A bal maiden, from the Cornish language bal, a mine, and the English "maiden", a young or unmarried woman, was a female manual labourer working in the...

Look up Bal or bal in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bal or BAL may refer to: Bal (surname), including a list of people with the name Bal (given name)...

(also found in Devon) Bal – a mine (in use after the year 1800, from Cornish language, related to palas, meaning 'to dig') Bal maiden – a woman working at...

A gook was a piece of protective headgear worn by bal maidens (female manual labourers in the mining industries of Cornwall and Devon). The gook was a...

August 16, 2023. Retrieved August 17, 2023. "Stripped & Teased | Credits". Bal-Maiden Films. Archived from the original on 2011-07-07. Retrieved 2011-06-21...

dressing in trousers was considered unfeminine and degenerate by society. Bal maiden - women who worked the Cornish tin mines Victorian dress reform Footnotes...

"Maid" In Anglo-Cornish dialect "maid" is commonly used to mean "girl"; Bal maidens were women working at the mines of Cornwall, at smashing ore &c. "A day...

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World War, to provide feldspar for electrical porcelain with at least 50 bal maidens separating the feldspar. Since 2011 the quarry has been an EarthCache...

Cornish for 'place of work' or 'mine'. Another term for 'mine' is 'bal', as in 'bal maidens', the women who worked on the surface. Some local people continue...