THE STORY OF BIDEFORD BLACK

"Attempt what is not certain.  Certainty may or may not come later.  It may then be a valuable delusion. ”  Richard Di...

chapel park development site, april 2013 (p ward 2013) As the Show & Tell day at the Burton in March drew to a c...

I have written the following story as it might have been, having talked in my research to two miners both of whom were extremely h...

If you follow the seam of Bideford Black east up over the cliff at Greencliff you might be lucky enough to notice ...

Many thanks again to Gerald Ford and Ron Pither for a pleasant morning spent wondering down memory lane – well ‘Paint Mines Lane’ ...

Ex-Bideford Black miner Gerald Ford sent this excellent account to the blog about his early years at the Chapel Park processing pl...

Ex-miner Ron Pither brought this drawing into the Burton to share with us that he has spent his time making. It shows the ground plan of the...