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No More Tin at Zennor
The beautiful Zennor and the moves to save the area from the return of the tinners.
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Overview
Planning permission has been granted for new tin exploration and some of the locals are not happy. Among them Cornish artist Patrick Heron. There is a campaign to protect the area considered to be one of the wildest stretches of coastland in England. Cottages in Zennor date to the sixteenth century and the community was dependent on Cornish tin mining and agriculture. The land at the coast is National Trust and includes Zennor Head.
Patrick Heron was a a British abstract artist member of the St Ives School which included Ben Nicholson with whom he shared a studio and Barbara Hepworth. He lived in Zennor which lies on the north coast of Cornwall and painted many abstract landscapes and portraits. He was a pacifist and a concientious objector in World War Two. DH Lawrence and Frieda Weekley (von Richthofen) resided in Zennor in 1915 but were accused of spying by signalling to German submarines but it is unsure whether this was a reaction to his novel The Rainbow, considered obscene at the time. Lawrence finished writing Women in Love in Zennor, which was published in 1920.
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