A new organisation has taken over the management of Geevor Mine and museum
in Pendeen, West Cornwall from today. Pendeen Community Heritage (PCH) has
been granted the management of the site by Cornwall County Council. The
trustees of PCH are people from the locality who are passionately concerned
with the future of the mine site and are seeking to increase the number of
visitors to the site and hence the area. The chairman of the trustees, Bill
Lakin, is a mining historian.
PCH itself was born in February 2001, so it has been some task to get an
organisation up and running in that time. Importantly, all current
employees on the site have been retained and the plan is to increase
employment as resources permit.
Geevor closed as a working mine in 1990. The site has been left with all
the equipment of mining and is a superb resource. Considerable effort is
being expended in making this worthy of the area's hoped for World Heritage
Site status. Plans include the greater realisation of the educational and
research potential of the site.
A website has been built, http://www.geevor.com and is under continual
development. There is a great potential for contribution of knowledge to
the effort so assistance from any speciality will be welcomed.
Apologies for cross posting - and also if this sounds like a commercial. It
is just the culmination of a lot of unpaid effort by people who bit the bullet.
Regards
John
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