I cannot help with any real details, but I feel sure I was once told that the standard length in which safety fuse (using gunpowder) was sold was determined by the length of the room in the factory in Cornwall in which it was made. As it came off the machine, a lad would take the end as far as he could go to the wall, and a second person would then cut the end near the machine. I think the standard length, determined in this manner, was 24 feet. It could be I was told this by Jack Trounson, who was our guide on a tour of Cornish mines when we took a day off from the surveying course at Tywarnhaile in the spring of 1952. Jack stood at the front of the coach and had a story about every pump-house visible.
Tony Brewis
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Sent: 21 October 2015 13:16
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Subject: Gunpowder Factory Cook's Kitchen
Hi everyone,
Slightly off subject, but does anyone know about gunpowder factory at or near Cook’s Kitchen Mine, Cornwall? Bickford-Smith applied for licence 1876 but know nothing more. It was probably turned down due to location???
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