copper triangle
Instead of a bath tub or shower washbasin's or a cast iron pot were used. The water had to be pumped from the water pump in the front garden. Many of the Cornish houses were built without a plan for a bathroom. Water was drawn from an underground tank and heated on the kitchen fire. The toilet/lavatory used were earth closets consisting of a plain wooden toilet seat and a long drop. Ashes from the house would have been poured tipped into the pit and squares of newspaper used instead of toilet paper. As the family grew it was common to extend the house. This can be seen because of the uneven roof extensions as the additional rooms were added on to the cottages which started off with only two rooms. Life during the copper rush was hard on the many families that lived there. Many of the men worked in the copper mines and did not see the light of day. A typical day started at 6:00 am and finished at 6:00pm when they would return home to their wives who looked after the home. Lunch would be a Cornish pasty which was cooked by the "missus". Young boys of ten and over would often join their fathers at the site and pick through the tailings for copper pieces of any value. These boys were often called young "picky boys". The y
The Wheal Hughes engine house (see appendix Five) is still standing to this day and is a constant reminder of the hard work that many of the Cornish miners had to endure to bring home the bread to feed their families. Wheal is the Cornish word for mine, and Hughes is named after Walter Watson Hughes, a mine owner in Moonta and a major benefactor of South Australia. Hughes Engine House was erected in 1865, It closed in 1923. It was the second mine to be dug during the 1980's. It was initially worked as an open cut mine before the underground working was dug. During it's period of operation 13 workers were employed. It's job was to pump water from the adjacent shaft to a depth of 366 m and from Taylors shaft about 300 meters to the north to a depth of 768 metres. (see appendix Five) In 1923 when the copper was exhausted, the towns of Moonta, Kadina and Wallaroo needed to find new ways to make money. They now earn a lot of money from farming wheat and barley, fishing in the near by bays, breeding sheep and cattle, exporting goods from the Wallaroo ports and the production of fertilisers. Tourism is also a large economic booster with many people from all around the world come to look at the small towns of Moonta, Kadina and Wallaroo who have earnt themselves the name of the "copper triangle" due to the large amounts of copper which were extracted during the 1860's. You can go to Moonta to visit old mining communities and go underground at the Wheal
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