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In the village of Carnkie just south of Carn Brea hill.
©Sheila Russell
This tunnel was opened in 1908 and took a tramway underneath the road between Four Lanes and Camborne. The tramway was built to take ore from South Wheal Francis to the processing works at Basset Stamps and was worked by steam engine. The tunnel was rebuilt in 1997 to allow it to be used as part of the bridleway which runs along the old track bed and forms part of the Great Flat Lode trail.
©Tony Atkin
Dist:0.1km<br/>The fox standing on the bridleway is eyeing the photographer just emerging from a tunnel.
©Tony Atkin
Dist:0.4km<br/>Ore bin base in the foreground.
©Chris Allen
Dist:0.4km<br/>Looking down onto the western edge of the village of Carnkie from the old Basset Tramway at Higher Carnkie. On the horizon the De Dunstanville memorial is prominent on top of Carn Brea hill.
©Tony Atkin
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©Rod Allday
Dist:0.4km<br/>This view is taken from the back of the remains of the boiler house. When it was working this view would have been blocked by the six Lancashire boilers which supplied steam for the huge pumping engine and all other needs of the site.
©Tony Atkin
Dist:0.4km<br/>This building housed the engine which raised ore from the mine and moved men up and down the mine in the cage. This, in the first decade of the 20th century, was very different to the early 19th century operations when ore was often raised by a horse powered winder or "whim" and men climbed in and out of the mine by ladder.
©Tony Atkin
Dist:0.4km<br/>This is the building where the miners would have changed before and after shifts.
©Rod Allday
Dist:0.4km<br/>The mining buildings left standing here are huge compared to the remains normally seen in Cornwall. Most of these very impressive ruins were built in the later stages of mining in the area at the end of the 19th century and start of the 20th when South Wheal Francis had amalgamated with Basset Mines and this site became the focus of ore lifting and sorting operations. The ore was then taken east by railway to be processed at Basset stamps.
©Tony Atkin
Dist:0.4km<br/>Carnkie is a small village with a varied history, starting out as a small group of houses inhabited by workers at local quarries. The village grew rapidly in the 19th century as it found itself at the centre of intense mining activity. In the late 20th century some older houses have been renovated and others replaced by modern bungalows.
©Tony Atkin
Dist:0.4km<br/>The panels on the front of this building detail the history of the village and the surrounding mines. There is a lot of reading here! Below the panels are name plaques very much in the style of 19th century Methodist churches.
©Tony Atkin
Dist:0.4km<br/>This building housed the engine used to pump water out of the mine in the final phase of working this mine between 1895 and 1918. It is a very different construction to the older Cornish engine houses and contained a compound pumping engine with both 40 inch and 80 inch cylinders. The grating in front of the building covers Marriott's shaft, which has an enormous 16 feet diameter. When the mine was in operation this view would have been obscured by the mine headgear over the shaft, a huge metal A frame construction half as high again as this building. An elevated railway at about the same height as this building took ore raised from the mine away to the left to be tipped in the ore bin.
©Tony Atkin
Dist:0.4km<br/>The remains of the building where the miners would have changed before and after shifts. In the distance can be seen the Carn Brea TV mast.
©Rod Allday
Dist:0.5km<br/>Some of the 21 engine house chimneys that could be seen smoking around Carn Brea in a campaign to raise awareness of the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site
©Fred James

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