Cornish Solidarity was consolidated as a pressure group after the closure of South Crofty, the last hard rock mine in Cornwall, in March 1998.
[2] In March 1998, hundreds of Cornish Solidarity campaigners staged a protest on the Tamar Bridge.
[1][2] In July 1998, Cornish Solidarity staged its last major protest, in which over 1,000 protestors blocked the Tamar Bridge.
[1] Since achieving many of its aims, Cornish Solidarity has undertaken a self-imposed hibernation vowing to return to fight any attempt to attack or alter Cornwall's ethnic diversity, boundaries or constitutional status.
[1] In 1998, Cornwall was recognised by the UK government as having "distinct cultural and historical factors reflecting a Celtic background",[3] thus allowing it to be separated in a regional and economic sense from Devon.