We continue our series on towns the guidebook writers skip with visits to Gillingham, Camborne, East Kilbride and Stockport
Where tourists seldom tread, parts 1-9
Chy? I wasn’t familiar with the Ordnance Survey abbreviation for chimneys until I set off to walk around the ghost mines of Camborne. On every tump stand houses for engines built to raise ore from, and drop men into, the Great Flat Lode – a rock field that coughed up 90,000 tonnes of tin, worth $3 billion at today’s rates. Chimneys. It all went up in smoke.
Continue reading… We continue our series on towns the guidebook writers skip with visits to Gillingham, Camborne, East Kilbride and StockportWhere tourists seldom tread, parts 1-9Chy? I wasn’t familiar with the Ordnance Survey abbreviation for chimneys until I set off to walk around the ghost mines of Camborne. On every tump stand houses for engines built to raise ore from, and drop men into, the Great Flat Lode – a rock field that coughed up 90,000 tonnes of tin, worth $3 billion at today’s rates. Chimneys. It all went up in smoke. Continue reading… Life and style, England holidays, Scotland holidays, Travel, Wales holidays, LS Lowry, Architecture, Weekend breaks
