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Alun John is an ex-professional pilot, retired engineer, onetime motorcycle instructor of instructors and active environmental campaigner. Swansea, born, bred and based but with work and interests that have taken him to every part of Wales, by aeroplane, car, motorcycle and on foot. Sometime Lecturer at Coleg Harlech Summer Schools he was for many years a Guest Field Lecturer at the Snowdonia National Park Environmental Studies Centre, Plas Tan y Bwlch. He is a past Chairman of South West Wales Industrial Archaeology Society, Swansea Art Society, Friends of Tan y Bwlch and President of South Wales Advanced Motorcyclists.
As an acknowledged authority on Welsh Slate he has written a number of books on its various aspects and his association with tinplate including a Directorship of E.H.Brooke Ltd led to writing about that industry.
A love of the Welsh countryside (which he has spent a lifetime defending) and a deep knowledge of its history and folklore led to a fruitful partnership with photographer Jean Napier in the production of the ‘Rivers’ books
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» LANDSCAPE & LEGENDS
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A TALE OF TWO RIVERS
Second Edition
128 Pages
ISBN 0-86381-989-3
23 x 19
This book brings together evocative images by Jean Napier and tales, both ancient and modern, by Alun John Richards that take you on a journey the length of the Dyfi and the Mawddach from source to sea
£12.00 |
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TWO SNOWDONIA RIVERS
144 Pages
ISBN 978-1-84527-206-1
23 x 19
Jean Napier's unique images are complemented by Alun John's text as they follow the 'Silver Threads' of the Glaslyn & the Dwyryd
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THE RIVER CONWY
SOURCE TO SEA
136 Pages
ISBN: 978-1-84527-288-3
23 x 19
Fact and fable of Snowdonia's mightiest river with Jean Napier's images and Alun's
text.
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» INDUSTRY
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FRAGMENTS
OF MINE & MILL IN WALES
128 Pages
IBSN 0-86381-812-9
25 x 21
A reminisce of some of the industries that once thrived
in Wales. About 200 illustrations, many in colour, show some of
the relics that have now vanished, and others, still with us, that
are either odd, unexpected or just plain peculiar.
£9.50
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TINPLATE IN WALES
152 Pages
ISBN 978-1-84524-125-4
18 x 12
Chronicles an industry that from a small part of a small country whose products reached and benefited the entire world.
£7.50
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» TRANSPORT
RAILS & SAILS OF WELSH SLATE
160 pages
IBSN 978-1-84524-174-2
18 x 12
Draws together the story of the ‘Great Little Trains of Wales
’ and the fleets of ships that carried slate to the ends
of the earth
£7.50
THE SLATE RAILWAYS OF WALES
212 Pages
ISBN 0-86381-689-4
21 x 14.5
Starting with Penrhyn Railroad of 1801, this book
gives an account of the proliferation of railways which accompanied
the 19th century expansion of slate working in Wales.
£5.95
» SLATE
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GAZETEER OF SLATE QUARRYING IN WALES
352 Pages
ISBN 1-84524-074-X
18 x 12
A complete update and expansion with a great deal of new material, of the famous and long out of print
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SLATE QUARRYING IN CORRIS
148 Pages
ISBN 1-84524-08
18 x 12
A new edition, revising, expanding and updating the original popular account of the 500 year history of slate working in the Dulas Valley
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SLATE
QUARRYING IN WALES
232 Pages
ISBN 3-84527-026-6
18 x 12
A brand new, totally revised edition. A narrative history of slate working in Wales from
the earliest times, through its great nineteenth century heydays
up to the end of the twentieth century.
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WELSH SLATE CRAFT
104 Pages
ISBN 1-84527-029-0
21 x 14.5
A brief illustrated account of the history, the methods and the people that roofed the world with Welsh Slate. It includes mentions of Enamelled Slate that graced the homes of peasants and princes, of Writing Slates that made universal literacy possible and of the future of slate, particularly as an artistic medium. Welsh Craft Series
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CREFFTWYR LLECHI
104 Tud
ISBN 1-84627-034-7
21 x 14.5
Adroddiad darluniadol byr o hanes, dulliau, a`r bobl a fu`n toi`r byd â Llechi Cymreig. Mae`n cynnwys cyfeiriadau at Lechi Enamel a addurnai gartrefi bonedd a gwreng, am Lechi Ysgrifennu a wnaeth lythrennedd byd-eang yn bosibl, ac am ddyfodol llechi, yn arbennig fel cyfrwng artistig. Cyfres Crefftau Cymru.
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CWM GWYRFAI
368 Pages
IBSN 0-86381-897-8
18 x 12
In conjunction with Dr, Gwyfor Pierce Jones. An account of the SLATE QUARRIES adjacent to the route of the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railway and its successor, the recently revived Welsh Highland Railway. Using mainly previously unpublished text and photographs, it traces the fortunes of slate working in this most interesting area
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THE SLATE QUARRIES OF PEMBROKESHIRE
196 Pages
ISBN 0-86381-484-0
18 x 12
Carrying forward the work of the late Professor Gordon
and Mrs Mary Tucker, this is a brief account of the almost 100 slate
quarrying sites in south - west Wales and their railway connections.
£5.50
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Now out of print A GAZETEER OF THE WELSH SLATE INDUSTRY, SLATE QUARRYING AT CORRIS, SLATE QUARRYING IN WALES (1st Ed), THE SLATE REGIONS OF NORTH & MID WALES
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