Wed, Aug 28
|The Stripey Badger
Book Launch With David Joy
Local Historian and Author David Joy will be joining us on Wednesday 28th August, 2pm to launch his latest book "Digging to Doom - All Hope Lost At Grassington Mines"
Time & Location
Aug 28, 2024, 2:00 PM
The Stripey Badger, 7 The Square, Grassington, Skipton BD23 5AQ, UK
About the event
Local Historian and Author David Joy will be launching his latest book "Digging to Doom" with us on Wednesday 28th August.
About Digging to Doom:
Digging with hope but dread of failure was ever present at Grassington’s once great centre
of lead mining. Digging on windswept moors to discover the richest veins of lead lasted for almost 300 years. Miners ventured deep underground by candlelight to wield pickaxes and shovels and survive the explosive
uncertainties of gunpowder.
Doom was a fear that if anything strange happened down the mine, it was a portent of death and disaster