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Tuesday 1 July ... |
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Smokin' Chimneys! |
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Monday, 7.40 p.m. As part of Imagineers Week, the National Trust have
helped arrange an event called Smokin' Chimneys to celebrate Cornwall's
mining heritage - You can see 21 mine chimney stacks smoking from the top
of Carn Brea this evening. |
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Carnkie |
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Carn Brea Castle |
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Cornish music to entertain the crowd |
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A
small crowd gathered around the rocks below the monument |
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The
view to the SW between Four Lanes and Piece |
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Some of the first engine house chimneys to smoke |
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And
another pair |
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More music and song |
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A
stack beside the Great Flat Lode trail above Carnkie |
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Two
more (sorry but I do not know the names of most of these mines) |
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Another good vantage point |
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This scene gives an idea of how it might have looked when the mines were
working - back then it would have been even smokier |
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The
two stacks of North Wheal Basset at Carnkie |
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Cow
Parsley and wheat at Higher Carnkie |
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