St Teath: cutting out the slate
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The photograph on this page of St Teath: cutting out the slate by Martin Bodman as part of the Geograph project.
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Image: © Martin Bodman Taken: 22 Aug 2008
A telephoto view of twenty-first century quarrying at the Delabole slate quarry. Only five skilled men work in the quarry pit in the twenty-first century; hundreds worked here in the mid-nineteenth century
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