You bought a pan device :) looks ace. Great bit of history, they really built it well, the first ever industrial steam engine in the world was used to pump water from the mines less than a mile from my house, you wouldn't even know anything was there now.
Great footage, really neat! According to wikipedia "67,866 tons of copper and 9,716 tons of tin ores were extracted." Wow. Oh, to be able to explore the workings (though I guess they're all flooded)! Awesome videography of a neat place....thanks for sharing!
Thank you kindly sir, yes, the workings are all underwater, hence the massive pumps that would have once sorted this, waterlevel is about 70 - 100ft below the surface here, there might be shallow workings but no open shafts nearby :(
I am forever fascinated by these ruins of brick, block, & field-stone; iconic markers of a past generation's industriousness, they dot the coastal Cornish landscape - a minehenge, of sorts! Do many lie inland, as well?
Great! I'm certainly going to have a full calendar if I ever do make it over there, then. If not, your video explores will keep me busy, as well as up-to-date, educated, & entertained!
Thank You for the tour . Beautiful old stone ruins , wish there were more like that here in the USA , but they'd rather demolish them than to turn them into a Historic Site . - Question: Do any of the UK mines have an old ''Walking Beam Man Lift'' , even just as a Display ? I know they were exceedingly dangerous , and many miners lost their lives by falling down the Shaft if they missed a step on those up-and-down moving platforms . - Thanks , < Doc , Miner for nearly 50 years . > .
"Man engines" as they are known here, I don't think there are any with the lift in place, plenty of man engine shafts around here though! There was a model of them in one of the local mine museums, I will try and get a photo next time I am there.
OMG that was a serious shaft! thanks for sharing folk :)
You bought a pan device :) looks ace. Great bit of history, they really built it well, the first ever industrial steam engine in the world was used to pump water from the mines less than a mile from my house, you wouldn't even know anything was there now.
Incredible structures. Beautiful landscape. Many thanks for sharing sir.
Thank you, not too far from where I live, lucky to be right in the middle of all this mining history.
Great footage, really neat! According to wikipedia "67,866 tons of copper and 9,716 tons of tin ores were extracted." Wow. Oh, to be able to explore the workings (though I guess they're all flooded)! Awesome videography of a neat place....thanks for sharing!
Thank you kindly sir, yes, the workings are all underwater, hence the massive pumps that would have once sorted this, waterlevel is about 70 - 100ft below the surface here, there might be shallow workings but no open shafts nearby :(
Iove old buildings or what's left of them
I am forever fascinated by these ruins of brick, block, & field-stone; iconic markers of a past generation's industriousness, they dot the coastal Cornish landscape - a minehenge, of sorts! Do many lie inland, as well?
Yes, many are inland as well as the coast, the coast ones are more scenic of course.
Great! I'm certainly going to have a full calendar if I ever do make it over there, then. If not, your video explores will keep me busy, as well as up-to-date, educated, & entertained!
Cheers! :) Got a lot of editing to do, just seem to be behind on it all.
Thank You for the tour . Beautiful old stone ruins , wish there were more like that here in the USA , but they'd rather demolish them than to turn them into a Historic Site . - Question: Do any of the UK mines have an old ''Walking Beam Man Lift'' , even just as a Display ? I know they were exceedingly dangerous , and many miners lost their lives by falling down the Shaft if they missed a step on those up-and-down moving platforms . - Thanks , < Doc , Miner for nearly 50 years . > .
"Man engines" as they are known here, I don't think there are any with the lift in place, plenty of man engine shafts around here though! There was a model of them in one of the local mine museums, I will try and get a photo next time I am there.