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...

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)...

(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...

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...

dressing in trousers was considered unfeminine and degenerate by society. Bal maiden - women who worked the Cornish tin mines Victorian dress reform Footnotes...

World War, to provide feldspar for electrical porcelain with at least 50 bal maidens separating the feldspar. Since 2011 the quarry has been an EarthCache...

Bal maidens with traditional tools and protective clothing spalling ore, 1858...

"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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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ore up with a pointed hammer weighing up to 4 pounds. Teenage girls (bal maidens) sat on low benches and broke the ore to remove the rock and break the...

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:...

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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[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...

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...

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...

it green: Unicaja win maiden BCL title in Belgrade". FIBA.basketball. Retrieved 2 May 2024. "Petro de Luanda are the 2024 BAL Champions". Basketball...

"Iron Maiden - ciekawostki o zespole". WhatNext.pl (in Polish). 31 March 2015. Retrieved 16 March 2019. "Przyszły gitarzysta Iron Maiden "bał się burzy"...

California, at the age of 58. Company of Killers (1971) .... Gloria Le Bal des voyous (1968) .... Karine La Nuit la plus chaude (1967) I Spy (TV) –...

Faces - 100 Stories. Retrieved 26 June 2017. Lynne., Mayers (2008). Bal maidens : [women and girls of the Cornwall and Devon mines]. Blaize Bailey Books...

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...

yielding more arsenic than copper. After being sorted by the mine's bal maidens, the copper ore was sent to south Wales to be smelted. The company began...