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Tin Mine Wasteland. Post Industrial Cornwall series

By  Phil Whiting 1989 - 2008

Phil Whiting

After over 2,000 years of mining the last tin mine in Cornwall closed in 1999. Much of Cornwall's hinterland bears the scars of its mining heritage.
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