A recent camping trip saw us visiting the derelict Magpie lead Mine near Monyash in the Peak District.
The site of the local Magpie mine murders in the 19 Century, as soon as I saw the winding gear on the mound I thought of that fabulous scene in Hammer's Plague of the Zombies.
You know the scene, the zombie holds it's latest victim aloft, played by Jacqueline Pearce in front of the mine workings.
The local bobby and investigating dignitaries also explore the impressive zombie mine.
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But it's not a mine at all! Amazingly the mine setting for the film was created on the back lot of Bray studios! What a fab job those guys did! But they could have gone to Magpie Mine I reckon!
The Cornish village set was also used simultaneously for filming that other Jacqueline Pearce Hammer horror, The Reptile.
Do you like these Hammer films readers?
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