Tuesday 1 July ...

Camera: Nikon 8800

Smokin' Chimneys!

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.

Carnkie

Carn Brea Castle

Cornish music to entertain the crowd

A small crowd gathered around the rocks below the monument

The view to the SW between Four Lanes and Piece

Some of the first engine house chimneys to smoke

And another pair

More music and song

A stack beside the Great Flat Lode trail above Carnkie

Two more (sorry but I do not know the names of most of these mines)

Another good vantage point

This scene gives an idea of how it might have looked when the mines were working - back then it would have been even smokier

The two stacks of North Wheal Basset at Carnkie

Cow Parsley and wheat at Higher Carnkie