Mining: Ayrshire’s Lost Industry: An Illustrated History of the Mines and Miners of Ayrshire and Upper Nithsdale: Lanarkshire’s Mining Legacy, The Paisley Rocketeers

In a previous review (RR 98/29‐30) we gave a specific welcome to local history publications from this enterprising publishing house. These three further titles all continue the pattern of those noticed earlier, two of them dealing with coal‐mining and one on a rather esoteric, not to say completely unlikely, topic. Unlike the previous Ayrshire mining title reviewed, a history of a single colliery compiled by a local history society, the two volumes under review here take a broader view. They are, in fact, compilations of original photographs and postcards with detailed captions and a short introductory text; as such they...