Fifty Years Sunshine Miners – Opencast Coalmining in Britain 1942-1992

FIFTY YEARS SUNSHINE MINERS – OPENCAST COALMINING IN BRITAIN 1942-1992 – Peter N Grimshaw

This book book both deepens and broadens our understanding of the British Opencast coal-mining business.  From the founding fathers, the frontiersmen and the visionaries who established the business. This is not just a story of British Coal opencast and is major contractors, but the crew below.  The drillers, the machine manufacturers and the disposal point contractors.

Illustrated throughout with black & white and colour photographs of the men and machines at work.

FORMAT: Softcover, 210mm 296mm 112 pages..