THE COGGY BITS of CORNWALL SIA Study Tour Review
Volume 31 Winter 2002 Number 1 THE COGGY BITS OF CORNWALL SIA Study Tour Review ave a geek, me loveys!” called out the old tin miner and details maven. In a former career, Elizabeth was trained in “ as he welcomed us to the room-sized three-dimen- Arles to be a professional chef, so she knew how to find good pubs sional skeletal model of the hundreds of mine shafts and restaurants. Our bus driver, Terry Audley, was from St. Ives, H and tunnels of the St. Just mining area at the west- a picturesque bayside tourist town and site of our lodgings. Terry’s ern tip of Cornwall. “And don’t miss the photo of the bal maid- ability to get a bus into tight spots was amazing; when he drove ens.” It was the morning of Sept. 3, our first full day of the the bus down the winding, narrow road into the Blue Hills ravine, Cornwall Study Tour, and fifteen of us had just arrived at Wheal the owners and other onlookers applauded! Terry even took us on Geevor, one of the last Cornish tin mines to close. Wheal a delightful walking tour of St. Ives one evening and told us many (works), bal (mine), adit (lowest horizontal tunnel with natural tales about local characters. drainage), zawn (vertical cleft)—fortunately our local guide Pat Ours was a compatible group having many interests in com- Sargeant had given us a five-page lexicon of Cornish mining mon, and during our ten days of great weather, much walking, and terms.
[Show full text]