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Weekly Photo Challenge – Relic

Here in Cornwall, UK, we are surrounded by relics from the tin and copper mining industry. Engine houses and other old mine works dot the countryside and the coastline and The Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site, or ‘Cornish Mining’, was inscribed on the World Heritage List on July 13 2006. World Heritage status gives international recognition to Cornish Mining’s contribution to the development of our modern industrial society.
Click on this link if you would like to know more about the history of Cornish mining and miners. Cornish miners took their expertise all over the world and it is said that wherever there is a hole in the ground, you’ll find a ‘Cousin Jack’, a Cornishman. It’s a fascinating site. Please click on any photo for greater detail.

Killifreth

Killifreth Mine information

Killifreth, side

Looking up inside Killifreth

Mineral Tramways Project

Wheal Busy

Great Wheal Busy Mines

One of the Wheal Busy buildings

At Wheal Busy

For other great photos in this challenge, click here.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on July 17, 2014 in architecture, Beauty, Cornwall, local history, photography, Postaday 2014, Weekly photo challenge

Tags: Cornish mining, Killifreth, The Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site, tin and copper mining, Wheal Busy, World heritage status

Jellyfish, Swans and Engine Houses

09 Jul

1 We spent the morning photographing the places we had lived in and around Perranporth this morning and also had a lovely time on the beach. There were dozens of pretty jellyfish in the sands and in the little pools left by the outgoing tide. I’m not sure that they would be fun to meet in the water but I would love to know their names.

Jellyfish 2

Jellyfish 1

2 On the beach near Chapel Rock and in the freshwater stream that runs from the hills into the sea we came across two adult swans with seven cygnets. I love how the wind blew the feathers on one of the parents and, less obviously, on the cygnets.

Swan family

3 We spent the afternoon photographing! This time we went in search of our industrial heritage, the relics of tin mining that are all over Cornwall, the wonderful structures that housed the beam engines that pumped the water out of the tin and copper mines. I will do a whole post devoted to them but here is the most beautiful and elegant of them all, Killifreth, Hawke’s Shaft Pumping Engine House.