237/365 Pumping Engine at Robinson's Shaft
The pumping engine at Robinson’s Shaft is a gloriously well-preserved example of a Cornish engine. It worked at this site between 1903 and 1955.
The engine was designed by Captain Samuel Grose, a pupil of Richard Trevithick, and was built by Sandys Vivian and Co. at the Copperhouse Foundry, one of the two major engineering works at Hayle. Apart from its state of preservation, and the fact that it continued to work until the 1950s.
Heartlands is a redeveloped 19 acre site of one of Cornwall's most active and long running mines. Heartlands both celebrates the areas mining heritage with in situ exhibits and moves on, with landscaped gardens and an excellent adventure playground for children.
Set in nineteen acres of industrial wasteland belonging to the former South Crofty mine. South Crofty mine finally closed in the mid 1990s, after four hundred years of mining activity. The abandoned site lay derelict for more than a decade. Members of the local community worked hard to secure the thirty five million pounds of funding needed to re-develop it. Most of this money finally came from the Big Lottery Fund, in the form of the biggest grant ever awarded to a single project.
237/365 Pumping Engine at Robinson's Shaft
The pumping engine at Robinson’s Shaft is a gloriously well-preserved example of a Cornish engine. It worked at this site between 1903 and 1955.
The engine was designed by Captain Samuel Grose, a pupil of Richard Trevithick, and was built by Sandys Vivian and Co. at the Copperhouse Foundry, one of the two major engineering works at Hayle. Apart from its state of preservation, and the fact that it continued to work until the 1950s.
Heartlands is a redeveloped 19 acre site of one of Cornwall's most active and long running mines. Heartlands both celebrates the areas mining heritage with in situ exhibits and moves on, with landscaped gardens and an excellent adventure playground for children.
Set in nineteen acres of industrial wasteland belonging to the former South Crofty mine. South Crofty mine finally closed in the mid 1990s, after four hundred years of mining activity. The abandoned site lay derelict for more than a decade. Members of the local community worked hard to secure the thirty five million pounds of funding needed to re-develop it. Most of this money finally came from the Big Lottery Fund, in the form of the biggest grant ever awarded to a single project.