Its a pity we aren't so good at preserving engine houses with engines in them. The one at Goonvean China Clay Works in Cornwall is badly corroded in places and is still under threat from clay extraction and subsidence (see January issue of Old Glory Magazine), the engine at Dorothea Quarry, North Wales is sealed off by metal doors and is corroding, with many parts missing, while the one at Glyn Pits, Pontypool is completely abandoned in a roofless ruin boxed in with steel fencing.
So what are the relevant authorities doing about these?
Robert Waterhouse
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Message Received: Jan 15 2006, 08:46 PM
From: "Adrian Pearce"
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Subject: Re: Re; Working Mines
Tony
Are there also headgears at the East Pool engine houses? Does Poldark Mine
have any, even if only re-constructed?
Adrian
> Re Mount Wellington headframe -
>
> The Carn Brea Mining Society has been pushing for all of the remaining (9)
> headframes in Cornwall to be Listed, though I think that the newly
> replaced timber headframe at Wethered, Geevor, is Scheduled. I suspect
> that the news of potential listing may have encouraged the owner of the
> headframe at Mount Wellington to demolish it over a weekend. We have lost
> 5 in the past 15 years - Treweeks at Geevor, Wheal Pendarves, 2 x Wheal
> Jane, and now Mount Wellington
>
> The 9 survivors are:
>
> Victory Shaft - Geevor
> Wethered Shaft - Geevor
> Skip Shaft - Levant
> Allen's Shaft - Botallack
> Vivian's Shaft - Great Condurrow
> Robinsons Shaft - S Crofty
> Cooks Shaft - S Crofty
> Roskear Shaft - S Crofty
> Main Shaft - Wheal Concord
>
> We seem to be very good at preserving engine houses, of which we have
> literally dozens, but somehow the funding and statuatory bodies fail to
> apply the same energy to the preservation (or protection) of 20th Century
> mine buildings (particularly those with roofs on) and associated
> structures which arguably can tell us a lot more about the mine than
> engine houses.
>
> Tony Brooks
>
>
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