WRC Bibliography

Bibliography / prosopography

Updated 6 January 2016. Includes items relating to waggonways, plateways, early railways in general and also some related mining history of the west Nottingham area.

Author	Title & web link if available	Description
John New (WRC member)	Wollaton or Broseley? - the gap narrows.	A paper presented to the Fifth Early Railways Conference about the background to the first recorded waggonway and included in the conference proceedings volume. The paper also revisited Huntington Beaumont's operation of the Wollaton coal mines suggesting earlier interpretations of it as reckless mismanagement were flawed. Published in Early Railways Vol 5, Six Martlets Publishing. 2014.
	400 years of English railways - Huntingdon Beaumont and the early years. Pendragon Publishing	Comprehensive article in Backtrack Magazine (Vol 18 No 11 - November 2004) about the Wollaton Waggonway (or Wagonway) and the builder of it - Huntington Beaumont. Waggonway also referred to occasionally as the Strelley Tramway.
	Huntingdon Beaumont	Biographical details on this Site.
SLS Early Railways Section index	SLS- Early Railways section	Self explanatory. Stephenson Locomotive Society (SLS) Index page to Early Railways Section
Original list supplied by Keith Hunt (WRC member)	SLS - Early Railways Time Line	Self explanatory - an early railways time line, last reviewed and updated March 2007.
C J Bowen Cooke	SLS - British Locomotives	Extract from part of Bowen Cooke's book British Locomotives published in 1894 covering the very early steam locomotives used in Britain. Bowen Cooke was a former CME of the LNWR.
Richard Green	Locomotives in Profile	A page about the history of the early steam locomotive covering the period from 1802 to 1825. Of relevance as these early locomotives originally worked on the latter day waggonways /wagonways as they were evolving into railways.
Unknown. (No author details on Site so cannot be credited here.)	Waggonway maps and lists for Northumberland & Durham	Self explanatory. A Site with very comprehensive maps of the railways and waggonways of Northumberland, Durham and Cleveland. Recommended due to its very comprehensive content. Fortunately no longer a Geocities hosted Site so the former problem of intrusive and irritating pop-ups etc is no more!! (Link repaired & updated 20 May 2010)
Dr Michael Lewis	Early wooden railways	Comprehensive study of the development of early railways with full section about the Wollaton Waggonway. (Out of Print) First published 1970, Routledge Kegan and Paul. ISBN 0 7100 7818 8
Dr Michael Lewis	Overview of the events of 1604	The ER3 Conference papers were initially issued on a subscription only basis but the publisher's are to issue a short reprint run. The book is fully recommended by the WRC Webmaster and includes a chapter covering 1604. Publishers flyer for the reprint.
Burke's Peerage.	Burke's Peerage	The author of the Beaumont details on this Site used as reference a paper copy of this British Aristocratic pedigree chart volume. However a "lite" on-line version can be accessed for free or a full version subscribed to.
Dr Richard Smith	Huntingdon Beaumont - Adventurer in Coal Mines	Dr Smith did his history PHD on Elizabethan & Stuart period Nottinghamshire Coal mining. AVICM is an article on Huntingdon Beaumont in a long out of print work. Renaissance and Modern Studies Vol 2 1958. P115 - 153. Pub Univ of Nottm.
Dr Richard Smith	England's first rails - a reconsideration	A review and update of the then published information on the waggonways at Wollaton and Broseley. Renaissance and Modern Studies 1960. P119 - 134. Pub Univ of Nottm
Dr Richard Smith	Early Coal Mining Around Nottingham 1500 - 1650.	Comprehensive, but currently out of print, book. Pub -Univ of Nottm. 1989.
Edward T Beaumont JP	The Beaumonts in History. AD 850 - 1850	A book first published around 1929 and covering the family history of the Beaumont family. Downloadable in DF format. The genealogist who referred me to the Site initially did point out there were some errors. The entry for Huntingdon* within it is wrong on several counts. However link passed on but all information should be checked against other sources too. (*Original page 130/1 of printed book pdf page 138/9)
Beaumont family webSite	A Site about Beaumonts	A Site about Beaumonts with some downloads including the book link above.
Yorkshire Archeological Society	Yorkshire Wills Series	The Yorks. Wills Series is to be found amongst the Record Series of the Yorkshire Archeological Society volumes. Regrettably as the information was forwarded to us we don’t know the volume number. Most big public libraries would have this series, esp. in Yorks., or a Univ. with a good history dept.
Graham Crisp and John New	The Wollaton Sough	This sough drained the same mines worked by Huntingdon Beaumont. Published - Transactions of the Thoroton Society. Vol 109 2005. - The course of a Tudor coal mine drainage "sough" at Wollaton and Lenton, Nottinghamshire, 1552.
Charles E Lee	Early Mining Transport	Durham Mining Museum - Transposed text plus the illustrations from an article originally published in the June 1938 edition of "Colliery Engineering" covering primitive early railways, in Germany.
Charles E Lee	Early North East Coast Railways - I	Durham Mining Museum - Part I of a pair of transcribed articles plus the illustrations originally published in the June 1939 edition of "Colliery Engineering" covering primitive early railways, in England and their relevance to the North East coalfield.
Charles E Lee	Early North East Coast Railways - II	Durham Mining Museum - Part II of a pair of transcribed articles plus the illustrations originally published in the July 1939 edition of "Colliery Engineering" covering primitive early railways in the North East coalfield.
Carolyn Dougherty	English Plateways	A comprehensive and learned overview of the development of the English Plateway. (Link repaired - author changed web hosts - May 2010)
Bertram Baxter	Stone Blocks & iron Rails	As it's name suggests a book covering aspects of the earliest railways. Pub David & Charles 1996 (Out of print)
M B Donald	Elizabethan Copper	The History of the Company of Mines Royal 1568 - 1605. Published by Red Earth Publications - 1994. ISBN 0 951 2946 8 7.
Helen Harris	Book on the Haytor Granite tramway.	"The Haytor Granite Tramway and Stover Canal" Peninsular Press ISNB 1 - 872640 -28 - 1 Excellent guide to walking what remains of the Haytor Tramway. (Added May 2010) The book was in print at this time and could be bought from the National Park Visitor Centre at Haytor adjacent the surviving Haytor Quarry Site..
Wikipedia / unknown	Haytor Granite Tramway	Wikipedia's page on the Haytor Tramway.

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