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Carnglaze Caverns & the Rum Store A visit to Carnglaze Caverns near St.Neot will take you into the underground world of the slate quarrymen and miners. Carnglaze Caverns are set in the now very pretty wooded valley of the River Loveny. The caverns were originally a slate quarry, that "grew" underground to reach the better quality slate. Slate was quarried up until the early 1900s, when the cost of transport became too great, and their use decreased from there on, but there are no doubt many houses around Cornwall that have Carnglaze slate! During the Second World War, the main cavern was used for storing rum for the Royal Navy, thus its name... The Rum Store! This main cavern, or "The Rum Store" has now become a venue for a complete range of musical events, due in no small part to the excellent acoustics that are to be found here. Tickets for classical, operatic, folk and rock concerts, and other performances, all sell like hot cakes! For full details of forth-coming concerts and events, check out the Carnglaze Caverns website. ~ The main caverns site is down in the Deep Dark Woods, just off the road up to St.Neot...
An old Slate Quarryman (or Slate Miner?) at work underground...
Underground in the old workings...
~ The Rum Store The main cavern at Carnglaze, "The Rum Store", has now become a venue for a complete range of musical events, due in no small part to the excellent acoustics that are to be found here.
A place for wonderfully atmospheric concerts... whether it be Rock (very suitable!) or Classical...
~ The Enchanted Dell One of the Fairies in the "Enchanted Dell" - a lovely walk in the hillside woods above the caverns...
~ While back in the old slate quarry...
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