 | CARADON & LOOEThe Canal, Railway and Mine
2nd Edition - 1978, Revisded and Enlarged in 2001
by Michael Messenger
ISBN 978-0-906294-46-8
Book 22.5cm x 28cm, Hardback 168 Pages 222 Illustrations
Publisher: Twelveheads Press
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| | Some of the richest copper mines in the United Kingdom, a rare Cornish canal and a railway uniquely engineered to convey the minerals by gravity combine to make a fascinating story. The wealth bought by copper, as well as by tin and granite, extracted from this corner of Bodmin Moor, built the town of Liskeard and the harbour of Looe that we know today. It gave us a unique transport system, built to service the Bonanza of Caradon copper, a mining discovery that germinated, blossomed, withered and died all within fifty years, but left us the picturesque railway line to Looe. It is a story of ingenuity and capability, of independence and interdependence, of hope and despair. It could only have happened in Victorian Britain. Contents:
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 – Beginnings
- Chapter 2 – The Canal
- Chapter 3 – Horses and Gravity
- Chapter 4 – The Steam Railways
- Chapter 5 – Hopes and Despair
- Chapter 6 – Change of Directoin
- Chapter 7 – The Great Western and After
- Chapter 8 – From the Sea to the Moor
- Chapter 9 – Locomotives and Rolling Stock
- Chapter 10 – Men and Machines
- Chapter 11 – The Future
- Sources and acknowledgements
- Bibliography
- Footnotes
- Appendices:
- 1 – Chronology
- 2 – Traffic figures and accounts
- 3 –Copper and tin production of the Caradon District
- 4 – Locomotive and Rolling Stock Details
- 5 – Early Byelaws and Regulations
- 6 – Borlase Child’s memories
- 7 – Mines aropund Caradon Hill
- Index
Continent: Europe
Country: UK
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