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 .

#1 and #3 for me, well seen

The colour version just edges it for me with the wreckage

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,

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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according to Dr Google

The plant in the image is likely Amsonia hubrichtii, also known as Arkansas bluestar or Hubricht's bluestar

SRS have a used Pentax 50 - 200 on at £59 with 12 month warranty

https://www.srsmicrosystems.co.uk/dpt/used-equipment/used-pentax-da-50-200mm-f4-...

some changes just 10 days after the first set were shot, with some nice light thrown in as well and some rain of course.

From a local stroll Tuesday morning searching for autumn colours, still very green in the south west, hopefully this weekend chilly snap will enhance the colours more.

K1 with the DFA* 70 - 200 F2.8

Thanks Stephen,

it was 3 locations, Porthgwarra, Botallack and Porthcorno