Britain's Lost Mines: The Vanished Kingdom of the Men who Carved out the Nation's Wealth

From the acclaimed author of Britain's Lost Cricket Grounds and Britain's Lost Breweries, comes a journey underground to the mines that built the nation and defined a century. Covering the length and breadth of the country: from the coal mines in Ashington, Northumberland to the Salt mines in Devon, Chris Arnot has taken his notepad and geordie lamp deep under the hills to give us a glimpse of a world that has closed down. Whether down the last deep working iron-ore mine in Europe, or being insulted by possibly the rudest parrot in Britain, whether it is slate, lead, arsenic or copper, Britain's Lost Mines tells the story of a lost industrial heritage and the dying of a community that was the backbone of Great Britain.