School Of Metallipherous Mining
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The School of Metalliferous Mining was formed by the amalgamation of all the mining schools in Cornwall, England, UK in 1910 . There were at the time three mining schools in Cornwall; Camborne, Penzance and Redruth. During the period of time mining schools under government patronage were being established in colonies across the British Empire. As a result of this increasing number of mining schools it was felt that the schools in Cornwall should be combined. The newly amalgamated school would occupy the Camborne Mining School site and the Camborne Mining School brand be continued. Mr. W. Ficher Wilkinson was appointed as the first principal of the newly formed School of Metallipherous Mining. He was educated at Harrow and at the Freiberg University of Mining and Technology, Freiberg, Germany. Previously at the Camborne Mining School Mr. J.J. Beringer had been principal for 28 years.
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[edit] amalgamated Mining Schools
[edit] Redruth Mining School
The Redruth School of Mines and Art School opened in 1882/83 and was located somewhere in Clinton Road to the east of the town. With the removel of mining education to the Camborne the site became the Science and Art School and continued to teach art and sience.
A wing of the Redruth Mining School was a large mineral museum called the Robert Hunt Memorial Museum erected to the memory of Robert Hunt FRS by The Miners Association of Devon and Cornwall. keeper of the Mining Record Office, London. This aftyer the closure of the school remained open until 1950 when it closed, the specimens were then taken to the Camborne School of Mines.
[edit] Camborne Mining School
the Camborne Campus of Camborne School of Mines as it became known was located just off of Camborne High-street in Trevithick Road. The following information is a working progress:
1876.-George Basset, the great mine entrepreneur makes a bequest to build a laboratory in Camborne, The Basset building, for the use of the pupils of The Miners Association. 1882 The adjacent Camborne Science and Art School building opened. 1935.-The building adjacent to the Basset Memorial Building is Purchased, re-furbished and equipped, and named the Josiah Thomas Memorial Building.
[edit] Penzance Mining School
The Penzance Mining and Science School opened on the 7 Oct. 1890, at a cost for building and fittings of nearly £1,900. The school consisted of two floors, the ground floor housed the technical instruction hall and the lecture theatre and upstairs chemical lecture rooms, class rooms and a laboratory filled with working benches for 24 students, furnace room for metallurgical work and a balance room. Andrew Ketcham Barnett was the first principal of the Mining and Science School at Penzance, which had been established due to his classes on mineralogy in 1873. PHILIP BURNE CORIN (1860-1933) was a master at the Mining and Science School between 1893-1910.
The school later included Camborne in the title creating `Camborne School Of Metalliferous Mining`
In 1975 the school changed its name to Camborne School of Mines to better describe its academic activities.
