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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