March 14th Botallack Mine (Closure)

On this day in 1914, Botallack Mine closed making 100 men redundant.

                                                                                                                       

                                                                                                                                  Botallack Mine (Clarkson Frederick Stanfield, 1822)

An extraordinary General Meeting of Botallack Ltd. held on 27th August 1914 but it was almost a formality as production had effectively ceased months earlier with groups of miners being made redundant successively leaving, by the end, only 25 miners performing maintenance duties. 

A significant number of miners left to work in South Wales and, of course, within just a few months, the First World War started and many men signed up.  In addition, many miners joined the famous 251st Tunnelling Company (August 10th), tasked with mining underneath the German lines, which was formed in Hayle in 1915.



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