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Dist:0.1km<br/>Whim engine house and winding drum. The beam engine here was the last to be constructed in Cornwall, by Holman Bros of Camborne. It was at work from 1887 to 1921. Cared for by the National Trust since 1964
©Martin Bodman
Dist:0.2km<br/>90" Cornish beam pumping engine preserved by the National Trust. It is paired with the nearby winding engine that has also been featured in this square. I think both are major features in this square and should be illustrated.
©Chris Allen
Dist:0.2km<br/>The last new engine house to be built in England.
©Gordon Spicer
Dist:0.3km<br/>The National Trust operate this museum and inside the engine house is a massive beam engine, over 100 years old, pumping up and down behind a safety cage. There is also an accompanying display of old photographs - many showing the pitifully primitive working conditions of men, deep underground with candles on their helmet brims, posing for the camera. I got out fast.
©Jeremy Bolwell
Dist:0.3km<br/>A close up of crank , drum and feed pump arrangements.
©Chris Allen
Dist:0.3km<br/>National Trust property, as is the nearby East Pool pumping engine and discovery centre
©Chris J Dixon
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©Colin Pyle
Dist:0.3km<br/>The main museum site lies behind Morrison's Car Park with another engine house nearby. http://www.theheritagetrail.co.uk/industrial/cornish_engines.htm
©John M
Dist:0.4km<br/>EPAL on the chimney stands for East Pool & Agar Ltd. This site and the nearby Mitchell's winding engine house are owned by the National Trust http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-cornishminesandengines/. Work is currently underway refurbishing the pumping engine house. The winding engine house contains a working beam engine which is operated several times each day. Useful information about the mine is here: http://www.cornwallinfocus.co.uk/history/epal.php.
©Rod Allday
Dist:0.4km<br/>The engine house contains a preserved steam engine which is now owned by the National Trust along with another on Michell's Shaft a short distance away.
©Helen Wilkinson
Dist:0.4km<br/>For more details see [[2131132]]. The metal trunking in the foreground is part of the ventilation equipment which used to draw air up Taylor's Shaft to ventilate South Crofty Mine when that was operational.
©Rod Allday
Dist:0.4km<br/>Seen across Agar Road. Composer Thomas Merritt (see [[1185643]]) was an organist in a now-demolished chapel along the road.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.4km<br/>These are the second and third Methodist chapels on this site; the first, dating from 1809, is a very modest single-storey building at the rear that is now the Sunday School. The further building dates from 1839 and is now a "meeting hall and Sunday School". See http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=66672 . The nearer building, of the early C20, has a "two-storey facade in free Gothic (or Arts and Crafts) style, in a form probably derived from that of its 1839 predecessor ..." http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=66673&mode=adv. Thomas Merritt, who composed several Christmas carols, including "Hark the Glad Sound! The Saviour Comes" and "Lo! He Comes, an Infant Stranger" was organist here from 1889 until his death in 1908. All three buildings are built of killas, or metamorphic rock.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.5km<br/>The bridge is shown in [[1185698]]. Among the contracts undertaken by Joseph Westwood & Co, of Napier Yard, London, were the building of the Lansdowne (Sukkur) and Attock bridges across the Indus in Pakistan. The view is up the line towards Redruth.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.5km<br/>The railway is the main line from Penzance to Paddington. On top of Carn Brea is [[354184]].
©Derek Harper

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