St Teath: cutting out the slate

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St Teath: cutting out the slate

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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Image Location

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Latitude
50.62478
Longitude
-4.721529