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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> It has not and never had the appearance which is regarded as typical of an industrial area although lead mining here has been widespread and has an unbroken history extending back at least eighteen hundred years. There are literally thousands of mines much of the county underground being a maze of shafts and passages made by the miners of the past whilst the record of Derbyshire mines includes the celebrated Mill Close which became in this century the richest lead producer in the British Isles. This book records something of the life and work of the lead miners of their special laws which were first written down in 1288 and were outside the Common Law of England as well as of the methods of working the mines and of draining them for the dry limestone uplands were often flooded under- ground making this and lack of ventilation in small workings ceaseless difficulties. It tells also of how the miners fought for what they believed were their rights sometimes carrying their prolonged disputes through court after court. Apart from larger mining companies working miners cold own their own small underground venture and through- out the history of Derbyshire lead these were particularly numerous. The miners’ life was their rewards small or non-existent but onally they discovered a very rich or win and then their gamble hard work and per arded.