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  • ...llet Grylls, a local banker, who stopped the closure of Wheal Vor, a local mine that at the time employed over a thousand people. ...h a few remaining aviation exhibits. Nearby Wendron is home to the Poldark Mine theme park, where visitors can go underground into the old workings.
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  • [[File:Cyniczna kopalnia.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Geevor Tin mine near St Just, Cornwall]] Commencing in the early 19th century, significant numbers of mine workers migrated to live and work in mining communities based on Cornish tr
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  • ...down the cliffs north of Botallack. The 1975 [[BBC]] television series ''Poldark'' was filmed partly in Botallack, using Manor Farm as Nampara.<ref>[http:// ...and staff of the Botallack Mine, and as the centre for the mine accounts. Mine workers would come here month by month to receive their wages. Today it is
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  • ...famous nationwide in 2015 as a major filming location for the BBC series ''Poldark''. ...ts living in Holmbush, of whom ten were employed as miners and one was the mine agent. As the mines became exhausted and their output dropped, the port was
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