On 21 September, St Austell will host the third annual Whitegold festival, an event that draws on the area’s china clay mining history and celebrates its many modern day ceramics artists.

The plan is part of a multimillion-pound regeneration project including rebranding St Austell as "Clay Town" in tribute to it as the centre of Cornwall's china clay industry. It's hoped the town ...

He travelled the length and breadth of the UK searching for a similar material, striking gold when he discovered an enormous deposit of china clay near St Austell. Demand exploded. A harbour was ...

The china clay industry in Cornwall ... work has begun at its first new china clay pit in Cornwall for almost 30 years. The Higher Moor Pit, near St Austell, will cover 17 hectares (42 acres ...

Imerys is moving some of its business to Brazil and closing one of its seven china clay pits in the St Austell area, a refinery and two drying units. The French-owned company employs 2,000 people but ...

It wasn’t until the 18 th century that St Austell was anything more than a small mining town, but following the discovery of china clay pits this South Cornwall town became an influential and ...

China clay is piped to the harbour near St Austell in slurry form and then dried at the docks' dryers before being exported by boat, road or rail. The dryers for paper-coating clay will close by the ...

The statue was designed by Ms Brown to "visually connect with St Austell’s rich China clay heritage". But one resident said: "I do not believe this ‘statue’ represents the town or its heritage. "The ...

The family of an artist known as The Secret Painter are hoping people will help solve a mystery surrounding two of his artworks. The paintings by Eric Tucker are believed to depict China Clay Country ...

49 x 59.5 cm. (19.3 x 23.4 in.) ...

The plan is part of a multimillion-pound regeneration project including rebranding St Austell as "Clay Town" in tribute to it as the centre of Cornwall's china clay industry. It's hoped the town ...