North Cliffs, Camborne, Cornwall, 1910 - Postcard
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Spouse popped into A Darn Good Yarn to pick up yarn I need to finish a project, and they gave him one of their Trevithick Day freebies - cute stitch markers, a "handmade with love" label, and a yarn needle.
They're the sweetest, friendliest local yarn store folk we've met down this way and we love supporting them.
I'm hoping I'll get to have a peek at their rainbow wall while I'm here, which has 116 shades of one of their DK yarns!
If you're in Camborne tomorrow for Trevithick Day, there's going to be a Fair Trade pop-up shop at my sister's bagmaking studio - The Make Space on Cross Street.
One of this year's Fair Trade themes is tea - hence the bunting!
Cross Street is usually a great place for watching the parades too as it's less busy than Trelowarren Street.
#890 Allen Buckley (ed) - Journal of the Trevithick Society No 23. The Trevithick Society, Camborne, 1996. #JAllenBuckley #Cornwall #Kernow #Mining #Camborne #RichardTrevithick #TheTrevithickSociety #BookOfTheDay
#878 Basil Brown (ed) - Camborne Festival Magazine 1976. Camborne Festival Committee, Camborne. #BasilBrown #Cornwall #Kernow #Camborne #CamborneFestival #BookOfTheDay
Free Library & Council Buildings, Camborne, Cornwall, 1912 - Meeksown RP Postcard
Model Railway Shop announces new model wagon http://dlvr.it/TJKBF9 #Camborne #Guildford #KernowModelRailCentre #ModelRailways
Model Railway Shop announces new model wagon http://dlvr.it/TJK8XQ #Camborne #Guildford #KernowModelRailCentre #ModelRailways
Wesley Chapel and Chapel Street, Camborne, Cornwall, 1911 - WH Smith RP Postcard
#838 Michael Tangye - Carn Brea: A Brief History and Guide. Dyllansow Truran, Redruth, 1981, 1st Edition. #MichaelTangye #DyllansowTruran #CarnBrea #Cornwall #Redruth #Camborne #BookOfTheDay
Victorian Cornwall’s leading sector: metal mining
There was no question about Cornwall’s leading economic sector in the mid-1800s. In terms of income, productivity and employment it was metal mining. The early 1860s marked the peak of Cornish mining. Deep copper mining had broken out of its eighteenth-century heartland west of Truro in the 1810s, first to mid-Cornwall in the 1810s and then further east in the 1830s and 40s, where it joined earlier smaller tin mining ventures. At the same time, the predominantly tin mining concerns of the St Agnes, Helston and St Just districts continued to employ a large number of miners.
The mining landscape of the Central Mining District – Wheal Grenville looking east along the Great Flat Lode in 1904In 1861 30 per cent of men aged 15 to 69 were enumerated in the census of that year as working on and in mines. This includes surface workers, enginemen, mine smiths, mine clerks and others, as well as the iconic underground tributer. A map of the relative distribution of these men clearly indicates the districts most affected by mining – west Cornwall from Perranporth to St Just, mid-Cornwall around the Hensbarrow granitic outcrop and east Cornwall (where it had spilled over the Tamar into west Devon in the 1840s.)
Mine relics at Caradon Hill near Liskeard, site of a copper mining boom in the 1840sFew of Cornwall’s 212 parishes were wholly untouched by mining; a large block in north Cornwall made up the main non-mining district while other non-mining parishes were to be found along the south coast. But of the over 29,000 miners in 1861 over a quarter (7,453) lived in just four parishes – Camborne, Illogan, Redruth and Gwennap. These four comprised the Central Mining District. They accounted for more than twice the number of miners at work in east Cornwall for example, the relative importance of the latter being exaggerated by the lower population density of the area.
The role of mining is therefore perhaps better illustrated by a map of the absolute number of miners, which more clearly portrays the mining districts of Cornwall. Here it is.
#Camborne #Gwennap #Helston #Illogan #miners #Redruth #StAgnes #StJust
#828 J.G.D. Clark (ed) - Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society for 1951: Part 1. The Prehistoric Society, Cambridge, 1951. @PrehistoricSociety #ThePrehistoricSociety #GrahameClark #Archaeology #Cornwall #Camborne #Gibraltar #BookOfTheDay
North Cliffs, Camborne, Cornwall, c.1905-10 - Postcard
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Henry Berriman's Shop, Fore Street, Camborne, Cornwall, 1905 - WJ Bennetts RP Postcard
Greetings From Camborne, Cornwall, 1907 - Milton Glazette Postcard
#748 Basil Brown (ed) - Camborne Festival Magazine 1975. Camborne Festival Committee, Camborne. #BasilBrown #Cornwall #Kernow #Camborne #CamborneFestival #BookOfTheDay
Basset Road, Camborne, Cornwall, 1908 - Milton Artlette Postcard
Camborne Royal Trophy Band, Camborne, Cornwall, 1913 - RP Postcard
#690 John Stengelhofen (ed) - Journal of the Trevithick Society No 7. The Trevithick Society, Camborne, 1979-1980. #JohnStengelhofen #Cornwall #Kernow #Mining #Camborne #RichardTrevithick #TheTrevithickSociety #BookOfTheDay
#632 David H. Thomas - Camborne Parish Church: Historical Notes and Brief Guide. The Reverend Bill Stuart-White, Camborne, 1998, revised edition. #DavidHThomas #Camborne #Cornwall #Ecclesiology #Churches #BookOfTheDay
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