We visited the Minack Theatre which was amazing. Completely blew us away. Rowena Cade created the theatre she was the architect and the builder. She was quite elderly by the time she was building the theatre and it is an amazing feat to have carried sand up the side of the cliff in hessian bags like she did. She also found these 12 foot long wooden beams on the beach and carried them up the cliff. On returning to beach she found some customs officials who asked her if she had seen any wooden beams from a Spanish shipwreck, she said, yes she had, and had carried them up the cliff to her theatre. They took one look up the cliff and decided that there was no way this lady could have carried them up there and they left. The beams are now part of the dressing rooms for the performers.
Thursday, May 24, 2012
One of many tin mines that dot the moors around Cornwall.
We visited the Minack Theatre which was amazing. Completely blew us away. Rowena Cade created the theatre she was the architect and the builder. She was quite elderly by the time she was building the theatre and it is an amazing feat to have carried sand up the side of the cliff in hessian bags like she did. She also found these 12 foot long wooden beams on the beach and carried them up the cliff. On returning to beach she found some customs officials who asked her if she had seen any wooden beams from a Spanish shipwreck, she said, yes she had, and had carried them up the cliff to her theatre. They took one look up the cliff and decided that there was no way this lady could have carried them up there and they left. The beams are now part of the dressing rooms for the performers.
We visited the Minack Theatre which was amazing. Completely blew us away. Rowena Cade created the theatre she was the architect and the builder. She was quite elderly by the time she was building the theatre and it is an amazing feat to have carried sand up the side of the cliff in hessian bags like she did. She also found these 12 foot long wooden beams on the beach and carried them up the cliff. On returning to beach she found some customs officials who asked her if she had seen any wooden beams from a Spanish shipwreck, she said, yes she had, and had carried them up the cliff to her theatre. They took one look up the cliff and decided that there was no way this lady could have carried them up there and they left. The beams are now part of the dressing rooms for the performers.
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that is so weird (oh I dont mean Col)
wow what a view!
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