Category Archives: Mining and the Industrial Revolution

Survey ~ The Last Days of Holmans

Survey time: 5 minutes On July 16, I present a paper to the Institute of Cornish Studies entitled ‘The Last Days of Holmans’. I intend it to tell the story of the 500 redundancies the firm made in 1985, the demolition of the Number One Works in 1989 (and subsequent erecting of a large supermarket),Continue reading “Survey ~ The Last Days of Holmans”

Book Review: Mine to Die, by Rob Donovan

Reading time: 5 minutes Mine to Die, by Rob Donovan Troubadour Publishing, 2024 218 pages, 27 images £9.99 Rob Donovan has given us a compelling and moving whistle-stop tour of Cornwall’s industrial history. It is not, I hasten to add, a comprehensive history; readers are here directed to A. K. Hamilton Jenkin, John Rowe, andContinue reading “Book Review: Mine to Die, by Rob Donovan”

Paul Rabey and The Foreign Girls’ Protection Society: They Died With Their Shoes On, Part Five

A sinister and extraordinary post…Victorian Cornwall’s most notorious con-artist and Victorian London’s dark underworld…an unpleasant conclusion to this series…