A Complete Guide to the Engine Houses of East Cornwall and Devon
A Complete Guide to the Engine Houses of East Cornwall and Devon
Damian Nance, Kenneth Brown and Tony Clarke
152 pages. 210x210mm. Printed in full colour throughout on gloss art paper, perfect bound with laminated card covers.
ISBN13 : 9781915069269
£22.50
Damian Nance, Kenneth Brown and Tony Clarke
152 pages. 210x210mm. Printed in full colour throughout on gloss art paper, perfect bound with laminated card covers.
ISBN13 : 9781915069269
£22.50
NOWHERE in the world has metal mining been of greater importance than it has in Cornwall and Devon, and it is in recognition of this extraordinary heritage and the global influence of the pioneering technology developed here that the mining landscape of the two counties was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2006 on a par with the Pyramids of Giza and the Great Wall of China. Duringthe 19th century, Cornwall and neighbouring Devon produced most of the world’s copper and tin, as well as significant amounts of lead.
A Complete Guide to the Engine Houses of East Cornwall and Devon - Sample Images
Brunton calciners (right and below), flue labyrinth (left) and arsenic stack (rear) at the Devon Great Consols (Wheal Anna Maria) arsenic works, about 2km WNW of Gulworthy. The complex was erected on the site of an earlier arsenic works in 1922 during the mine’s final (1914-30) period of reworking. The works closed in 1925
A view (from the SW) of the picturesque, 50-inch pumping engine house on Job’s shaft at Wheal Betsy (2012).