Tregargus Woods ( Hidden Valley )

From a stroll in some newly found ( for me anyway ) woods that are fairly local, the area is renowned for being in the china clay area and has plenty of decaying architecture, the light wasn't great so more visits will be needed to show it to its best, but some early morning low light was superb.

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Very much like the lighting in the first 2

What he says!

What they both say

Looks a place with lots of potential

Superb set !!! Liked all three very much !

Yes. I'd like to go there. Lovely set.

Thank you all for your kind comments, its certainly a place to be visited / re-visited.

Here's a few of the decaying architecture, lots about and fairly well hidden, all remnants of the China Clay industry,

Oooh!
Nice!
Liking the wheel
And the lines in no 2

Thanks Les

The lines are sand and mica drags, The slurry is pumped into these “drags”, which are troughs with a very gradually slope to them. The slurry moves slowly through them, allowing the sand and mica time to settle out. Only water and china clay flow over the top of the end of the trough. The drags had to be cleaned of sand around every eight hours.

The area to the right, looks to have been wide enough for a narrow gauge railway where possibly the sand and mica would have been taken away and it could have run over the archway shown as its generally in that direction .