The Industry That Lasted Around 4,000 Years
Indeed , the Cornish Tin & Copper Industry is believed to have been around as far back as 2,150 BC !!
Shot taken for Satuday Self Challenge 12/03/2022 - Industry .
I did start off going to an old colleague's dry cleaning shop and took some shots of the back of the dry cleaning machine which has pipes ,pumps ,filters,separators, condensers, cooling units and of course - the still . But , as good as it looks I have decided not to use it though for a number of reasons and gone back to an old favourite over the Tamar .
Obviously mining in Cornwall has changed over those many years until in the time of The Industrial Revolution and Cornwall was at that time one of the most industrialised areas in Britain ! During this time many new inventions and discoveries took place and many of those things were to become items and ideas that are fundamental to us all now . One person at the forefront of the inventions of the day was Richard Trevithick who still does not get the recognition he deserves !!
Of my images above , on the left is a copper coloured etching of the East Pool Whim Engine .
The second image is of a numbered print I have on the wall that I have edited to sepia and it is of an old scene at The Crowns Mine at Botallack and it's Diagonal Shaft before it goes underground and away under the sea of the Atlantic Ocean !
The third and last image is of Wheal Grenville at Grenville United Mines Troon and it is a cross-stitched image of a photograph I took years ago and have now photographed the the cross-stitch for the challenge .
These iconic buildings housed the engines powered by steam which would have driven the pumps , whims ( for lifting and lowering men or goods up and down the shafts ) and lastly the Stamps ( a series of vertical heavy rods in rows being lifted and allowed to drop onto the ore won from the depths of the mines to crush the ore into smaller pieces for processing ). The cylinder size of the engines could , especially for pumping , be at least 90 inch diameter with some going into three figures .
I could go on and on , but for those who want to find out more , here is a link to Wikipedia that has more info and it is not so involved as some links that I could have posted ------
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining_in_Cornwall_and_Devon
And those mines were deep
The Industry That Lasted Around 4,000 Years
Indeed , the Cornish Tin & Copper Industry is believed to have been around as far back as 2,150 BC !!
Shot taken for Satuday Self Challenge 12/03/2022 - Industry .
I did start off going to an old colleague's dry cleaning shop and took some shots of the back of the dry cleaning machine which has pipes ,pumps ,filters,separators, condensers, cooling units and of course - the still . But , as good as it looks I have decided not to use it though for a number of reasons and gone back to an old favourite over the Tamar .
Obviously mining in Cornwall has changed over those many years until in the time of The Industrial Revolution and Cornwall was at that time one of the most industrialised areas in Britain ! During this time many new inventions and discoveries took place and many of those things were to become items and ideas that are fundamental to us all now . One person at the forefront of the inventions of the day was Richard Trevithick who still does not get the recognition he deserves !!
Of my images above , on the left is a copper coloured etching of the East Pool Whim Engine .
The second image is of a numbered print I have on the wall that I have edited to sepia and it is of an old scene at The Crowns Mine at Botallack and it's Diagonal Shaft before it goes underground and away under the sea of the Atlantic Ocean !
The third and last image is of Wheal Grenville at Grenville United Mines Troon and it is a cross-stitched image of a photograph I took years ago and have now photographed the the cross-stitch for the challenge .
These iconic buildings housed the engines powered by steam which would have driven the pumps , whims ( for lifting and lowering men or goods up and down the shafts ) and lastly the Stamps ( a series of vertical heavy rods in rows being lifted and allowed to drop onto the ore won from the depths of the mines to crush the ore into smaller pieces for processing ). The cylinder size of the engines could , especially for pumping , be at least 90 inch diameter with some going into three figures .
I could go on and on , but for those who want to find out more , here is a link to Wikipedia that has more info and it is not so involved as some links that I could have posted ------
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining_in_Cornwall_and_Devon
And those mines were deep