Random Mine of the Day : Great Wheal Martha, or New Great Consols.

Oct 24, 2015 21:56


New Great Consols mine in Luckett has come and gone, come and gone.  Mineworks in this valley probably started out as surface tin panning along the stream at the bottom of the valley in the late Middle Ages, it was first recorded as Wheal Martha in 1836, and it closed for the last time in 1946.  It was a mine that produced copper, silver, tin and a ( Read more... )

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puddleshark October 25 2015, 10:26:20 UTC
....when escaping flue gases caused the temporary closure of the village school...

"It's health and safety gone mad, I tell you!"

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bunn October 25 2015, 11:23:39 UTC
You just know *someone* said that! Also 'I grew up breathing arsenical fumes, they never did ME any harm'.

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wellinghall October 25 2015, 16:20:49 UTC
My O level physics teacher was an elderly, bent, crabbed old lady. In one lesson, someone asked if it was safe for us to be handling radioactive substances, and she replied that she had been doing it every term for forty-odd years. We all looked at her, and resolved to take extra care ...

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