The Tamar Bal Maidens

Women and Girls of the Mines of East Cornwall and West Devon

Lynne Mayers (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

26 Seiten

2011
Blaize Bailey Books (Verlag)
978-0-9556896-4-2 (ISBN)

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This book records the life and work of the women and girls who worked at the mines, smelters and clay works in the Tamar area, covering some twenty five parishes. This region can claim one of the longest written mining histories, with records of women at the 14th century lead smelters, and with still a few women working into the 20th century. The hey-day of female employment, however, was the 19th century, when most were working at the copper mines. In addition, there were bal maidens dressing ore at the lead-silver, manganese and tin mines, as well as at the extensive brick works and clay pits. When the copper lodes began to fail, and the copper mines in the area diversified into arsenic production, bal maidens were still there dressing the very product that had previously been regarded as waste. The last bal maidens seem to have finally laid down their hammers, shovels, and barrows by about 1910. But that wasn't quite the end of the story...

Lynne Mayers trained in tropical agriculture, but later was ordained as a Methodist minister. Her Cornish forebears (men, women and children) had worked at the tin, copper and lead mines in the parish of Perranzabuloe. On having to take early retirement, she has continued to study the lives of women and girls who worked at the mines of the South West. Her other books include 'Bal Maidens', 'A Dangerous Place to Work', 'Voices from the Dressing Floors', 'The St Austell Bal Maidens', 'The North Coast Bal Maidens', and 'The Godolphin Bal Maidens'.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.1.2011
Zusatzinfo	Black & White
Verlagsort	Cinderford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 230 mm
Gewicht	67 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Themenwelt	Technik ► Bergbau
ISBN-10	0-9556896-4-3 / 0955689643
ISBN-13	978-0-9556896-4-2 / 9780955689642
Zustand	Neuware