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Books can be purchased from Roger Gosling, SGMRG Books, 51 Greenhill Road, Alveston, Bristol, BS35 3NA.  Cheques made payable to SGMRG.

Ring 01454 883607 if you are buying more than one book; as postage may be less than the total of the p&p shown for each book.  Also, ring if you would like to arrange to collect in person.

	Title:	Notes on an Old Colliery Pumping Engine 1791, by William Thomas Anderson
	Description:	Excerpt from the transactions of the Institute of Mining Engineers, Vol.LII, Part 4, pages 396-420 & 423-445
	Publisher:	Institute of Mining Engineers, London, England (1917)
	Date:	1917, Reprinted 2017
	Price:	£15.00 + £3.00 p&p
	Total:	£18.00
	Title:	Killed in a Coalpit: Lives of the Kingswood Colliers, by D P Lindergard
	Description:	This book charts the accidents of the coal miners who worked the historic Kingswood Colliery of South Gloucestershire.
	Publisher:	SGMRG
	Date:	August 2016
	Price:	£15.00 + £3.50 p&p
	Total:	£18.50
	Title:	Bevin Boy’s Sketch Book, by Keith Greenslade
	Description:	A personal account by Keith Greenslade of his times in the mines during WWII
	Publisher:	Driven by Steam
	Date:	2007
	Price:	£6.00 + £0.75 p&p
	Total:	£6.75
	Title:	Brandy Bottom Colliery Historical Research Report, by Steve Grudgings
	Description:	Details the restoration work carried out by the AIBT and the history of the Colliery
	Publisher:	Avon Industrial Buildings Trust
	Date:	May 2013
	Price:	£7.00 + £2.00 p&p
	Total:	£9.00
	Title:	Celestine-one of the old Mineral Industries of Yate, by H. Lane and D. Hardwick. ISBN:9780957233126
	Description:	This book documents the history of Celestine mining in South Gloucestershire
	Publisher:	South Gloucestershire Mines Research Group
	Date:	January 2013
	Price:	£5.00 + £1.50 p&p
	Total:	£6.50
	Title:	Jarrit Smith’s 1751 Newcomen Engine, by Steve Grudgings
	Description:	This book details the building of Jarrit Smith’s 1751 Newcomen Engine at Coalpit Heath Colliery
	Publisher:	SGMRG
	Date:	July 2016, 2nd edition
	Price:	£10.00 + £2.00 p&p
	Total:	£12.00
	Title:	Frog Lane Colliery-Sixty Years On
	Description:	Commemorating the closure of Frog Lane Colliery, the last deep pit in the Bristol coalfield
	Publisher:	SGMRG and Yate & District Heritage Centre
	Date:	2009
	Price:	£12.00 + £2.50 p&p
	Total:	£14.50
	Title:	Ten Years On
	Description:	The first ten years.  A set of essays on different aspects of the group.
	Publisher:	SGMRG
	Date:	March 2012
	Price:
	Total:	Free download
	Title:	Kingswood Coal by Matt Southway, David Hardwick and Steve Grudgings
	Description:	Details of Kingswood Coal-the coal mines in Bristol & South Gloucestershire
	Publisher:	Edited by SGMRG from original BIAS publications
	Date:	May 2015, 5th edition, originally published 2008
	Price:	£6.00 + £1.50 p&p
	Total:	£7.50
Title: The History and Industrial Archaeology of the Stream Engines of Coalpit Heath Colliery Company Description: This book tells the story of the engines and the men that drove and maintained them. It sets out to tell the technical, social, historical and archaeological stories of the stationary engines usedby the Coalpit Heath Colliery Company between 1800 and 1949 Publisher: SGMRG Date: 2015 Price: £15:00 + £2.50 P&P Total: £17:50