The Standardized China Clay Company
The ruins of the plant-room of the Belowda Beacon china clay mine, near Roche, Cornwall.
What was once a large 'L'-shaped room, built pre-WWI in 1908 or 1912 - some uncertainty of the date, but of more modern styling than contemporaneous architecture.
Contained within were oil-engines driving d.c. generators to power the skips, pumps, processing and haulage equipment. A gas-plant was behind, in the lower part of the building.
An experimental plant, evidently, with not much china clay produced, it having a high mica content.
Information courtesy of a paper by John Tonkin: 'The Belowda Beacon Clayworkings - Two Forgotten Pits'.
The Standardized China Clay Company
The ruins of the plant-room of the Belowda Beacon china clay mine, near Roche, Cornwall.
What was once a large 'L'-shaped room, built pre-WWI in 1908 or 1912 - some uncertainty of the date, but of more modern styling than contemporaneous architecture.
Contained within were oil-engines driving d.c. generators to power the skips, pumps, processing and haulage equipment. A gas-plant was behind, in the lower part of the building.
An experimental plant, evidently, with not much china clay produced, it having a high mica content.
Information courtesy of a paper by John Tonkin: 'The Belowda Beacon Clayworkings - Two Forgotten Pits'.