Some references in Mining Magazine to Cornish pumps outside Cornwall and
Devon are:
August 1997 page 98: In an article on the modern Cadia mine Project, New
South Wales, Australia, there is mention of a Cornish pump house installed
there by a Captain Josiah Holman in 1860.
August 1993 page 63: the Magpie Mine, Derbyshire
March 1989 page 167: A Cornish pump made at Perrans Foundry was installed
by John Taylor and Sons at Copper Mine Point, Virgin Gorda island in the
West Indies in about 1860.
Alen McFadzean in his book "The Iron Moor" (Red Earth Publications 1989)
mentions (p68) that "Cornish beam engines.were used extensively and
successfully throughout the Furness peninsula".
For what it is worth, one might add that Cornish pasties are still served at
Pachuca, Mexico (where many Cornishmen are buried in the graveyard) and
another place I have enjoyed a Cornish pasty was in the canteen at the
Andina copper mine, in the Chilean Andes. No doubt Cornish technology also
went where the pasties went.
Tony Brewis
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