Snailbeach Lead Mine - FrankM photo - Olympus DSLR Challenge photos at pbase.com


2005

Snailbeach Lead Mine in Shropshire UK is now an industrial museum. My Gt.gt grandfather worked there as an engineer in the 1830's.

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Brenda Tate		15-Aug-2012 18:06
So rich in atmosphere! It takes the mind away and back ....

Michael Ramsay		14-Aug-2012 20:05
A great industrial landscape, I love visiting places like this.

Guest		10-Aug-2012 09:10
I really don't know but I think it would be foolish to imagine they didn't. You have to see this too in the context of the industrial revolution which cost a great many lives. My Gt Gt Grandfather lived until the age of 67 (1794 - 1861) so probably he wasn't poisoned(?) Frank

Shirley Haden		09-Aug-2012 02:57
This is a very large plant for the 1830s I would think. Do you know if the men that workded there ever got lead poisoning from working around all the lead? Like the men of the next generation who have died from cancer due to asbestos. I wonder what it is that the people these days are working around to kill them, probably crazy stuff put in our food to make it last forever on a shelf perhaps? It's a wonderful photo Frank, it really is sitting on a beach front isn't it.

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