Lulu Marketplace

This new book collects together various first hand accounts and interviews with those who worked at the surface of the tin or copper mines of Cornwall. It includes the recollections of Samuel Drew (philosopher), John Harris (poet) and Billy Bray (preacher). Also included are the reminiscences of those interviewed for the 1842 Royal Commission (surface captains as well as ore dressers), women who worked at the Camborne mines in the late 19th and early 20th centuries or at Polpuff Glass Mine during the First World War. There are also recollections from the Geevor washing floors in the Second World War. There is the moving account of bal maiden Patty Tremelling, taken from her journal written on her deathbed. Also included is a detailed account by an ex-slate dresser of the work at surface at Delabole Slate Quarry.