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Levant Zawn The freestanding rock column is fairly recent after appearing overnight having probably detatching itself from the main cliff face. This picture appears in the following picture tours: Camera Make: FUJIFILM Model: FinePix S5800 S800 |
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It be bathtime I do reckon Believe it or not but this is what was known as the miners dry (a building where a number of hot pipes made a very hot and dry atmosphere where miners could change and leave sodden clothes to dry out). In each corner of the building there was a bath cut into the floor where the miner could wash away the sweat and grime of the day. This picture appears in the following picture tours: Camera Make: FUJIFILM Model: FinePix S5800 S800 |
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Engine House view Most Cornish Engine Houses in their day had Geraniums on the windowsills This picture appears in the following picture tours: Camera Make: FUJIFILM Model: FinePix S5800 S800 |
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Skip shaft The roofed building houses the restored and working beam engine (the oldest working beam engine still working in it's original site). The engine is a whim engine, that was used to raise and lower items up and down in this case the "Skip shaft". The engine has a 24" cylinder, quite small by Cornish beam engine standards. Some of the pumping engines were 90 or 100" cylinders.The engine was saved from the scrapman in 1935 by the Cornish Engines Preservation Society and then restored by volunteers of The Trevithick Society who became known as "The Greasy Gang". The National Trust now own the site. This picture appears in the following picture tours: Camera Make: FUJIFILM Model: FinePix S5800 S800 |
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Tis a long way down View down one of the shafts at Levant mine. This picture appears in the following picture tours: Camera Make: FUJIFILM Model: FinePix S5800 S800 |
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It be time for some hard rock mining me 'ansome The tunnel from the miner's dry to the man engine shaft at Levant.The man engine (a lift arrangement powered by a beam engine) here collapsed one October day in 1919 leaving 31 dead and more injured.This was Cornwall's 2nd worst mining disaster. The worst was at East Wheal Rose further up country where 38 or 39 were killed in July 1846 where a cloudburst caused major flooding from above. The mine at Levant had workings stretching a long way under the sea, miners working the upper levels could hear during rough weather, boulders being swept backwards and forwards across the sea bed above their heads. This picture appears in the following picture tours: Camera Make: FUJIFILM Model: FinePix S5800 S800 |
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