Beacons and Snowdonia Landscape Film

[rolandtherat]

Hello

I'm to do a Film about landscape and shot relationships in the coming months. I hope to include an interview with a retired coal miner, that focuses more on the landscape than politics. I have not visited either place before.

Does anyone have any ideas for questions I could ask, that would provoke conversation about the scenery, and the effect of mining on it?

Any help much appreciated

Roland

[dazbt]

No real idea how to answer your question Roland, but some years ago I visited a long abandoned mining area in the Wicklow Mountains where modern day ramblers and tourists traverse the old miner's paths and spoil heaps without any thought or recognition of the effort and heartache that went before them to form the contours and tracks that now provide their trampling pleasures ;

MINES OF GLENDALOUGH

Monuments of survival
Not of man, but of his doing,
Distant white but nearer grey.
Accumulations of inconvenience then,
Symbolic now of long spent pyres.
A residual epitaph to mining’s fortunes
Fortunes for a few, the misfortune of many.

The ancient lead mines of Glendalough
Set in the difficult distance then, as now
Sees today a pleasure seeking visitor
Who in hard earned unknowing ramble,
Pass the ghosts of harder worn men
Who in similar toil climbed the same paths
To start their day of earning.

[jakeofwinterhill]

Jake is planning to visit this area over the next few months , our aim is locate old mine workings , we will update this post with any blog posts we do,
jakeofwinterhill
jakeofwinterhill.blogspot.com.