Catherine Bailey, author of Black Diamonds

Pit-folk and Peers – Volume I

David P. Waddington

The Remarkable History of the People of Fryston: Volume I –  Echoes of Fryston Hall (1809-1908) The West Riding pit village of Fryston was once famously referred to as ‘a mining Shangri-la’. Nestling on one side against the mighty River Aire and hemmed in by colliery buildings on the other, this small, isolated community of twelve terraced streets wa..