Oh, I do like to be beside the seaside (2)
I have a favourite walk part of the South West Coastal Path, on the north Cornish coast from. Trevaunce Cove, St. Agnes to Perranporth . Much has changed since I first walked the path over 60 years ago. I have changed, but the ever changing sea and the rocky coast seem untouched by time. Toiling up steep hills and making my way down over rocky paths, I make slow progress through a heritage landscape that still bears the scars of a tin mining past. As I stop to look back - at the cove and my life - different vistas open and I see things in a different lights and from different perspectives. Time has not left the landscape, nor me, unchanged. Back in the day, the Trevellas Valley was a noisy, busy place. Steam from coal fired boilers drove massive, thumping, pumps in engine houses. Water driven stamp mills crushed the ore. Horses and traction engines and all manner of mining folk competed with each other on the narrow...