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The Industrial History of Mojacar, Garrucha, Bedar and Los Gallardos
Hi,
My name is Andy Devey and I am a retired Chartered Mining Engineer living near Bedar. For the last 2 years I have been working full time on a book about the industrial history of this area together with a Spanish co-author Juan Antonio Soler Jodar and between us it is the product of over 20 years of combined research. The book is very close to completion.
We have a Spanish publisher that wishes us to demonstrate the market prior to deciding on the number of copies to print for the English and Spanish editions.
We present the local Green ways and mining walks and the first detailed research of the Iron ore mines at Mojacar, the copper mines in Sierra Cabrera and the Iron ore mines in Garrucha and so much more.
We have the detailed history of the railway facilities at Mojacar and the mineral loading activities between the beach and the steam ships anchored 300 m off shore. We present newly discovered photos of the steam locomotives.
Further, we have discovered photographs of the original house at Marina de la Torre from the 1890's prior to it being converted into the Alegria Palacio Mojacar in 1907.
We cover the human story and also the technical aspects of the mines, cables, railways, foundries, mineral wash plants and ship loading activities.
The finished work will be large format (31 cm x 24 cm) high quality paper, with over 300 pages and more than 550 photos, maps and drawings etc. About 50 % of the photographs are from the 19th and early 20th centuries. There are over 20 expert colour renditions of some of the more dramatic historical photographs.
Our goal has been to present a tribute to over 130 years of hardship and effort for all those involved at the time.
I have enclosed a photograph showing the scope of our work. It includes email contact for those that wish to be included on the list to buy a copy of the book.
I do hope that our work is of interest to members of this forum.
