Snailbeach Lead Mine Bibliography

Books

Brook F & Allbutt M - "The Shropshire Lead Mines", 1973, Moorland Publishing

Brown I - "The Mines of Shropshire", 1976, Moorland Publishing Co

Burt R et al - "The Mines of Shropshire & Montgomeryshire", 1990, University of Exeter Press

Davies T - "Engine Houses of the Mines of South Shropshire", 1969, Privately Printed

Gaydon A - "Victoria County History of Shropshire", 1968, Vol. viii

Hall T - "Report on the Shropshire Mining District", 1919, privately printed

Liscombe & Co - "The Mines of Cardiganshire, Montgomeryshire & Shropshire", 1989, S Hughes Mining Services

Moissenet M - "Annales des Mines", 1862, Paris

Morton G - "Geology of the Shelve Mining District", 1869

Pearce A et al – “Snailbeach Lead Mine”, 2008

Pearce A et al - "Mining in Shropshire", 1995, Shropshire Books

Price J et al - "Never on a Sunday", 2000, Shropshire Mines Trust

Tonks E - "The Snailbeach District Railway", 1974

Journals

Adams D - "First Supplement to Account No.2" 1968, Shropshire Caving & Mining Club Account No.4

Adams D - "Survey of the South Shropshire Lead Mining Area", 1962, Shropshire Caving & Mining Club Account No.2

Brook F & Allbutt M - "The Snailbeach Lead Mine", 1969, Industrial Archaeology Society Journal No.2, Portsmouth College of Technology

Brook F & Allbutt M - "The Snailbeach Mining Company 1767-1911", 1969, Northern Cavern & Mines Research Society Memoirs

Davies T et al - Mining Remains in South West Shropshire", 1994, Shropshire Caving & Mining Club Account No.18

Davies T - "Plans & Sections of the Metalliferous Mines of South West Shropshire",1972, Shropshire Caving & Mining Club Account No.10

Davies V - Brief Account of the Geology, History & Mechanisation of the Snailbeach Mine", Northern Cavern & Mines Research Society Memoirs

Fowler R - "Geology of the Shelve Mining Region", 1994, Shropshire Caving & Mining Club Account No.21

Hair P - "Industrial and Domestic Violence in Shropshire in the 1820s", 1983, Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological Society No.64

Haszard R - "The Metalliferous Mining Area of Shropshire", 1964, Proceedings British Speleological Association No.2

Heathcote J - "Survey of the Metal Mines of South West Shropshire", 1979, Shropshire Caving & Mining Club Account No.12

Holding S - "Snailbeach - Recent Explorations", 1992, Shropshire Caving & Mining Club Account No.15

Machin, R - "Short List of the Depths worked in the Lead Mines of Shropshire", 1985, Newsletter of the Hereford Caving Club, 39, p.23.

Moissenet M - "Lead Mining & Smelting in the Snailbeach District", 1862, Mining & Smelting Magazine

Pearce A - "Metal Mines of Shropshire", 1997, Shropshire Caving & Mining Club Account No.22

Pearce A - "Metalliferous Mines of Shropshire Vol.1 - Gazetteer", 1994, Shropshire Caving & Mining Club Account No.20

Pearce A - "Pre-Roman mining in Shropshire", 1991, Shropshire Caving and Mining Club Journal, pp.5-6.

Turner E - "Lead Mining in Shropshire", 1943, Transactions of the Caradoc & Severn Valley Field Club No.12

Shropshire Caving & Mining Club Journal (Old Series) 1971/72-1980

Shropshire Caving & Mining Club Journal (New Series) Nos.1-5 1993-1997

Shropshire Caving & Mining Club Yearbook 1961/62-1966/67

Miscellaneous

Dines H - "The West Shropshire Mining Region", 1958, Bulletin of the Geological Survey No.14

Geol Survey - "Barytes & Witherite", 1922, Geological Survey Special Report Vol. II

Geol Survey - "Lead & Zinc Ores in the Pre-Carboniferous Rocks of West Shropshire & North Wales", 1922, Geological Survey Special Report Vol. XXIII

Geol Survey - "Wartime Pamphlet No.46", 1945, Geological Survey

Morriss R - "The Powder Magazine, Snailbeach Mine", Report

Smith B & Dewey H - "Special Reports on the Mineral Resources of Great Britain, Vol.23, Lead and Zinc Ores in the Pre-Carboniferous Rocks of West Shropshire and North Wales", 1986 [Reprint of Geological Survey 1922 Edition], Mining Facsimiles, Sheffield.

Last revised: 18 July 2008