Title: Burlington Blue-Grey: A History of the Slate Quarries, Kirkby-in-Furness
Author: R. Stanley Geddes
Edition: First edition, 1975
Format: Hardcover, with dust jacket
Publisher: Privately published by the author, Kirkby-in-Furness
ISBN: 9780950478500 (ISBN-10: 0950478504)
Language: English
Pages: —
Dimensions: —
Publication Date: 1975
Genre: Industrial History, Local History (Cumbria and Furness)
Condition: Good
Description:
Burlington Blue-Grey is the history of the Burlington slate quarries at Kirkby-in-Furness on the Furness peninsula, written and published by R. Stanley Geddes. The quarries have produced a distinctive blue-grey slate for more than four hundred years, and large-scale production began in the early nineteenth century. The book follows the quarries and the community of Kirkby that grew up around them, and the cover shows an aerial photograph of the workings. It is a useful local reference for readers of Cumbrian and Furness history, industrial and quarrying history, and building materials. The book was privately published and issued in a small run, and a second edition followed in 1991. This copy is the 1975 hardcover in its dust jacket, which shows wear at the spine head.
Title: Burlington Blue-Grey: A History of the Slate Quarries, Kirkby-in-Furness
Author: R. Stanley Geddes
Edition: First edition, 1975
Format: Hardcover, with dust jacket
Publisher: Privately published by the author, Kirkby-in-Furness
ISBN: 9780950478500 (ISBN-10: 0950478504)
Language: English
Pages: —
Dimensions: —
Publication Date: 1975
Genre: Industrial History, Local History (Cumbria and Furness)
Condition: Good
Description:
Burlington Blue-Grey is the history of the Burlington slate quarries at Kirkby-in-Furness on the Furness peninsula, written and published by R. Stanley Geddes. The quarries have produced a distinctive blue-grey slate for more than four hundred years, and large-scale production began in the early nineteenth century. The book follows the quarries and the community of Kirkby that grew up around them, and the cover shows an aerial photograph of the workings. It is a useful local reference for readers of Cumbrian and Furness history, industrial and quarrying history, and building materials. The book was privately published and issued in a small run, and a second edition followed in 1991. This copy is the 1975 hardcover in its dust jacket, which shows wear at the spine head.
