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carnkie
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17 years ago

Couldn't resist the opportunity of adding a library to the DB. :angel:

St. Agnes, Trelawney Road; Library: Town
library and car park built on the site of Polbreen Mine's Dorcas shaft - the large tree-covered mound with a folly on is part of the waste tip (Cornish term: Burrow) from the shaft. This was the main winding shaft for the mine and tapped a very rich lode known as Dorcas lode. 'Dorcas' is reputed to be the name of a girl who committed suicide by jumping into the shaft (by the pub) after her fiancee died in a mining accident.

The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.

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GolowDydh
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17 years ago

The library also has one of the few copies of Derek Hattam's 1993 book "Pumping Engines on the St. Agnes Mines" for those with more than a passing interest in local industrial archaeology.

Landlords have claimed that the pub (The Railway Inn) is haunted, presumably by Dorcas, but I suspect it is more a case of a good story to get the punters in.

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down

carnkie
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17 years ago

Unusual name Dorcas. Presumably taken from the bible? :offtopic:

The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.