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Post by rolandtherat on Mar 4, 2012 9:07:40 GMT -5
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
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Post by dazbt on Mar 4, 2012 14:22:24 GMT -5
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.
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Post by jakeofwinterhill on Mar 28, 2012 4:27:42 GMT -5
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.
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