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English: Ruined mine building, Penn Recca The remains of one of the buildings at Penn Recca slate mine, in woodland on the side of a steep valley. At http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/Staverton/Staverton1850.html , Genuki quotes a fascinating account from William White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Devonshire 1850: "Penn Recca Slate Quarries ... have been worked for centuries, but only on a small scale till the last eight years, during which the present spirited company of proprietors have expended about £30,000, chiefly in tunnelling and open cuttings, which dispense with machinery for lifting, and afford facilities for economical working, possessed by no other quarries in the west of England. About 100 hands are now employed in getting the slate and preparing it for roofing purposes. It is found in immense blocks, and is of a beautiful sage-green colour. Great quantities of this durable slate are now sent to various parts of the kingdom, and many of the farm-houses, &c., in this neighbourhood, have been roofed with it ..." So the greenish tinge visible in the slate building is perhaps not merely due to algae, moss and creepers. |
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