The industries of the Malvern Hills : great hope of the Canterbury Province / Richard and Bruce Maffey.

"Covers the exporation for mineral wealth; the development and demise of coal mining; pottery works; lime-burning and marble quarrying in the South Malvern area"--Unnumbered page 1.

Machine generated contents note: Black Diamonds -- A Vexing Matter for the Colonists -- Edward Jerningham Wakefield, 1820 - 1879 -- The Ford Brothers -- The Practical Men : Gold and Diamonds -- Geological Exploration -- The Malvern Tramways -- The White Cliffs Pottery, 1872 - 1885 -- The Glentunnel Brick, Tile, Terra-Cotta and Pottery Works -- The Homebush Colliery and Tramway -- The Brockley Mines -- Other Early Malvern Hills Coal Mines -- The Ford and Ogdon Pottery Works -- The Marble Quarry, 1876 -- The Wallsend Colliery, South Malvern, 1876 - 1879 -- The White Cliffs Limekiln, 1877 -- Lime Burning, 1878 - 1915 -- The Industrial Association, 1879 -- The Search for Copper, 1884 -- The Last Malvern Hills Coal Mines -- McSkimming Industries, 1924 - 1983 -- The White Cliffs Sand Mine, 1917 - 1990.

"This book is one of a two part companion series covering the history of the opening up of the South Malvern region... Companion book one [was] The White Cliffs Branch Railway"----Unnumbered page 1.

Includes bibliographical references.