Buy this book on-line SCHWARTZ, SHARRON & PARKER, ROGER: : LANNER: A CORNISH MINING PARISHUK.TIVERTON,DEVON.HALSGROVE PUBLISHING,MEDIA AND DISTRIBUTION,1998. ISBN 1841140198.
UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn. FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip - absence of publisher's price.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy,wrap-around white background with red panels and contemporary b/w photograph insets to either panel,front panel with white letters; with negligible shelf-wear, bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - virtually as new. Top+fore-edges bright,crisp and clean without blemishes; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread - apart from my own collation. Bright,crip,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original,plain maroon cloth boards (bds) with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers (eps).UK, Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,4-288pp [paginated] includes authors' acknowledgements,a foreword by Dr Ronald Perry (Cornwall Economic and Social Research Group),an introduction,12 chapters+epilogue,profuse historical+contemporary b/w photographs, b/w maps,diagrams and b/w facsimile reproduction illustrations throughout the book and the text,an index,a subscribers list,plus [unpaginated] title page and a contents list/table.
At the beginning of the 19thC Lanner comprised a few scattered cottages,the homes of farmers and tinners.The development of steam technology at local mines,including Tresavean,allowed for deep lode mining ti take off,and people poured into the area.Gwennap was then the world's greatest copper mining area and Lanner lay at the heart of one of the most advanced industrial regions in the country.By 1836 Tresavean Mine was employing around 1300 men,women and children.Around this mighty mine a thriving community developed,with its chapels,church,schools,businesses and subsidiary industries of quarrying,brick and china clay manufacture.In 1844 Lanner became a parish in its own right.
This book provides a comprehensive study of the history of Lanner from the height of its mining prowess,through to the crash in the 1860s.One by one the local mines closed and many families were forced to migrate overseas.For the first time the authors have revealed the scale of the personal tragedies which overtook Lanner families in the aftermath of the region's economic decline,and from which Lanner has never recovered.
Yet it is a story of a people proud of its past,a Cornish community in which,even today,the historic bonds of mining and Methodism run as a vital current through their veins.
A welcome,authoritative and a comprehensive addition to Cornish local and parochial histories.The book came as a result of a successful,local village event organised by the Lanner Methodist Chapel, of a centennial celebration of parish life in May,1994 and held over 3 days.Also,a history of Lanner had never before been attempted,and this written account includes the original exhibition material, and additional research in local archives and libraries,expanding to trace 200 years of history.
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