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unusual facts about Camborne–Redruth Urban District



A. Sabhapathy Mudaliar

This issue was raised in the House of Commons by William Caine, the MP for Camborne at the time.

Camborne

Holmans, a family business founded in 1801, was for generations, Camborne's, and indeed Cornwall's largest manufacturer of industrial equipment, even making the famous Sten submachine gun for a stint during the Second World War.

The town name inspired the name of Camborne, New Zealand, a seaside suburb of Porirua City developed by an investment company headed by an Arthur Cornish.

Because of the importance of metal mining to the Cornish economy, the Camborne School of Mines (CSM) developed as the only specialist hard rock education establishment in the United Kingdom, until the Royal School of Mines was established in 1851.

Camborne Grammar School

Zoe Fox, spokesperson for Cornish political party Mebyon Kernow and local campaigner, has condemned the proposed closure of the Children's Centre at Trevu in Camborne.

Camborne Hill

Camborne Hill itself runs from Tehidy Road Post Office up Fore Street to the corner of HSBC with Commercial Street.

Camborne, British Columbia

The name is derived from that of the mining town of Camborne, Cornwall in England, or to the School of Mines in that town, which was a mining college of the time (1902).

Charles H. Prisk

His parents were from Camborne, Cornwall, England, and they settled in Grass Valley where his father worked as a miner.

Eustice

George Eustice, British Conservative politician, elected MP for Camborne & Redruth 6 May 2010

Helena Charles

She led the party for the first four years and was also the first person to put MK policies to the electorate, winning the St Day seat on Camborne–Redruth Urban District Council with 77.6 per cent of the vote in 1953, fighting under the slogan 'A Square Deal for the Cornish.'

Isaac Seligman

In 1896, Seligman was appointed joint legal owner and trustee of the 'Tregullow Offices' (later Zimapan Villa), a former Cornish mine office belonging to the Williams mining-mogul family of Scorrier, Cornwall, by Charles Augustus Vansittart Conybeare, barrister-at-law and MP for Camborne, Cornwall (1885-1895).

John Passmore Edwards

As well as London libraries such as at East Dulwich, and Edmonton, he gave the public library buildings in Devon at Newton Abbot and in Cornwall at Bodmin, Camborne, Falmouth, Launceston, Liskeard, Penzance, Redruth, St Ives and Truro.

Safety fuse

In 1831 William Bickford, an English merchant and a Methodist, originally from Ashburton, Devon, moved to the heart of the Cornish mining district near Camborne; where at Tuckingmill he developed the first practical and reliable means for igniting gunpowder when mining, the "Safety Fuze".

Tuckingmill

Tuckingmill, Camborne, Cornwall, a parish near Camborne in the English county of Cornwall


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