Cornish Pasty

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>'If you haven't been to Moonta you haven't travelled' was one of the sayings of the Cornishmen who worked the copper mines of Moonta South Australia. In </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Cornish Pasty </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>(which combines the earlier </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Cornish Pasty </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>and </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Cousin Jacks and Jennys</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>) Oswald Pryor celebrates the wit of these miners whose sturdy self-reliance and deep religious feeling were leavened with a quaint sense of humour.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Oswald Pryor knew the Cousin Jacks and Jennys of the area well for he was born at Moonta in 1881 and worked in the mines from the age of thirteen until 1923 when the mines closed. It was his father Captain James Pryor together with Captain H.R. Hancock often the butt of the miners' wit who helped develop the Moonta mines.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>These cartoons first published in </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Bulletin</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> capture the atmosphere of the Cornish mining settlements where close-knit communities kept up their old customs of carol-singing church-going and band music while developing a fierce loyalty to their new surroundings.</span></p><p></p>