| Description | of Messrs Dancroft & Kenrick [i.e. John P. Kenrick], Civil & Mining Engineers, Manchester : being commissioned reports on various undertakings at home and abroad. U.K. enterprises include : Hocklay Hall and Whateley Colls. and Brick Works Ltd.; Swannington Coll, Leicester; Lancs. Rubber Co.; Waen and Nerquis Colls, Mold; Lancs & Yorks. Railway Co.; Lancs Firebirch Co. Ltd., Grotton, Oldham; Flimby & Broughton Moor Fire Brick Co. Ltd.; Maryport; Ffrith Coal and Fireclay Co., Wrexham; S. Wales Primrose Coal Co., Swansea Valley; Foxdenton Mines, E. Lancs; Welsh Crown Spelter Co, Llanrhychwyn, co. Caernarfon (p.p.347 - 360); Wiregill Deep Ltd., Middleton-in-Teesdale, Cumberland; Minera Lime Co.; Old Broughton Coll., Brymbo; Pontybodkin Coll.; N. Western Spelter Syndicate Ltd, Manchester; Bodfari Iron Ore Mine; etc. of particular interest is a survey of the flooded and abandoned mines of the Denbighshire Coalfield (p.p. 259 - 321) giving schedules of collieries working in 1869, 1879 and 1903).
Overseas reports cover enterprises in Norway, Sweden, USA, Spain and Canada (Yukon, 1900). |