Saturday 16th June

10: 00 - 13:00     Tamar Valley Mines in the 19th Century

Introduction

Devon Great Consols - John Goodridge

The Women of the Tamar Mining Industries - Lynne Mayers

Morwellham Quay and its place in the Tamar Valley - Robert Waterhouse

Arsenic, Its Production and Use - Kingsley Riccard

13:00 - 14:00    Lunch

14:00 - 17:00    People and Places

Greenhill Arsenic Smelter - Richard de Nul

Health and Safety in Mining - Catherine Mills

The Mines at Bere Alston worked by Christopher Gulett - Peter Churcher

17:00    Close

Sunday 17th June

10:00 - 13:00    The Landscape of Mining

Mineralisation in the Tamar Valley - Richard Scrivener

The Crown Mines at Bere Ferrers - Peter Claughton & Chris Smart

Tin on Western Dartmoor - Phil Newman

The Archaeology of 18th & 19th Century Mining in the Tamar Valley - Colin Buck

13:00 - 14:00    Lunch

14:00 - 17:00    Heritage and Mining

King Edward Mine, its History, Conservation and Presentation and its role in the Great Flat Lode Area of the World Heritage Site - Tony Brooks

Continuing with a seminar - The prospects for mining heritage in the Suth West of England in the light of the Cornwall and west Devon World Heritage Inscription: will it be dominated by ‘Cornish Mining’?

With presentations by Fiona O’Connor - Cornish Mining in West Devon: Fact, Fiction, or Interpretation? - and by the Bere Alston Mining Group.

Discussion

16:30 - 17:00 Conference summing up and conclusions.

If you require any further details about the lecture program please contact Peter Claughton via the Contacts Page.