Wheal Coates Tin Mine

We don't know how lucky we are, Andy. Nice colour, great shot... John.

That is SO true, John!
Many thanks!

Well captured monument - both: industrial and nature one!

Thank you, Leon. This would have been Hell-On-Earth in the 1850s!

Thank you, Erhard!

Superb shot, looks to be a most interesting place.

Thank you Adrian. Well the TV companies think so as Poldark was filmed all around here (both the 1975 and the recent versions). I haven't seen a single episode of either.

Thank you Larry!

Que j'aime ce tapis magique, une véritable splendeur visuelle, merciiiiiiiiii Andy.

Oh WoW!!!! Great colours Andy! Quite sad how something that caused so many deaths and paid very little now enhances the coastline even in this state.

I quite agree, Rosa!

WOWWWWWWW a dreamlike heather carpet, Andy !!! Magnificent view !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

wonderful!!!!!

A landscape of Celtic legends!!!!!

Super composition !

Was für eine Blütenpracht als Rahmen für dies altehrwürdige Gemäuer. Wunderbar.

Philippe,
funtor,
Jocelyne,
Rosa,
Ian,
Marie-claire,
Annemarie,
Nouchet,
Ulrich,
Bernd,
Very many thanks to you all!

Many thanks, Cheryl!

Thank you, Erich!

Great compo and perspective, lovely foreground colours.

Great composition...............but the foreground really makes this shot for me with those gorgeous plants and flowers.

........and the face!

It's gone now, Keith. I hope you don't mind!

Beautiful autumn colours.

John,
Keith, OK, but no prize from me!
Bev,
Fred,
Pat, Not that far from the other path shot!
cammino,
Many thanks to you all!

A splendid, very well composed photo and a very interesting story.

Peter,
Schussentaler,
Sami,
micritter,
Thank you all!

very lovely old ruins and what a gorgeous flowered carpet !

Une très belle image !!

Nora,
Lucette,
Many thanks to you both!

A carpet of heather and other flowers...I like that so much and this is the perfect weather for me Andy ;)

Me too. It's 31C in Madrid and 20C tonight. October records have been broken (as well as heads in Barcelona - sorry, I try to avoid politics here!).
Thank you, Tanja!

Lucette,
Tanja,
thank you both!

Un grand grand WAOUHHHH je ne l'avais pas vue cette magnifique photo
je te souhaite une bonne fin de semaine

like a spy..
beautiful moor

Jenny,
Rol,
Ksenia Kasandra,
Christabel,
Thank you very much!

Many thanks, Angelika!

So beautiful and romantic now but hell on earth then I should think. " Not a hundred years ago, a system of servitude still existed in Scotland, sanctioned by the practice of two centuries, by virtue of which colliers and their families were fixed to the soil almost as effectually as if they had been bought in the slave-market of New Orleans or born in the hut of a negro on some Virginian plantation." I hope the same system didn't exist in the tin mines.

Thanks Jean, In some ways it was a little fairer but amazingly, in the early days, such was the competition for jobs down the mines that miners had to PAY for the privilege of a job! So they started off in debt!

Thank you, Gudrun!

Thank you, Claudia!

Iconic. Wonderful carpet of colour in the foreground

Thank you Dorsetlass and welcome!

Marvellous purple tapestry!

Thank you, Dimas!

Wonderful colours and a superb image, Andy
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