Botallack

There's very little more redolent of a Cornish landscape than a tin mine engine house.

This one is on the cliffs at Botallack, near St Just, towards Lands End. It clings precariously onto the very edge of the landscape, still solid after many decades of disuse, as much part of our industrial heritage as slag heaps and old railway lines.

It sits alongside more traditional marine beauty, as much part of the magnificent coastal landscape as the thrift and the granite boulders so plentiful in west Cornwall.