Busy day today. We had arranged to meet one of Paul’s friends for coffee as they happened to be holidaying in Falmouth at the same time as us. We had a lovely catch up with some nice tea and cakes!
In July 2006, the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape was added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of this remarkable achievement in 2016, the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site Partnership has commissioned the creation of the Man Engine, a 12 metre high steam-powered giant who will quite literally stride the length of the Cornish Mining Landscape over the course of two weeks. The brainchild of Will Coleman, of Cornwall’s Golden Tree Productions, part man, part machine, the towering metal ‘Man Engine’ will have a real fire in his belly, a beating beam-engine in his heart and the ‘entire Industrial Revolution in his head.
The largest puppet ever made in Britain, the awe-inspiring cast-iron ‘Cornish Miner’, will be accompanied by more than a dozen ‘miners’ and ‘bal-maidens’ who will animate the steam-powered giant, heaving on coal, ensuring that flames roar, and steam belches.
The Man Engine was to make an appearance in Truro today at 2pm which just happened to coincide with Mia and Devon's arrival. Mia and Devon got to Truro just before us and we made our way down to Lemon Quay. Lemon Quay now is a large pedestrian area with lots of shops and resturants around the outside - the perfect place for the Man Engine to make and appearance.
It was a beautiful sunny day and everyone in the surrounding area had turned out to see him. They quay was crowded! Truro sits at the top of the river Fal and at one time where we were standing would have been a harbour and a quay where the tin that was mined would have been exported. The puppet was some site to see! He started crouched down and gradually got up to his full 11 meters high! We were glad that we had seen him.
Then back to the boat for a quiet night.
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