1862 London Exhibition: Catalogue: Class I.: Brown and Jeffcock

40. BROWN and JEFFCOCK, Civil and Mining Engineers, Barnsley.

Coals and ironstones from South Yorkshire coal fields; geological and mining maps and sections.

Specimens of the following coals are exhibited, viz., Melton Field, or Wathwood, or Wood Moor; Cannel coal from same bed; Woolley Silkstone, or Abdy, or Winter; High Hazel, or Kent's thick coal; Barnsley, or Elsecar, or Darnall; Flockton; Parkgate; Thorncliffe thin; Silkstone four feet; Silkstone; Halifax or Ganister bed.

Ironstones from the South Yorkshire coal-field, as used at the Milton and Elsecar, Parkgate, and Thorncliffe Iron Works. At the Parkgate Iron Works, near Rotherham, armour plates for the new ships of war are made in large quantities.

MAP Of the SOUTH YORKSHIRE COAL-FIELD, showing the outcrops of the coals, directions of the faults, and the situation of the various collieries and iron works.

Sections showing the relative position of the coals and ironstones worked in this district.

One class of coals is very valuable for iron and steel making, and for locomotive and marine steam-engines; other kinds are suitable for gas-making and domestic purposes, and are well known in the London and other markets, as Flockton, Silkstone, Barnsley House coal, etc.

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