Saint Day, Redruth, Truro, Carn Brea, Carn Marth

I went for some long walks around the old Redruth tin mining area and came upon this path under the former railway line (the railway line is now a minor road in this section). Possibly better on full screen.

Saint Day, Cornwall. H. A. N. W. E. everyone (and a belated HFF! - although HFF seems to have been removed from the groupd list)

Cornwall, Redruth, granite tor of Carn Brae. St Ives Bay can just be seen in the distance.

From Carn Brae to Carn Marth, near Redruth. Between 300 and 150 years ago this was one of the most industrialized places on the Planet. You wouldn't know it now! (Although one old chimney-stack is still just visible in the valley to the right).

Carn Brae, Redruth, Cornwall. (One of the very few photos of Cornwall not previously uploaded on ipernity. I did post a few of these on Pano which one or two of you may remember.)

View from Carn Marth to Carrick Roads (Falmouth Docks just about visible), Cornwall. Yes, there is a fence in there! Photo from 2011, first posted on ipernity 2016. Montbretia and heather in the foreground.

Rodochiton in my Mum's garden, Saint Day, Cornwall. Originally poted in August 2017.

My Mother's garden, St Day, Cornwall. Taken 2011, First posted on ipernity 2017.

Not named after the citrus fruit but after a prominent Truro family.

Saint Day, Cornwall. Best on black (z).

Mum's garden. Saint Day, Cornwall.

Nowadays, Gwennap hamlet is in St Day Parish. However, until the late 18th century - when St Day became the major tin, copper and arsenic-mining centre of the world, St Day was in Gwennap parish. Today, both places are utterly insignificant, and all the better for that!!

Saint Day, Cornwall

Saint Day, Cornwall. The steeple of the old, disused and now collapsed parish church can be seen on the horizon. In the period 1770 to 1850 this view would have been one of utter devastation and industry with mining for tin, copper and arsenic all happening here. It was called the 'richest square mile in the world'. Then it all suddenly stopped as cheaper labour and mining costs for these minerals were found in South East Asia amongst other places (slave labour in the main). Nothing remains of this previous hive of activity, I'm pleased to say..

At the back is the former garage but it is now my mum's potting shed, painting studio, storage space and so on! Someone on Panoramio assumed that it was the house of my parents!

Saint Day, Cornwall

HFF for Pam.

I have published this shot before, but what the ... ...