Kenneth Hedley Trevorrow
1936 to 2009aged 73
Mine surveyor, Geevor Mine, Pendeen, 1952 to 1990
- Born
- 22 April 1936, St Just in Penwith
- Died
- 17 February 2009, Penzance
He went into Geevor at sixteen behind his father and came out of it at fifty three because there was no Geevor left to be in. He was the mine's surveyor for twenty six of those years, which means the underground plan of Geevor as it finally stood is in his handwriting. The tin price collapsed in 1985; Wheal Jane and South Crofty got rescue packages and Geevor did not; on 16 February 1990 the mine went to care and maintenance and he and his son walked down the hill on the same afternoon. He was widowed in 1998 and married again in 2003, aged sixty seven, and told his daughter it was the best five years he had had since 1989.
Accomplishments
- Thirty eight years at Geevor Mine, twenty six of them as mine surveyor1952
From 1952 to 1990. He went in at sixteen behind his father and came out at fifty three because there was no Geevor left to be in.
- Drew the final underground survey plans of Geevorabout 1989
The mine as it finally stood is in his handwriting. Those plans are now the core of the archive his own daughter catalogues.
- Gave evidence to the 1986 lobbying effort over the Cornish tin rescue package1986
The International Tin Council collapsed in 1985 and the tin price fell from about nine thousand pounds a tonne to about three thousand four hundred. Wheal Jane and South Crofty got rescue packages. Geevor did not.