The Mining Industry in the Huddersfield District
By D. A. Wray

PREFACE

Within the past few years, the officers of the Geological Survey have been engaged in a re-survey of the Huddersfield district, and during the progress of the work, Dr. D.A. Wray has shown must interest in and appreciation of the work going on in the geological section of the Museum, and in many ways rendered valuable and practical assistance.

Dr. Wray has also collected much scattered information about the history of the mining industry in this district, and has incorporated this in an account contributed to The Naturalist (July, 1929). Much remains to be done in future before a full and detailed history can be written, but the information here brought together is not only of local interest, but such a valuable contribution to the history of local economic geology, that with the permission of Sir John S. Flett, Director of the Geological Survey, Dr. Wray has consented to an issue of the paper in this form, and we have to thank the Editors and Publishers of The Naturalist for their assistance in providing the reprints.

We are also indebted to Mr. J.E. Armitage for supplying the tracing from which the Pit Plan has been prepared; to Messrs. J. Morton & Sons for permission to obtain photographs, by Mr. C. Mosley, of the Salendine Nook Pottery; also to Mr. W.H. Sikes for taking many photographs relating to local mining.

T.W. WOODHEAD

Tolson Memorial Museum,
Huddersfield,
June, 1929.