I'm aussie and my father was a proud cornishman and all his side were cornishman. my grandfather Henry Harris worked at Holman's all his life. I'll never forget going over at the end of 1974 with my family I was about 10 to visit my grand parents an great grandmother for Xmas and having cornish pasties and saffron buns.i remember walking up Carnbrea with my grandfather they lived at the base of it at Redruth. as I get older I think about that xmas. I'll have to go over and have another look I rekon

David Penhaligon said it best when addressing a meeting in Camborne. “ You need more in an economy than just tourism, ice cream and deckchairs. Our mining industry is not a figment of the last decade or the last two decades. It has occupied Cornishmen and it has produced wealth for this century, the previous century and probably the last two thousand years; and what we’re asking the government to do is to recognise the great contribution we have made for the wealth of Britain, and in this time of great trial and tribulation to come to our assistance - that’s what we’re asking our government to do.”

this was a blow from which cornwall did not recover, men in suits who didn't know what they were doing or what they were talking about given decision making power all because they have a piece of paper!

This was such a sad time, something the Cornish has done for thousands of years, finished!

Crofty might be opening again one day soon!

R IP you opening one day they need you you good kernow boys of canbor be and red Ruth you will up and running one day for now r I p to we see you opening l live in canbone the time you all working l went pool c s school l was you day by day