The Mine On The Landscape
(Boulby, North Riding)
It appeared like the recurring nightmare
Of the Cornish china clay factory in Par:
A blot on a carefully written essay,
A monstrosity, an industrial calamity,
An alien depositary
Amongst agricultural farmland
And visible, unmissable from afar…
Agape, I realised that this impediment
Upon the Cleveland landscape
Might be visible from my accommodation,
As it loomed ominously larger and nearer
To the shepherd’s hut, my September escape…
But the mine was not visible
From the south side of Ridge Lane
And from that realisation
My relief was tangible,
As a steep wooded valley,
Fields, animals and grain
Appeared before me, its beauty apparent…
Pete Ray
September 2020
I really thought that there would be no getting away from the mine (which produces Polyhalite for use as fertiliser) but the shepherd’s hut in Staithes turned out to be ideally situated…
Par beach in Cornwall, near Fowey is spoilt at the western end by the ugliness of a china clay factory and docks and despite the general beauty of the seaside there, one’s eyes cannot help turning towards the monstrous industrial site…
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