Not every day

By ppatrick

Pied beauty?

This is Magpie Mine, a few miles west of Bakewell. The biggest of Derbyshire's lead mines, developed in the 1840s by the Cornishman John Taylor, it was also the last to remain in production a century later.

I thought because of the name it deserved to be black and white. In extras, the squat round building was a gunpowder store, and the wooden frame is where horses turned a capstan to draw the buckets of lead up the shaft.

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