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THE TREVITHICK SOCIETY
FOR THE PRESERVATION AND STUDY OF CORNWALL'S INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE
Established 1935 |
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The Trevithick Society's Collections |
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Although the Society has been acquiring mining-related artefacts since its beginnings it is only in more recent years that its collecting activities have broadened. Coincidentally the amount of material held by the Society has increased dramatically in recent years, most notably with the inclusion of material acquired from the closure Compair-Holman in Camborne and the Redruth Brewery. We presently have on loan the Holman rock drill collection, now at King Edward Mine.
Much of this material has yet to be properly catalogued, but we estimate the collection to contain over of 50,000 images. The vast majority of these are glass slides, negatives and transparencies which will be digitised in the fullness of time. The Society also holds over 150 8mm and 16mm films, including a complete history of Holman Brothers in the 1930s.
Our holdings are very diverse, from rock drills and fragments of beam engines to model beam engines, important historical documents, portraits and engravings, wooden foundry patterns, survey equipment, to pewter plates.
Much of this material is on loan to various organisations, such as the National Trust (at Cornish Engines, Pool), the County Museum, Geevor Tin Mine, Levant Mine, Morwellham Quay and the Kew Bridge Engines Trust.
The Society is keenly aware that much historical material has been lost and would be pleased to hear from people, companies or organisations who have any of this material which they no longer require. Please contact the curator in the first instance.
Click below to see a gallery of some of the Society's possessions:
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