Fuller's earth - 100 years of mining in Bath

Bath Chronicle, The | May 21, 2009 | Copyright

Twenty years ago a man walking his dog near the former Fuller's Earth works noticed some pieces of paper blowing in the wind.

These proved to be documents of the Fullers' Earth Union which children had found in the loft above the former office and which they had been using to light fires.

The dog walker informed the Museum of Bath at Work and in the following days some 100,000 documents consisting of letters, time cards and plans were recovered and sorted.

So begins Neil Macmillen's introduction to his book A History Of The Fuller's Earth Mining Industry Around Bath which he has written with ...

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