Silver Street Baptist Church Hall

Historian and author Lynne Mayers describes the Kennal Vale Paper Mill, and poses the question whether it was the most successful mill in Cornwall The picturesque and deeply wooded Kennal Vale near Penryn in Cornwall is now a nature reserve, but was once a hive of industrial activity. In the nineteenth century it was the…

Mining Historian Rick Stewart examines the region’s production of the notoriously toxic heavy metal When alternative and cheaper sources of copper were found in Chile, South Africa and Australia in the 1860s, many mines faced ruin, but some were rescued by switching to the production of arsenic, for which there was then an increasing demand.…