July 20, 2011
For many centuries the presence of copper in the Lake District mountain rocks above Coniston Water provided a livelihood for people in the area. Looking at the area now it is not easy to imagine a time (much of it before modern-style industrialisation) in which people living in the shade of Coniston Old Man made [...]
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November 23, 2009
The copper mines around Coniston were worked from at least the middle of the 16th century and, with a number of breaks in production in between, up to end of the 19th when competition from high-grade ore imported from overseas killed this local Lake District industry. Coniston Old Man, the mountain behind Coniston village, was [...]
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