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What does “Consols” mean?
In a mine name, “Consols” usually means consolidated: workings or mining interests brought together under a combined undertaking. It is a clue to business organisation, rather than a mineral or a type of engine.
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Wheal Golden
Wheal Golden was a lead-and-silver mine on the Penhale Point side of Holywell Bay. Nineteenth-century workings cut into a headland that already contained an Iron Age defended settlement. Mining waste, shafts and processi
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Wheal Leisure mine
Perranporth copper mine remembered in the town’s car-park name.
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Wheal Liberty / Goonbell Viaduct
Wheal Liberty Viaduct, also called Goonbell Viaduct, carried the Chacewater–Newquay branch across a valley near St Agnes. The surviving five-arch structure is a substantial reminder of the engineering behind a rural pass
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Wheal Ramoth
Wheal Ramoth was a tin working in the dunes north of Perranporth. Its later history includes the recovery of tin from old mine waste, with returns recorded in the nineteenth century and into the beginning of the twentiet
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Wheal Reen
Wheal Reen is a historic mine name associated with the dune country north of Perranporth. It sits within a landscape of older workings around Reen, Gear Sands and the Perran Consols group.
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Wheal Vlow, Perran Consols
Wheal Vlow was a tin mine in the Gear Sands landscape north of Perranporth. It worked the central part of the lode that bears its name; Wheal Widden occupied a western part. The workings became associated with Perran Con
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Wheal Widden, Perran Consols
Wheal Widden was a tin working in the Gear Sands area north of Perranporth, associated with the Perran Consols undertaking. It worked the western part of the Wheal Vlow lode, while Wheal Vlow’s own workings lay farther e
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Wilkie Collins in Cornwall
Wilkie Collins travelled through Cornwall in 1850 and published Rambles Beyond Railways in 1851. His account of the pilchard fishery describes the huer’s signals, boats surrounding shoals with a seine, and the work of la
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William Martin, Gannel quay owner
William Martin owned a quay on the seaward side of Trevemper Bridge. An 1852 Quarter Sessions account records his complaint that waste from East Wheal Rose mine was obstructing the Gannel and making it difficult for barg
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William Pease
William Pease (1808–1891) was a surveyor and steward closely associated with Joseph Thomas Treffry’s industrial works. His story is a useful corrective to the idea that one rich man personally drew every railway, designe
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William West, mining engineer
William West was a Cornish mining engineer whose career connected pumping engines, mine management and engineering businesses. He came from the Dolcoath mining world and worked with the engineer Samuel Grose before becom
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William Withell (1808–1887) — shipbuilder
William Withell was a shipbuilder and shipwright at Porth in 1859, previously trading at Sunny Corner near Malpas. His insolvency notice records both his materials and financial difficulties.