Further light can now be shed on the fate of John Alford, subject of the blog below, which was posted in September 2021 .... In 1899 John was charged with assaulting and striking his wife Mary at St Teath. She applied for separation, which was granted. John was fined five shillings or a week's hard … Continue reading Hard times at Advent and a sad end
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Digging for riches: not just miners but quarriers
Most modern employment classifications treat mining and quarrying as a single economic sector. So how many more workers did clay extraction and quarrying add to the mining and quarrying sector in 1861? The answer is not that many when compared with the dominant mining for copper, tin, lead and other minerals. While metal mines accounted … Continue reading Digging for riches: not just miners but quarriers
St Teath: slate quarrying on two continents
St Teath in the 1860s was Cornwall’s slate capital. The village of Delabole in the parish had grown as the result of the expansion of the former hamlets of Pengelly, Meadrose and Rockhead, which housed the hundreds of quarry labourers who came to work at Delabole Quarry, one of the deepest, if not the deepest, … Continue reading St Teath: slate quarrying on two continents
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