The story of a Pennine weaving shed from its inception in 1914 to demolition in 1979

This volume focuses on the Gribbon family and the history of the clothworking trade in Coleraine town and the Killowen area of the town. The subjects include an overview of the Irish clothworking industry and how the Killowen workforce were employed in the trade until the close of the 1900s

Outside of yoga class, we don’t pay too much attention to the air we take in every day. Long one of the essential elements to life on earth—from the atmospheric composition that gave life to the coal-forming forests some three hundred million years ago to the air that fuels our most important technologies today—we think little of its incredible properties. In this innovative cultural and scientific history, Peter Adey takes stock of the great ocean of air that surrounds us, exploring our attempts to understand, engineer, make sense of, and find meaning in it. Adey examines how humans have managed and manipulated air as a natural resource and, in doing so, have been taken to the limits of survival, brought to high-altitude mountain peaks, subterranean worlds, and the troughs of new moral depths. Going beyond how vital air has been to our philosophical, scientific, and technological pursuits, he also reveals the way that the artistic and literary imagination has been lifted through air and how, in air, cultures have learned to express and inspire each other. Combining established figures such as Joseph Priestley, John Scott Haldane, and Marie Curie with unlikely individuals from painting, literature, and poetry, this richly illustrated book unlocks new perspectives into the science and culture of this pervasive but unnoticed substance.

Earth's political powers are ensnared in a spiralling descent towards destruction. It is an unavoidable Catch 22 dilemma. The world is environmentally exhausted, and time has run out for mankind. Humanity's only hope is to establish a viable colony on the moon. It must encompass an environment of miniature ecosystems, which are totally removed from the devastation that has become Earth's inescapable future. The success of the Lunar Colony angers many power brokers on earth. Resentment, jealousy, and fear become the key motivators that ultimately threaten the survival of the colony. Simon and his heroic team, stand alone in the harsh vacuum of space. Their mission is to defend the Lunar Colony against those who conspire to destroy it . . . at any cost!

This is the fifth volume of the articles published in the Barnoldswick and Earby times. Local history, contemporary comment and lots of pictures. This is readable history and is published mainly so that readers can have a permanent record of the work. 225 pages and over 120 illustrations. An ideal bedside book or present.

Includes the transactions of the Society of Medical Officers of Health.