Cornish Mining

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Mining was not just a job; it was a way of life. 

Where the mine company owned the housing, the mine dominated daily life. Cornish mining transformed both the region’s landscape and its society. It helped to create a distinctive culture. By the mid-nineteenth century, Cornwall had created a proud and assertive regional identity, associated most closely with the mining districts.

 

Housing

Click to see a larger version of this imageareial view of main street in Pendeen

The growth of the mining industry created more jobs this led to rapid population growth and the creation of new settlements. 


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Home life

Click to see a larger version of this imagestreet in pendeen. black and white view

The Cornish family in the past was distinctive because there was a relatively equal division of labour between men and women.


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Women

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Bal Maidens

From the early 18th century women and girls were employed above the ground in growing numbers doing low paid manual work.


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Children in the Mines

Click to see a larger version of this imagetwo young boy miners

In the 18th and 19th centuries children were employed above and below ground.


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