Graham Easterling wrote:
Careful, Lawrie, there's a chemist about (and a geographer).
Stannic oxide (SnO2), cassiterite, the tin ore, is pure white. And
furthermore, my good man, it was mined in Cornwall, not Devon.
These counties are THAT different (Spreads arms). The one-time
Cornish Parliament was called The Stannary. It was a tinpot
organisation. Boo-boom.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.


At one time almost 50% of the worlds tin production was from
Cornwall. When mining was at it's peak around 30% of the counties
male workforce were employed by it. A brief fairly accurate summary.

Didn't a mine re-open fairly recently when the price of tin
went through the roof and it became economically viable again?

It's also worth pointing out that the assumption that coastal towsn
are ethnically white anglo saxon certain doesn't apply to Penzance
(though we do allow anglo saxons in now, we've forgiven them for the
invasion.

Joe said that the white population of Dawlish was 99.9%, well this
is obviously a figure just plucked out of the air for dramatic effect
but he isn't actually far wrong, it's 98.3%.
http://www.devon.gov.uk/census_profi...47-dawlish.pdf
Just 9 black people!

In my short road there are 2 families of Poles who live in flats
immediately opposite (they have boat named King Bob after Bob Marley)
my neighbour is 50% Bangledeshi (is that spelt OK?), the next house
is occupied by a German lecturer, and the next is Scottish. At the
moment the town is full of Chinese, who have come to see St.
Michael's Mount following a programme on the Discovery channel. The
chap who takes my disabled daughter out once a week is Jamaican, and
is now a member of the Marazion Yacht club.

That's quite a multicultural mix you've got going there!
I have a white Irish woman two doors along and an Asian family
up the street but that's about it as far as I know.
But I live in a mainly 'white' area of Bolton, other areas are very
different!

At least I'm Cornish, though I'm in a mixed marriage, I met my wife
whilst abroad in London, an anglo-saxon I believe.


--
Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl
Snow videos:
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3QvmL4UWBmHFMKWiwYm_gg

On 07/08/2014 00:57, Tudor Hughes wrote:
On Wednesday, 6 August 2014 22:17:38 UTC+1, Lawrence Jenkins wrote:
On Wednesday, 6 August 2014 20:16:55 UTC+1, jumper wrote: On 06/08/2014 11:28, Dawlish wrote: On Tuesday, August 5, 2014 10:53:14 AM UTC+1, Malcolm wrote: In article , Joe Egginton writes people find grossly offensive. What I "find grossly offensive" is you deliberately cross-posting this puerile rant to this newsgroup. -- Malcolm Actually, the cross post shows both egg and larry a newsgroup where someone might actually take their appalling far right wing views seriously and make them realise that people simply don't want them here. Food for thought you two? So says the man that lives in a small devon coastal resort, with a population of 99.9% ancestral British. Dullish have you ever been to a major British city or town? He is the at
ypical hypocrite. He moved from the diversity of Leeds to the even more well known epicentre of diversity known as Dawlish in Devon. The last black face they saw there was a tin miner. LOL.

Careful, Lawrie, there's a chemist about (and a geographer). Stannic oxide (SnO2), cassiterite, the tin ore, is pure white. And furthermore, my good man, it was mined in Cornwall, not Devon. These counties are THAT different (Spreads arms). The one-time Cornish Parliament was called The Stannary. It was a tinpot organisation. Boo-boom.
AFAIK Dawlish is from Pontefract, according to what he has written. This town is the home of cakes, in his case fruit-.
"Lol" is Welsh for stupid, not that I would attribute that characteristic to your good self or anyone else in this noble symposium. We must get on with each other, or, failing that, get off with each other. On mature reflection, I'd prefer the former.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.


Yes I rather get on, than the different peoples of the procreate with
each other. However, the world has moved on. It's all a matter of
numbers coming into the country, and where can some middle age and old
people can go to feel they are living in their own country.

On 07/08/14 00:57, Tudor Hughes wrote:

"Lol" is Welsh for stupid,

Nonsense.

Twp is welsh for stupid.

On 07/08/2014 10:25, Col wrote:
I have a white Irish woman two doors along and an Asian family
up the street but that's about it as far as I know.
But I live in a mainly 'white' area of Bolton, other areas are very
different!


I was looking at the statistics last night, and I live in the most white
British part of Wolverhampton at 91%. So I shouldn’t moan so much when
I go into the city centre.

The most ethnic divergent area is Blakenhall which has 54% Asian, and
only 24% white British which doesn’t surprise me, when I go down Dudley
Road, it's like going through little India. LOL

Didn't a mine re-open fairly recently when the price of tin
went through the roof and it became economically viable again?


Col
Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl

There's currently a lot of money being spent on South Crofty, whether it will actually re-open is in the balance. There's certainly a lot of tin left in Cornwall.

Anyone down this way interested in the subject should visit Geevor. http://www.geevor.com/ For some years after it shut the gear worn/used by the last shift remained on show as it was left, rather moving, and the underground tour was quite something. All a bit more H&S now, but still very interesting. Tin mines are very different to say coal mines, which are so dusty. Tin mines are just wet, you are often wading through water. Deep mining made possible by powerful steam engines and pumps.

Graham
Another cracking sunny day http://www.landsendweather.info/

On 07/08/2014 11:07, Dan Din wrote:
On 07/08/14 00:57, Tudor Hughes wrote:

"Lol" is Welsh for stupid,

Nonsense.

Twp is welsh for stupid.

It would seem that twp (pronounced toop?) is stupid. Lol is nonsense,
rubbish (in teh sense of claptrap rather than garbage).

So Twdwr is sort of right in this context.

Or should that be Tewdwr? It's always confusing when surnames are used
as forenames - oh, both of mine are derived from surnames!

On 07/08/14 13:12, Metman2012 wrote:
On 07/08/2014 11:07, Dan Din wrote:
On 07/08/14 00:57, Tudor Hughes wrote:

"Lol" is Welsh for stupid,

Nonsense.

Twp is welsh for stupid.

It would seem that twp (pronounced toop?) is stupid. Lol is nonsense,
rubbish (in teh sense of claptrap rather than garbage).

So Twdwr is sort of right in this context.

Cryddion.

On Thursday, 7 August 2014 13:12:12 UTC+1, Metman2012 wrote:
On 07/08/2014 11:07, Dan Din wrote: On 07/08/14 00:57, Tudor Hughes wrote: "Lol" is Welsh for stupid, Nonsense. Twp is welsh for stupid. It would seem that twp (pronounced toop?) is stupid. Lol is nonsense, rubbish (in teh sense of claptrap rather than garbage). So Twdwr is sort of right in this context. Or should that be Tewdwr? It's always confusing when surnames are used as forenames - oh, both of mine are derived from surnames!

The Welsh form of Tudor is Tudur, pronounced approximately Tidd-eerh. But my name uses the English pronunciation. It's the equivalent of Theodore, or, in Slavic countries, Todor. My father and his family, whose first language was Welsh, would often chuck in an English word or phrase, not because there wasn't a Welsh word, but just because. It's rather more fluid and less nationalistic than you might imagine. You may know this anyway. At home (in England) we would use a few Welsh words and sometimes I wasn't even sure which language it was. My own speech is RP plus a certain amount of Croydon.

You're right about "twp" and "lol" BTW.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

On Thursday, 7 August 2014 15:01:32 UTC+1, Tudor Hughes wrote:
On Thursday, 7 August 2014 13:12:12 UTC+1, Metman2012 wrote: On 07/08/2014 11:07, Dan Din wrote: On 07/08/14 00:57, Tudor Hughes wrote: "Lol" is Welsh for stupid, Nonsense. Twp is welsh for stupid. It would seem that twp (pronounced toop?) is stupid. Lol is nonsense, rubbish (in teh sense of claptrap rather than garbage). So Twdwr is sort of right in this context. Or should that be Tewdwr? It's always confusing when surnames are used as forenames - oh, both of mine are derived from surnames! The Welsh form of Tudor is Tudur, pronounced approximately Tidd-eerh. But my name uses the English pronunciation. It's the equivalent of Theodore, or, in Slavic countries, Todor. My father and his family, whose first language was Welsh, would often chuck in an English word or phrase, not because there wasn't a Welsh word, but just because. It's rather more fluid and less nationalistic than you might imagine. You may know this anyway. At home (in England) we would use a few Welsh words and sometimes I wasn't even sure which language it was. My own speech is RP plus a certain amount of Croydon. You're right about "twp" and "lol" BTW. Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

Tudor if I'm right wasn't the Tudor Dynasty started by Henry V's widowed wife Elaine? Having a fling with a high ranking Welshman with surname Tudor whilst she retired to Leeds Castle in Kent.

I'm at work at the moment but I'll check my facts when I get home.

On Thursday, 7 August 2014 16:13:03 UTC+1, Lawrence Jenkins wrote:
On Thursday, 7 August 2014 15:01:32 UTC+1, Tudor Hughes wrote:

On Thursday, 7 August 2014 13:12:12 UTC+1, Metman2012 wrote: On 07/08/2014 11:07, Dan Din wrote: On 07/08/14 00:57, Tudor Hughes wrote: "Lol" is Welsh for stupid, Nonsense. Twp is welsh for stupid. It would seem that twp (pronounced toop?) is stupid. Lol is nonsense, rubbish (in teh sense of claptrap rather than garbage). So Twdwr is sort of right in this context. Or should that be Tewdwr? It's always confusing when surnames are used as forenames - oh, both of mine are derived from surnames! The Welsh form of Tudor is Tudur, pronounced approximately Tidd-eerh. But my name uses the English pronunciation. It's the equivalent of Theodore, or, in Slavic countries, Todor. My father and his family, whose first language was Welsh, would often chuck in an English word or phrase, not because there wasn't a Welsh word, but just because. It's rather more fluid and less nationalistic than you might imagine. You may know this anyway. At home (in England) we would use a few Welsh words and sometimes I wasn't even sure which language it was. My own speech is RP plus a certain amount of Croydon. You're right about "twp" and "lol" BTW. Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.



Tudor if I'm right wasn't the Tudor Dynasty started by Henry V's widowed wife Elaine? Having a fling with a high ranking Welshman with surname Tudor whilst she retired to Leeds Castle in Kent.



I'm at work at the moment but I'll check my facts when I get home.

Yes I was right except it was Catherine of Valois