The Trevithick Society is one of the oldest industrial preservation societies in the UK, having been founded in 1935 to save the Levant beam winding engine from being scrapped. The Society is based in Cornwall but has interests in Cornish industry wherever it may be.
Membership is open to all who are interested in the region's great industrial past, whether or not they live in Cornwall. Members receive an annual Journal, containing original research material, and a quarterly newsletter. Members are also allowed free admission to several industrial sites in Cornwall.
The Society's website will be found HERE
The Trevithick Society, a registered educational charity (no. 246586), is the organisation for anyone who is interested in the industrial archaeology and all aspects of Cornwall's past.
One of the Society's most spectacular projects was the building in 2001 of the replica of Trevithick's Puffing Devil, surely the most wonderous of road vehicles. />
The Society takes its name from one of Britain's foremost inventors and pioneers of the Industrial Revolution, Richard Trevithick, a Cornishman whose name is inseparable from the development of steam power. Cornwall's mining industry was once the greatest in the world. Its needs spawned an inventive engineering industry that placed Cornwall in the forefront of the Industrial Revolution.
Over the years the Society has published a considerable number of books, many of which have featured in the pages of our Booklist, and all that are now available are featured here (but not all are in the Booklist)
