Views from Botallick near St Just Cornwall

[Surfer]

Went out for the day and got some good pic of the old mine workings at Botallick near St Just Cornwall, fascinating place must have been a hard life when you see where the mine working are built still trying to figure how they got the oar up to the top Surfer8-)


Have put the pictures of Botallick Mine on under Members pictures so everyone can have a look

[snapper]

love the Pictures have never been there wouldn't believe that, have lived here a long time, Need to get out more all i see is the Bowling greens
Its Sad:rolleyes:

[kiwi bowler]

Hi Surfer, brilliant photo's, I just love pictures with the sea and scenery:grin:

[Sam]

The Pics are Brilliant with views like this, wonder why we spend so much money going abroad :D

[Roo]

What great photos and scenery, although it makes you think how hard a life it must have been working those mines in such an exposed place!!

We are so fortunate in these days able to 'Bowl' with a lot of machinery doing a lot of the hard work.:roll:

[Flyfire]

What a view, the people in Cornwall must have been desperate to build mines right on the edge of the cliff, it takes some imagination as to how they managed it so many years ago without the modern lifting equipment we have now, must have been a very hard life:(

[firer]

Stunning Pictures

Put Botallic into Goggle search engine and after a bit of searching came up with this

1721 Botallack Mine sett is a very old one, granted from the Boscawen family.
1778 William Pryce reported that the mine was worked for 80 fathoms length out to sea (i.e. beyond the high water mark), and the workings reached to three feet from the sea bed
1813 an advertisement in stated that it had produced over £100,000 of ore over the previous twenty years. The house may have acquired a new engine in 1819 as a 1½ year-old 22-inch engine was advertised for sale.
1820s the mine was considered to be largely exhausted above adit.

Had a fascinating read marvelous that the old workings are still standing they really knew how to build things in them days, wonder how many of our modern buildings will still be standing after a few hundred years would love to see anymore pictures that you take :D
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[Sam]

Thanks for that Firer, really interesting history about the mining works in Cornwall sure I read somewhere the National had taken over some of these sites, good thing before they disappear forever Sam:rolleyes:

[Blondie]

Think I should move, something magic about views like this, also went onto Google makes interesting reading not a history person but to think they were working under the sea going back that many years must have been incredible dangerous :rolleyes:

[E T]

Thanks for such a great photo, so busy in the Bowling season we do not see what is on our doorstep.
We have lots of now abandoned coal mines, they do represent our past and how hard a life it must have been.

Thanks again for the history.

[wrong bias]

like the pics ,must be the first ones ive seen this year with blues sky,s in them:)

[Lardy]

Got to agree with you Wrong Bias wish I had the time and the views to go and see, spend most of my weekends trying to catch up on things I should have done, LARDY:)

[barry]

The views are great,
Looks good when the weather is all right going back it would have been hard going being a miner walking to work in all weathers read some where the average age miners lived to was forty
:(

[mary]

Wonderful Picture am very envious Surfer you live in a lovely location
I know when you are bowling all the time its hard to get out and see these lovely places, someone I know who lives near the coast said the Holiday makers see more of the scenery than we do
Must make more time to go out and about:D