Ty Gwyn
12 years ago
They seem to have had 1.6 million 5yrs ago,

Maybe the man who drinks Sneck Lifter can explain ,seems a lot of money not long back ,to warrant more now,
simonrail
12 years ago
The new visitor centre seems to be suffering from subsidence and it's not even built yet!
:confused:
Yes, I'll have it - what is it?
Buckhill
12 years ago
The new visitor centre, from what I saw a couple of years ago, may mainly be to preach the creed of how it is so wonderful to no longer have to work in hell-holes like the place beneath due to the area now being "Britain's Energy Coast" and a "leader" in all things nuclear, wind, solar and tidal.

There have been several missed opportunities over the past decade or so to develop a mining museum. For example - selling for scrap dozens of arches donated in order to create an "underground experience" because "they were rusty" ::) might hint at what the completed will or will not be.

Don't worry about the subsidence - it'll be a few years before that affects anything. The whole coastline has been eroding for centuries and the "thousands of tons of spoil" supposedly causing the damage is a red herring spouted by the local council to blame someone else for what they can't stop - i.e. mother nature. The spoil is only moving because they moved most of it onto the already shifting areas when they took over and cleared the site 20 years ago.

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