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^^what's it like reversed so the guy is walking left to right?
I just feel slightly odd reading the image from left to right and coming up against the guys walking the other way.
Negatives long gone, I'm afraid. When I was a child, Marriott's shaft was not only not capped but our water supply to Treskillard was pumped from there, filtered through sand and pumped to the 'village'. We got mains water from Stithians in 1966. The burras are gone - Elephant Burra was about twice as tall as the tallest building and Long Burra went most of the way to Piece. (Our childhood names for the burras - a burra is a dump of mine waste). As children we learnt to recognise where shafts were - not only near buildings but on field edges and in briar patches.Very nice set, John. I photographed here many years ago on a pretty wild, gloomy Cornish day, and got some very atmospheric photos, but sadly the negs are long lost. I recall that all the shafts were still open, and completely unfenced! The Marriotts shaft was wide, cylindrical and brick lined, and I believe descended some 6000ft. As I suffer from vertigo, I crawled up to it on my belly so as to peer into the stygian depths!
I went back a few years ago and the shafts are all capped and safe, and the old tramway is used by joggers, all very much tamer than it used to be.
I don't suppose you still have your old negatives?