A bal maiden, from the Cornish language bal, a mine, and the English "maiden", a young or unmarried woman, was a female manual labourer working in the...
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Look up Bal or bal in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bal or BAL may refer to: Bal (surname), including a list of people with the name Bal (given name)...
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a British writer and director known for her work on films Unclasped, Bal Maiden (2024), and Misnomer (2022). Aela (disambiguation) Aelle, an English masculine...
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Pieces Sara Short film 2019 Our Ladies Finnoula 2020 She She / Her Short film 2022 Canyon Del Muerto Ann Axtell Morris 2023 Bal Maiden Ruth Short film...
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(also found in Devon) Bal – a mine (in use after the year 1800, from Cornish language, related to palas, meaning 'to dig') Bal maiden – a woman working at...
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A gook was a piece of protective headgear worn by bal maidens (female manual labourers in the mining industries of Cornwall and Devon). The gook was a...
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August 16, 2023. Retrieved August 17, 2023. "Stripped & Teased | Credits". Bal-Maiden Films. Archived from the original on 2011-07-07. Retrieved 2011-06-21...
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feldspar for electrical porcelain with at least 50 bal maidens separating the feldspar. The bal maidens were laid off in 1921 but some of the survivors were...
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England – Smock Cornwall – Sou'wester hat, fisherman's smock, gansey, bal-maiden clothing, Cornish kilts and tartans London – Pearly kings and queens Northern...
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"Maid" In Anglo-Cornish dialect "maid" is commonly used to mean "girl"; Bal maidens were women working at the mines of Cornwall, at smashing ore &c. "A day...
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dressing in trousers was considered unfeminine and degenerate by society. Bal maiden - women who worked the Cornish tin mines Victorian dress reform Footnotes...
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Twin Archdeacon of Cornwall Atlantic Coast Line, Cornwall Atlantic Ocean Bal maiden Ballowall Barrow Baragwanath Battle of Deorham Battle of Lostwithiel Battle...
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5-060109-992738 Tane an Gove: the title refers to Michael An Gof Bal maiden: Bal=Mine. Bal maidens were employed at the surface to break up ore-bearing rocks...
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Hayle and the copper mines of Redruth and Camborne. Cornwall portal Bal maidens, female ore dressers Beam engine Come, all ye jolly tinner boys Cornish...
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Cornish for 'place of work' or 'mine'. Another term for 'mine' is 'bal', as in 'bal maidens', the women who worked on the surface. Some local people continue...
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Bal maidens with traditional tools and protective clothing spalling ore, 1858...
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The Road to BAL, also known as the BAL Qualifying Tournaments, are the qualifying tournaments of the Basketball Africa League (BAL). While the main tournament...
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Cornish word for pasty. When the pasties were ready for eating, the bal maidens at the mines would supposedly shout down the shaft "Oggy Oggy Oggy" and...
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"Iron Maiden - ciekawostki o zespole". WhatNext.pl (in Polish). 31 March 2015. Retrieved 16 March 2019. "Przyszły gitarzysta Iron Maiden "bał się burzy"...
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name Balcombe may mean "Mining Place Camp". Bal is a Cornish word meaning a mining place as in Bal Maidens, and the same word may have existed in Ancient...
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the North Wales Slate Industry. David and Charles. ISBN 0-7153-6264-X. Bal Maidens & Mining Women British Isles History of the Welsh slate industry Slatesite...
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Bal maiden Camborne School of Mines Crown Mines Dolcoath mine South Crofty Wheal Jane Geevor Tin Mine Mount Wellington Tin Mine King Edward Mine Levant...
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[citation needed] The "traditional dress" of Cornwall for women is a bal maiden's or fishwife's costume. This includes the wearing of a bonnet known as...
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it green: Unicaja win maiden BCL title in Belgrade". FIBA.basketball. Retrieved 2 May 2024. "Petro de Luanda are the 2024 BAL Champions". Basketball...
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Books. ISBN 978-0-9556896-0-4. OCLC 688362135. Mayers, Lynne (2008b). Bal Maidens: Women and Girls of the Cornwall and Devon Mines (2nd ed.). Cinderford:...
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The Fearless Vampire Killers (redirect from Le Bal des vampires)
Sarah (Sharon Tate), who is promptly abducted. Determined to save the buxom maiden, they confront the undead Count in his castle. The film has been adapted...
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travelled to each of the ten World Heritage Site mining areas accompanied by Bal maidens and miners who animated the puppet with ropes; travelling 130 miles ending...
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up with a pointed hammer weighing up to four pounds. Teenage girls (bal maidens) sat on low benches and broke the ore to remove the rock and break the...
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The 2021 BAL season, also known as BAL Season 1, was the inaugural season of the Basketball Africa League (BAL). Established as a joint effort between...
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6,000 feet. By the early 20th century, several thousand men, women, bal maidens, and children worked in the mine. A slump in tin prices during World...
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