Luxulyan: the death of a way of life

In the mid-Victorian era the parish of Luxulyan contained one of the two districts (the other being Carnmenellis in the west) where a considerable number of men were given the older occupational term  ‘tinner’ rather than miner, ‘tinner’ being an alternative term for a tin streamer. Moreover, tinners in 1851 were more likely also to … Continue reading Luxulyan: the death of a way of life →