There are many sources of information used to compile this site, including printed publications, brochures, informal documents, photographs, newspaper articles, other web sites etc. and we have attempted to list all published documents below, regardless of the extent of information sourced.
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Bibliography - Printed Publications
Ref. No. Title ISBN Sub-Title Author Date Publisher
001 A Profile History of Mount Kembla K.C. Stone 1984 Peel Valley Printery
002 A Railway History of the Illawarra JLN Southern 1978
003 BHP Collieries Handbook
004 Black Diamonds History of the Bulli District, N.S.W. William A. Bayley 1956
005 Blue Haven 0 9597203 0 8 History of Kiama Municipality William A. Bayley 1959 Weston & Co
006 Dapto Bicentennial Programme History of Dapto Dapto C of Commerce 1988 City & Civic
007 Dapto Oral History Third Volume 0 646 18347 8 Wayne Davis Ed. 1994 Dapto Senior Citizens
008 Earliest Illawarra 0 909164 05 3 by its Explorers & Pioneers W.G. McDonald Ed. 1966 Illawarra Historical Society
009 Early Illawarra 0 949776 11 4 An Australia 1838 Monograph Henderson & Henderson 1983 ANU
010 Geology & Mineral Resources of the Southern Coalfields L.F.Harper F.G.S. 1915
011 Green Meadows History of Shellharbour Municipality William A. Bayley 1959 Halsted Press
012 Growing up in the Illawarra 0 86418 011 X A Social History - 1834 - 1984 Mitchell & Sherington 1984 Woll. University
013 Illawarra - Australia at its best. 0 949726 0 1 X IRIS 1981 Weston & Co
014 Illawarra Heritage 0 9592480 0 5 Environmental Heritage Committee Stephen Dovers Ed. 1983 Sth Coast Printers
015 Land Between Two Rivers 0 9590887 0 9 A historical & pictorial survey of Shellharbour Municipality Derbyshire & Allen 1984 Shellharbour Council
016 Mine & Quarry Mechanisation
017 My Balgownie Pers. Mems. of Childhood in Balgownie Frank Ryan 1980
018 Port of Wollongong 0 9598811 9 0 C.W. Gardiner-Garden 1959 Illawarra Historical Society
019 Reminiscences of Illawarra Alexander Stewart 1894 Illawarra Historical Publications
020 The Garden of New South Wales 0 909164 17 7 A History of Illawarra & Shoalhaven Arthur Cousins 1994 Weston & Co
021 The Mount Kembla Disaster S.Piggins & H. Lee 1992
022 The Old Dapto Smelting Works Historical Soc.
023 The Pioneer Kerosene Works 0 909164 00 2 at American Ck (Mt Kembla) A.P.Fleming 1967 Illawarra Historical Society
024 The Town at the Cross Roads 0 9598373 1 0 A Story of Albion Park Stan Thomas 1975 Weston & Co
025 Urban Illawarra 0 909752 30 0 Ross Robinson Ed. 1977 Sorrett Publishing
026 Wollongong History Highlights 0 9591262 0 1 2WL & IMB Soc. 1983 Sth Coast Printers
Graphics & Photographs from the World Wide Web
Black Diamond-Net Home Page
University of Wollongong Library http://www-library.uow.edu.au/
A German Coal Mining Site (In German) http://www.abenteuer-bergbau.de/
Graphics & Photographs from Printed Publications
Wollongong - Spirit of Achievement 1990 Positive Vision Communications Barry Smith
At the Coalface 1998 CFMEU (Mining & Energy Division) Fred Moore, Paddy Gorman, Ray Harrison
The Mt. Kembla Disaster 1992 Sydney University Press Stuart Piggin & Henry Lee
The Collieries Handbook 1993 BHP Steel Collieries Division Compiled by R.Arnold, P. Gosling, L.Griffiths, R.Moore & R. Spence
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