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The
emphasis is on those who worked at the mines (known
as bal maidens),
clay & slate works, and related
industries (such as the explosives industry, smelters
etc) in Cornwall and West Devon
and includes a searchable database
of more than 24,000 named individuals. (Updated
17th April 2008)
There
are pages about mining women around the world, notably of pit
brow lasses of the north of England, and coal dressers on the
French and Belgian coal
fields. There are also Name Indexes
(which include both males and females) for the 1842
Royal Commission Reports into the Employment of Children and
Young People at the Mines for Cumberland,
Durham,
Northumberland, Cornwall
and West Devon, and
the Forest
of Dean.
Please
also check the page Books &
Articles for further reading.
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****New****
A
Dangerous Place to Work! by
Lynne Mayers - 108 page
paperback. £7.95.
This
book tells the story of the employment of women and children
right across the mining industries of Devon and Cornwall,
up until the second half of the 20th century. It includes
their work at the mines, clay works, slate quarries,
foundries, smelters, and gunpowder and explosives works. ggffhff
Available
now from
www.lulu.com,
and also from Amazon
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| BALMAIDENS
by Lynne Mayers. Published by Hypatia Trust. 246 pages
A4 paperback with index. Available from major bookshops, from
the publisher or direct from us. SOLD
OUT. We
are currently publishing a Revised Second Edition, due out Autumn
2008. |
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