I graduated from Strathclyde University with a BSc in Mechanical Engineering in the mid 1980s. Steam turbines were my passion and I got a job at GEC Turbine Generators in ...
Amington Colliery was sunk in 1862 by Gibbs and Canning of Glascote down to the Seven Feet seam. By 1892, they had extracted all the coal immediately to the north ...
Baddesley Colliery was sunk in 1850 in an area of Baxterley Common after the Stratford Dugdale family had acquired the land and mineral rights of Baxterley Hall in 1848. The ...
When I started working at the Warwickshire Museum in 1999, casual conversations with members of the local geological community revealed a popular theory concerning the landscape and (relatively) recent geological ...
