Kennal Vale – 200 years ago there would have been little or no beech forest here, the area was the site of gunpowder works. Difficult to imagine now. Check out previous blog post for more info on this field trip.
Some delegates walking along by the water carting leat.
18th or 19th Century relic of mining, looks neolithic!
Ships brought coal here and trains transported it to the mines. There was no coal in Cornwall so it came from Wales. There is little trace of this heavy industry now.
The Urbanomic team.
Point Mills Arsenic works
contaminated land.
Iron ore flooded into the river.
Iron pyrite
Gwennap Pit – a Methodist auditorium
Sunset from the roof of the Tate St Ives.
Intellectual Simulation 