KING EDWARD MINE, TROON, CAMBORNE, TR14 6BW FRIDAY EVENING TALKS

Subject to alteration if necessary. All talks expected on Zoom where possible, a link will be sent prior to talks to all members where we hold an email address

April 11th

Jim Lewis

Wheal Prosper Tin Pit, Lanivet 1860s-1952

MAY AGM WEEKEND

May 3rd 7.30, St Just Women’s Institute Hall, Church Street, St Just

John Woodward

Levant developments

June 13th

John Morris

19th Century Cornish Mining Engineers, the brothers Thomas, John and William Petherick from Trevarth

July 11th

Ben Sumpter

Tin in Antiquity Part 3

August 8th

Sue Allen

The Conservation Value of Metalliferous Mine Sites in Cornwall. The Cornwall Branch of Butterfly Conservation has been searching our derelict mining landscape in the Camborne-Redruth and Gwennap districts, and recording the rarer species that live there. They have conducted surveys to identify the best areas and now have the data for a Landscape Scale Project to remove invasive non-native plants and improve connectivity between sites.

September 12th

Roger Radcliffe

Sets and Spells Part 5

ZOOM-ONLY TALKS ON MONDAYS

April 7th

Peter Daniel

Bude Canal Peter Daniel is a retired Civil Engineer, a member of the Trevithick Society, and Secretary of the Bude Canal & Harbour Society. The Bude Canal was unique in the UK, it was the longest tub-boat canal, had the only tidal lock into the open Atlantic, and the greatest canal incline. It was built in a very remote area beyond the reach of turnpike roads and with no pre-existing harbour facilities, and all to carry sand from the beach for soil improvement, which it did for some 70 years. The talk will describe the background to the canal, the use of sand in a regional context, the history of its construction and eventual closure, and descriptions of its main features and what survives today

May 12th

Roger Radcliffe

Sets and Spells Part 4

June 9th

Tom Cotterell

The Rashleigh Collections

September

Peter Daniel

What a load of rubbish!

October 11th
Mark Kaczmarek
A miners life at South Crofty Mine past and present.

November 8th
Roy Blewett
The Holman Family and their connections with Trevithick.

December 13th
Roger Radcliffe
Sets & Spells (Part 4): Seal Hole to Tubby’s Head.
Includes underground footage of Seal Hole adit; the Gunnery Training Camp at St Agnes Head; and St Agnes war horses.