Walk TWO: CLARITY AND OPACITY
REFLECTIONS ON A RIVER INTERRUPTED, HYBRID LANDSCAPES AND THE HIDEOUS SUBLIME
Setting out from King Edward Mine, this walk proceeds through Carn Arthen, Brea and Tuckingmill, passing the South Crofty Site. Then, after crossing the A30 to Tolvaddon, descends to the Great Wheal Seton settlement tanks, home to the scarce blue-tailed damselflies and acid-mine-drainage-loving bacteria.
From Tolvaddon, the return route travels through Camborne’s modern industrial estates to Heartlands Museum and Red River Café, from there it is approx 40 minutes walk back to King Edward Mine.
We had several invited guests for the event: Karen Hudson-Edwards, Professor in Sustainable Mining at University of Exeter, photographer Jem Southam, who documented the Red River from 1982 to 1987, and artist filmmaker Naomi Frears who has been commissioned to make new work in response to the river. We were joined by three members of the Red River Rescuers group: Jo Poland, Laura Fox and dragonfly expert, Steve Jones. The walk was documented by Field Notes, producers on the project.
Photo courtesy Field Notes
6. Tucking Mill decline
8. Dolcath Tin Mine, Camborne
10. The valley at Brea showing the old waterfall that cascaded from the ‘Trout River’ down to the Red River. See middle right of photo, peering out from the gorse, above the old fire place on the base of the old site office. Circa 1982/3. Photo courtesy Steve Jones
11. The Red River at Tuckingmill. Photo courtesy Historic England
13. Bickford Smith
14. Bickford Smith
15. Camborne-Redruth Bypass construction - Red River culvert at Tolvaddon. Photo courtesy Kresen Kernow, REF: corn02969.
16. Camborne-Redruth Bypass construction - Red River culvert at Tolvaddon. Photo courtesy Kresen Kernow, REF: corn02967.
20. Tolvaddon Stamps
Photo courtesy Field Notes