South Gloucestershire Mines
Research Group

Links

Here are some of the relevant links to mining and quarrying in our area that we found useful. Note that we can't vouch for the content of these sites:

Local Links:

• Bristol Industrial Archaeology Society (BIAS)
• Avon Industrial Buildings Trust
• Ram Hill Colliery
• Ram Hill Colliery Leaflet
• Ram Hill Photos
• Walk the Bristol and Bath Railway Path
• Friends of Troopers Hill
• Golden Valley
• Clearwell Caves
• Frampton Cotterell Mining
• Harry Stoke Colliery and a History of Stoke Gifford
• South Gloucestershire Council - Museums and Heritage
• Living Easton
• Yate Heritage Centre
• Kingswood Heritage Centre
• Avon Local History and Archaeology (ALHA)
• Bristol Record Office
• Gloucestershire Archives
• Wiltshire & Swindon Record Office
• Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
• Gloucestershire Society for Industrial Archaeology
• Gloucestershire Local History
• Bristol Civic Society
• Bristol Industrial Museum
• Memories of Bristol
• Fishponds Local History Society
• Gloucestershire Population Tables 1801-1901
• Frenchay Village Museum
• Thornbury Museum
• Radstock Museum
• Nailsea & District Local History Society
• Twerton History
• Trade Union Ancesters (Somersetshire Miners Association)
• Forest of Dean Coal Mining pages
• Forest of Dean Local History Society
• Thornbury local history
• Histories of Bristol Companies
• Hades Caving Club
• A vision of South Gloucestershire 1801-2001

National Links:

• National Association of Mining History Organisations (NAMHO)
• British Association for Local History (BALH)
• This years NAMHO Conference
• The Newcomen Society
• International Stationary Steam Engine Society
• British Mining Database
• Coal Mining History Resource Centre
• The online database for U.K. Mine Exploration
• Subterranea Britannica
• The Association for Industrial Archaeology
• Old Maps
• Mining History Network
• Mining History Information

Books and Book Shops:

• Book - Lectures Delivered at the Bristol Mining School, 1857
• Shop - Moore Books

If there are any other links you know of or would like added, then please contact the webmaster via the Contact Us page. Equally if you have found a broken link or have any concerns about the ongoing suitablity of the links, please let the Webmaster know.

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