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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. No notes or highlighting. Softcover. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> I first became deeply interested in the history of the Cornish mining industry and its surviving industrial archaeology in 1962 aged sixteen while in the First Year VIth Form at Redruth Grammar School and a very inexperienced photographic beginner. In those days I made sorties to several formerly prominent mining areas in west Cornwall either on foot or by bus and my chief companion on tramps around the St. Ives and St. Just districts was Gerald Williams of Penzance with whom I had shared all too few highly enjoyable years at Tolcarne Primary School in Newlyn and who had already caught ‘the bug’. The following years saw our enthusiasm for the subject grow and grow along with our own photographs plus a few additional historical images we might be able to afford to purchase from time to time. Gerald having fallen victim to the lure a year or two before me was already more knowledgeable about the West Penwith area and even then displayed a prodigious capacity for facts and information