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Mine Manager at South Crofty for almost thirty years Died: 11th February, 1911 Laid to rest: Roskear churchyard, Tuckingmill Josiah Paull was born in Camborne at Roskear Villas in 1871 to a father from Cornwall and a mother from Somerset; his father was likely to have worked in the mining sector

Pioneering Cornish engineer Died: 22nd April, 1833 Commemorated: on Station Road, Pool, where he was born. Richard Trevithick was born in Pool, Cornwall. During his working life he developed steam-powered pumping equipment that allowed mine-shafts to be sunk to greater depths than previously, all