Tracey Thorne
Altered Landscape
2021
'When you were gone'
Photograph| Pump Engine House to Pascoe’s Shaft,
Wheal Francis, Carnkie 2021 overlay Jeffery Thorne and
Tracey Thorne on Gwitihan Beach 1973.
'Miner'
Photograph| Family Passport issued in 1974 Jeffery
Parsons(b1949)occupation miner and
Tracey Thorne daughter.
'After you died I looked For you in the
places that you had been!'
Photographs| South Crofty Tin Mine, Pool, Cornwall in 2012.
'Persons Below. This is where you were and are!'
Photograph| South Crofty Tin Mine, Pool, Cornwall in 2012.
'Shotfirer'
Photograph| Jeff Parsons, shotfier, South Crofty Tin Mine,
Pool, Cornwall 1971.
'Underground Politics'
Photograph| Level 11, Wheal Jane Tin Mine, Cornwall 1986.
Wheal Jane, near Baldhu outside Truro, closed in 1991 after the collapse of the Cornish mining industry. When mine-water pumping was stopped in 1992, groundwater rose through the abandoned workings and escaped into the local river system, releasing vast quantities of metal-contaminated water. The pollution severely affected the Carnon River and the Fal Estuary and is regarded as one of the most serious mine-water contamination events in the UK. While the closure brought major job losses and long-term social impact to local communities, its environmental consequences have been enduring, requiring ongoing treatment and monitoring decades later.
South Crofty tin mine, near Camborne, remained operational until 1998, when it closed after more than 400 years of production. Its closure—widely reported by the media marked the end of deep tin mining in Cornwall and symbolised the final collapse of an industry that had shaped the region’s landscape, labour, and identity for centuries.
'Everyone's gone Home, The Mines our shut!'
Photograph| South Crofty Tin Mine, Pool, Cornwall in 2020.
South Croft Tin Mine
Clwyd Cap over mine shaft Wheal Busy
Show jumping ground on the former Pendarves Tin Mine site.
South Croft Tin Mine
'The Altered Landscape'
Selected Images 2020.