Sound Recording, Cornwall
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recording, Cornwall
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A812r
Site Location(s): Subject - St Day, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom( 50.2396, -5.18572 )
Date(s): July 1963
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 13' 59".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414863
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Renfred Knowles, recorded in St Day ; describes a working day in a [?tin] mine, including charging holes and blasting; being a miner for thirty years; working with boring machines; occupational diseases, lung problems (silicosis); sport - football, Cornish wrestling; captain of St Day Football Club in 1920, and Penryn in 1921; involvement in the Cornish Referee Society; refereeing; pigeon keeping/racing; rescuing dogs and cats from mine shafts; explains the sinking of mine shafts to join levels (veins); describes working two thousand feet underground for copper and tin - heat, ventilation; first worked in a mine aged fifteen; working shifts; closure of tin mines; wages (compared with overseas, e.g. the Malay states); mining accidents.
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