Bernard,
Thanks for your comments. Here are a couple of corrigenda to the captions in the H.G. Ordish book (sorry I can't quote page numbers at the moment).
I should have realised before that it was faintly ludicrous to say that the Levant pumping engine returned water for dressing, its too far way from the floors. Pointed out by Paul Richards - the Levant stamps engine drive to the stamps axles was on a ratchet system, such that by running the engine backwards, it could pump recovered water back up from the bottom of the dressing floors to the main stamps pool without running the stamps.Again thanks to Paul Richards for his local knowledge. The picture of the round frame, and other ancillary dressing equipment thought by me to be somewhere at the head of the Red River (in the vicinity of Wheral Grenville), is several hundred yards northeast of there, adjacent of the small road that leads west out of the village of Treskillard, where there was a small tin recovery plant operating round about the time.
Regards,
Tony Clarke
> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 11:42:50 -0400
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> Subject: Re: Ordish book
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> Dear Tony,
>
> Thankyou for your thorough reply. Clearly you know your engine houses, so
> we all know where to got to from now on! Back to the ill. in the vol.: I
> thought it was somewhat impossible that such a remnant could survive for too
> long... amazing it was standing at the time really. V.good vol., and very
> informative by the way - I have a horrible habit of speed reading - but this
> vol. refuses such a poor habit!!!
>
> I am sorry to raise this (doesn't apply re above), and my pet hate is
> quite well known. To all budding Authors, may I respectfully request that you
> do not equate £-s-d to decimal... it just 'don't work out', and will leave
> those unaccustomed and without any knowledge of £-s-d up the creek without a
> paddle, and leave your work inaccurate to all sorts of wrong
> interpretation by future generations long after we are gone. The Bank of England will
> always supply a table to work out real time value on request, and it only
> needs a page of your book to make it very accurate. So, please, always quote
> £-s-d when your research shows it, never, please equate it to decimal, and,
> even if you won't bother with the table, please leave it as £-s-d so future
> generations can wok it out for themselves and won't make a hash in.of the
> accuracy of monetary value! Thankyou.
>
> Regards, Bernard
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