Qualla: Botallack Mine https://qualla.com/botallack-mine en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:10 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/v/botallack-mine-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Botallack Mine https://qualla.com/botallack-mine Botallack Mine: Introduction https://qualla.com/botallack-mine/ Photo credit Ashley Dace, CC BY-SA 2.0. The miners at Botallack worked half a mile out under the Atlantic. They could hear the sea over their heads when the swells were big, boulders rolling across the rock above them like distant thunder. Down on the cliff edge, the two stone engine houses of the Crowns clung to a ledge above the breakers, their chimneys leaning slightly into the wind. The men climbed down to them on ladders fixed to the cliff face, then descended again, this time into the workings, until they were beneath the seabed itself. They came up at the end of the shift soaked in seawater and sweat, with the salt of two oceans on their skin.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/v/botallack-mine-wp/gbgv-botallack-mine-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Botallack Mine: Out Under the Sea https://qualla.com/botallack-mine/ Photo credit SMJ, CC BY-SA 2.0. Botallack was a submarine mine. Its tunnels reached half a mile out under the Atlantic, following lodes of tin and copper that the Cornish geology had laid down in the granite hundreds of millions of years ago. Over the recorded life of the workings, miners pulled out around 14,5...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/v/botallack-mine-wp/gbgv-botallack-mine-out-under-the-sea.mp3 0:06 2 full Botallack Mine: The Lives of the Men https://qualla.com/botallack-mine/ Photo credit David Johnson [1], CC BY-SA 3.0. Two hundred and sixty-five workers were on the books in 1884, drawing wages totalling about 800 pounds a month. The figure includes the bal maidens, the women and girls who broke and dressed the ore on the surface, swinging hammers all day in the wind off the cliff. Underground, ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/v/botallack-mine-wp/gbgv-botallack-mine-the-lives-of-the-men.mp3 0:06 3 full Botallack Mine: The Royal Visit and the Auction https://qualla.com/botallack-mine/ Photo credit Joan G, CC BY-SA 2.0. In 1865 the Prince and Princess of Wales, the future Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark, came to Botallack and descended the diagonal shaft. They went down in mining gear, three hundred feet beneath the seabed, and emerged talking about the sound of the waves rolling overhead. T...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/v/botallack-mine-wp/gbgv-botallack-mine-the-royal-visit-and-the-auction.mp3 0:06 4 full Botallack Mine: Poldark and the Heritage Site https://qualla.com/botallack-mine/ Photo credit Chris Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0. The Crowns engine houses, perched on their cliff ledge, have become the most photographed Cornish mining image on earth. The BBC filmed Poldark here in the 1970s and again from 2015, using the Crowns to stand in for Wheal Leisure and Manor Farm as the fictional Nampara. Walk the ...

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