750

Mrs. Abiah Darby on developments in the Darby ironworks at Coalbrookdale, 1708-1763

A Description of Birmingham and its Industry from the Diary of Lady Shelburne, 1766

Barthelemy Faujas de Saint-Fond’s impressions of Birmingham, 1784

Edward Baines on the Development of the Steam Engine by Watt and Boulton, 1835

Arthur Young on the industrial development of Birmingham, 1791

Barthelemy Faujas de Saint-Fond on the Newcastle coal-mines, 1784.

Evidence of J. Buddle before the Select Committee of the House of Lords on the state of the coal trade, 1829

Mining Commissioner Seymour Tremenheere’s account of the miners and iron workers of Bedwelty and Merthyr Tydvil in 1839

Dr. John Allen on the mining population in Northumberland and Durham in 1840