Photo Post Of The Week

In which we’re still visiting Cornwall

Written by Forest Pines; published at 9:14 am on December 12th, 2008.
Filed under: Photobloggery.

Still August, still beside the seaside.

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Keyword noise: Chapel Porth, Cornwall, Geevor, Newquay, photography, photos, St Agnes

Photo post of the week

In which we visit Cornwall

Written by Forest Pines; published at 9:05 am on December 5th, 2008.
Filed under: Photobloggery.

This week, still from my summer holiday uploads: castles and derelict mineshafts.

The engine house in the bottom row is the well-known Towanroath engine house near St Agnes. The name probably isn’t that well-known, but as it’s perched halfway up a cliffside over the Atlantic, it’s a stock location for Cornish landscape shoots; so much so that it was on the cover of one of the guide books we took with us.* I remember it appearing in the 1980s children’s horror film Haunters Of The Deep, which starts with two of the characters looking down the grated-over mineshaft next to the engine house and listening to the sound of the sea coming up it.

* the Rough Guide to Devon and Cornwall, 2007 edition.

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Keyword noise: castles, Chapel Porth, Cornwall, engine house, Haunters Of The Deep, holiday, mine, mineshaft, photography, photos, Restormel, Restormel Castle, St Agnes, summer, Towanroath