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 ...

In 1745 he found it, at Tregonning Hill in Cornwall. By the mid 19th century 65,000 tonnes of china clay were being mined from the St Austell area every year by 7,000 workers. Kaolin is ...

The museum two miles north of St Austell is located within two former Victorian clay works. It tells the story of the china clay industry and the people who worked and lived in a landscape defined by ...

The Wheal Martyn China Clay Museum showcases St Austell's kaolin heritage. Courtesy: Shutterstock “The discovery of China clay (kaolin) just north of the town transformed everything, as this ...

A MUSEUM which celebrates china clay mining is one of four museums in the South West to receive funding from Arts Council England. Wheal Martyn Clay Works, near St Austell, has been awarded over ...

and the China Clay Country Park. One CornwallLive reader said St Austell is going “the same way as so many high streets”. They added: “We need free parking in all high streets for at least ...

St Austell Brewery has expanded its managed pub portfolio and has acquired the lease of The Godolphin situated in Marazion. The Cornish pub now joins the brewery’s 46-strong managed estate. The site’s ...

Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT Carlyon Bay’s formation began in the 19th century when the thriving tin and china clay industries in the St Austell area, known as the Clay Country ...

Just outside the Cornish town of St Austell lie the vast open cast mines of a china clay industry, which is now long past its heyday. But these pits also contain some of the most important ...

Other factories producing EVs and EV parts are proposed in the West Midlands and Wearside. On the ground in St Austell, the landscape is scarred by clay china pits and mountains of dirt, the legacy of ...

Imerys is to close one of its seven china clay pits in the St Austell area. One refinery and two drying units will also be closed in Cornwall; and a pit at Lee Moor - north of Plymouth in Devon - will ...