Children were often employed on refining stages, sometimes working in water with bare feet. Their ages ranged from about seven or eight to 12 or 13. Their pay would have been from 1d to 2d on starting,…
Written on the back by Serena Wadham:
'While supporters of the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child wait to lobby their Members of Parliament, they are leafletted by women & men supporting the liberal abortion laws'
This sunset photograph of the ruins of Wheal Coates was taken by Tony Giles, the well-known Cornish artist. The ruins are situated within a mile of Langley Cottage, St Agnes, where Giles lived with his schoolteacher wife Hilary.