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Dist:0.1km<br/>There are two engine houses that served Chappel's Shaft. The visible one is the pumping engine house with a detached stack that has lost its brick upper section. This housed a 50 inch engine in 1838 that was recylinderd to 55 inch in 1872. Behind this is the house for the 26 inch whim dating from about 1860 and this retains a chimney with a brick section. The mine was named after a miner (Cook) who discovered a copper lode as wide as his kitchen. The mine initially mined copper and later tin.
©Chris Allen
Dist:0.1km<br/>The derelict engine house in the foreground is part of the old Cook's Kitchen Mine while the modern winding gear in the background is the headframe over the New Cook's Kitchen Shaft which was sunk in 1907. This was the main shaft for South Crofty Mine until it closed in 1998.
©Tony Atkin
Dist:0.1km<br/>This is all that remains of the Cook's Kitchen mine which by legend was first opened by a man called Cook who used to boast that the mineral lode was 'as wide as my kitchen'. Nobody actually knows when mining started here but it may have been as long ago as the 1690's. This photograph was taken from the other side of the railway line which runs in a cutting behind the fence.
©Tony Atkin
Dist:0.2km<br/>just near the railway this is a typical Cornish Engine house. There are a number of mine workings including shafts in this area.
©roger geach
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©Rod Allday
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©Tony Atkin
Dist:0.2km<br/>Brea is a mining village in the Red River Valley which is separated from the nearby conurbation by a railway embankment over the valley through which there is only a narrow single track road tunnel.
©Tony Atkin
Dist:0.2km<br/>South Crofty Tin Mine, the last tin mine in Cornwall (in Europe for that matter!)
©Ron Strutt
Dist:0.2km<br/>Looking across the Red River to the entrance to the Tuckingmill Decline.
©Helen Wilkinson
Dist:0.2km<br/>A narrow single-track road tunnel goes through the railway embankment over the Red River valley.
©Tony Atkin
Dist:0.3km<br/>Actually this line from Truro to Penzance started life as the West Cornwall Branch Line, the mainline went to Falmouth. Here, between Camborne and Redruth it runs in a cutting through old mining land. Modern commercial 'sheds' have sprung up alongside the railway.
©Tony Atkin
Dist:0.3km<br/>This area between Camborne and Redruth contains much evidence of the former tin and copper mining industries. Even the name of the river in this shallow valley, Red River, reminds us of the colour of the soil from the copper. The valley is greener now, as nature returns. The railway crosses on a shallow viaduct here and this photo was taken from the 1158 Penzance to London Paddington train, having left Camborne at 1224.
©Graham Horn
Dist:0.3km<br/>Looking over the upper part of Brea village from the Great Flat Lode Trail.
©Tony Atkin
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©Tony Atkin
Dist:0.3km<br/>Built in 1860 this held a 26 inch beam engine driving wheels which powered machinery to hoist men and ore up and down Dunkin's Shaft.
©Tony Atkin

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