The Notebook of a Devon Great Consols Mine Captain: 1886 – 1900
Description
William Woolcock.his notebook has been transcribed by Rick Stewart and Robert Waterhouse,, Sb, A4, 68pp
The years covered in the diary find this once great copper mine struggling to survive mainly through sales of arsenic. This was also the period when Devon Great Consols was engaged in an ultimately fruitless search for tin at depth. Woolcock working at Wheal Emma was much involved in this.