Oh dear me. Shame. Cos it seems to me to be a good way to 'eternalise' a way of life that went - so long ago now. But it does keep the boots on view, cos they're boots like no other miners' boots. Cos the tin-mines were always so wet, they had to have waterproof boots, not like the cleg-soled ones my Uncle Rich wore to his workplace in the coal mines of Nottinghamshire. (He had to change them before he went 'down' cos clegs spark against stone and could have blown them all to hell and gone if there'd been any methane.)

Those tin miners had a cold wet wet horrid life. More dangerous than coaling I think? Shall have to google now to find out where we get tin from these days!