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carnkie
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17 years ago

Outside the Gold Centre, Redruth, commemorating the two miners who found the famous Welcome Stranger nugget.

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The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.

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Peter Burgess
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17 years ago

Has anyone else got photos of good mining statues?

I quite like this one. The coal mines at Varpalota in Hungary are now closed. I believe there was a time when political prisoners worked there.

carnkie
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17 years ago

I'm actually quite well known for my appalling taste but I quite like this. Chisholm's Iron Man Statue was built as a tribute to the iron ore miners of the Mesaba, Cuyuna and Vermilion Iron Ranges of northeastern Minnesota. It is a reminder to travelers of who provided this country with iron ore to win two world wars and help build the United States.

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Forget the b******T

The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.

Roy Morton
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17 years ago

These guys always look as if they had once been models for a Cadburys advertisment.
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Personal feelings aside... I hope the information board is somewhat more accurate than this one beneath the Carnon Valley Viaduct.
I wonder who did the proof reading? and I'm sure £100 pounds in the 18th century was a goodly sum..It's not bad now come to think of it 😉

56 Grams = A fifth of an ounce! I must get my Kruger Rands re-calibrated. :lol: :lol:

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