The Transport and Industries of South-Western England
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Padstow, Bodmin and Newquay
Beacon Hill Mine - SW 9691 6215
Variously known as Beacon Hill Mine, Belovely or Belowda Beacon was chiefly a tin mine working Wheal Dora Lode and Webb's Lode. The enterprise was quite short-lived and was only in operation for 30 years - 1872 to 1902, during this time it produced 49 tons of tin. There were attempts at reopening the mine in 1909, 1921 and 1935 but these came to nothing.

Beacon Hill Mine, Belowda
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Beacon Hill Mine, Belowda
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Beacon Hill Mine, Belowda
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Beacon Hill Mine, Belowda
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The Bodmin and Wenford Railway and Wenfordbridge branch - SX 0415 6740
Well, the day started quite pleasantly while I watched 4612 arrive, run round it's train and head off again at Boscarne Junction, ahhh, memories. So then I set off up the Wenfordbridge branch and then it started to pour down with rain. But I did get to Wenfordbridge and back again.

Boscarne Junction and 4612
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Boscarne Junction and 4612
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Boscarne Junction and 4612
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Boscarne Junction and 4612
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Boscarne Junction and 4612
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Dunmere Station
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Dunmere level crossing
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Dunmere level crossing
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Hellandbridge level crossing
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Quarry in Shell Woods
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Wenfordbridge branch trackbed
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Delabole Quarry - SX 0755 8420
The biggest hole in the world (at one time!)

Delabole Quarry
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Delabole Quarry, 1986
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Delabole Quarry, 1986
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Padstow
The cast iron water tank at Padstow gun battery is embossed with "Douglass Bros Ld, Blaydon-on-Tyne, C & M 1888". The Stepper Point Quarry had a tramway running from the quarry to the building in the photo, a crusher or transfer point.

Pinkson Creek bridge, Padstow
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'Sand Snipe' at Padstow
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Padstow, 259 Miles from Waterloo?
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Padstow old lifeboat station
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Padstow gun battery
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Padstow gun battery water tank
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Padstow gun battery water tank
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Padstow searchlight battery
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Padstow generator house
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Padstow generator house
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Padstow generator house
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Padstow generator house
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Stepper Point Quarry building
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Wadebridge Station and 31856
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Trevose Head - SW 8505 7630
Trebetherick Point - SW 9250 7795
with quarries and shipwrecks

Trevose Head quarry loading dock
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Trevose Head quarry
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Trebetherick quarry
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Shipwreck on Trebetherick Point
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Shipwreck on Trebetherick Point
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Shipwreck on Trebetherick Point
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Newquay Canal - SW 8393 6273
Newquay town - SW 8115 6190
The Newquay end of the St Colomb Canal started at the top of Lusty Glaze incline, SW 8242 6255, and reached St Colomb Minor where the course can be traced along the hillside.
Newquay Harbour railway is now a footpath and the caves below have doors leading up to the hotels above.

Newquay canal, St Columb Minor
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Newquay canal, St Columb Minor
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Newquay canal incline, Lusty Glaze
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Newquay canal incline, Lusty Glaze
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Newquay harbour tunnel
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Newquay caves
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Newquay caves
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Newquay caves
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Par, St Austell and Fowey
The Luxulyan Valley and Treffrys Tramway
Joseph Treffry (1782 - 1850) was an industrialist with many interests in Mining, quarrying and china clay. He built the leat and tramway down the valley to the Fowey Consols Mine and the port of Par. Both the tramway and leat crossed the Par river valley on a unique 10-arched stone viaduct, the leat running beneath the tramway.
North of Treffry's Viaduct - SX 0540 5740
From Treffry's Viaduct the leat and tramway ran Northwards towards Luxulyan where the tramway was superseded by the Newquay railway. The original tramway ended at Molinnis.

Carmears tramway north of the viaduct
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Carmears tramway north of the viaduct
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Luxulyan village, Newquay branch
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Leat North of Treffrys Viaduct
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Tramway North of Treffrys Viaduct
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Tramway North of Treffrys Viaduct
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Colcerrow Quarry - SX 0645 5780
Colcerrow Quarry and Carbeans Quarry were at the end of a tramway branch from the South of Treffrys Viaduct. The Colcerrow line was the last part of the tramway to be used, traffic was worked from the quarry to Luxulyan, reversing at the viaduct, at least until the 1930s with a short stub in use until 1959.

Colcerrow Quarry tramway
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Colcerrow quarry tramway
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Colcerrow quarry tramway
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Colcerrow quarry tramway
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Colcerrow quarry tramway
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Remains of crane, Colcerrow Quarry
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Treffry's Viaduct - SX 0561 5721
Treffry's Viaduct carried the leat and tramway over the Par valley on a stone-built ten arch structure. The viaduct was probably uniqur in carrying both tramway and leat over the valley. It was built between 1839 and 1842 and designed and constructed by Treffry's steward, William Pease.

Treffry's Viaduct
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Treffry's Viaduct
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Treffry's Viaduct
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Treffry's Viaduct
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Treffry's Viaduct sluice gate
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Treffrys Viaduct in a downpour
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Treffrys Viaduct in a downpour
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Treffrys Viaduct in a downpour
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Treffry's Viaduct, Newquay branch
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Newquay branch looking North
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Newquay branch looking South
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Carmears Tramway - SX 0631 5691
From Treffries Viaduct to Ponts Mill

Carmears tramway chair
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Carmears tramway rail
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Carmears tramway rail
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'K', the Kendall boundary stone
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'T', the Treffrey boundary stone
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Carmears leat beside tramway
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Carmears leat beside tramway
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Carmears leat beside tramway
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Tramway South of Treffrys Viaduct
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Tramway South of Treffrys Viaduct
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Carmears incline smithy
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Carmears incline cable
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Carmears incline checkers hut
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Carmears incline
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Carmears incline
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Carmears incline
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Carmears incline
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Carmears incline bridge, Luxulyan
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Carmears incline
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Carmears Waterwheel - SX 0656 5667
The Carmears Waterwheel was buit in 1841and used firstly for incline haulage and later to power a clay crushing mill. Originally an 34ft wheel, a 40ft wheel was installed in the 1890s when it powered china stone grinding pans. The mill closed in 1908 and the wheel was broken up in 1940

Carmears Waterwheel
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Carmears Waterwheel
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Carmears Waterwheel
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Carmears Waterwheel
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Carmears Waterwheel
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Carmears Waterwheel
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Carmears Waterwheel
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Carmears Waterwheel leat
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Carmears incline waterwheel
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The Lower Tramway and Trevanney Dry - SX 0660 5625
The lower tramway, built in 1868, served the Dry and then the Rock Mill Quarry and Orchard Quarry of the 'South Cornwall Granite Co'. Traffic to the Dry finished in 1960 and the quarries closed in 1928.
Trevanney Dry was built in 1920 by the Central Cornwall China Clay Co. It was taken over by ECLP Ltd in 1935 and connected to their pipeline network and closed in 1965.

Ponts Mill Junction
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Ponts Mill Junction
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Ponts Mill branch at clay works
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The lower tramway at Ponts Mill
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The lower tramway at Ponts Mill
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Rock Mill Viaduct, Trevanney
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Rock Mill Viaduct, Trevanney
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Trevanney Dry
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Trevanney Dry
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Trevanney Dry
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Trevanney Dry
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Trevanney Dry
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Trevanney Dry
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Trevanney Dry
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Trevanney Dry
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Trevanney Dry
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Unknown ironmongery at Trevanny
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The lower tramway
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The lower tramway
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Fowey and Polruan SX126513

Fowey boatyard
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Carne Point building, Fowey
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'Lady Ami' at Carne Point, Fowey
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'Lady Ami' at Carne Point, Fowey
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'Lady Ami' at Carne Point, Fowey
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'Guardian' at Polruan shipyard
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'Lantic Bay' at Polruan shipyard
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'Kantoeng' tin dredger
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Pont Quay - SX 1433 5185
Pont Quay (or Pont Pill) at the end of Pont Creek has two well-preserved limekilns, recorded here in 1814, the limestone coming from Plymouth. The tariff board is dated 1894 and there are two warehouses to hold the 'imports and exports' that crossed the River Fowey, roadstone, bricks, coal, manure and flour going in and grain and logs going out. There is also a corn mill, sawmill, a beer house and blacksmith shop around the quay. Pont Creek is believed to have inspired 'Wind in the Willows' by Kenneth Graham.

Pont Quay in 1893
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Pont Quay Southern limekiln
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Pont Quay Southern limekiln
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Pont Quay Southern limekiln
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Pont Quay Southern limekiln draw-hole
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Pont Quay Tariff Board, 1894
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Pont Quay Northern limekiln
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Pont Quay Northern limekiln
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Pont Quay warehouses
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Pont Quay warehouses
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Caerhays, Gorran - SW 9724 4130
Below Caerhays Castle, on the seawall of Porthluney Bay, is this pillbox. Another one is hidden in the undergrowth near the castle.

Caerhays Castle pillbox
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Caerhays Castle pillbox
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Redruth and Perranporth
Moseley Heritage Museum, Redruth - SW 6853 4283
Moseley Heritage Museum, West Tolgus, Redruth, has an amazing collection of old model railways, Meccano sets and Cornish mining locomotives. If you ask nicely, they may let you drive one.

Moseley Museum '1 Macca'
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Moseley Museum '1 Macca'
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Moseley Museum '2 Smelter'
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Moseley Museum '3'
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Moseley Museum '3'
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Moseley Museum '3'
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Moseley Museum '3 The Lady D'
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Moseley Museum '4 (Bincleaves)'
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Moseley Museum '4 (Bincleaves)'
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Moseley Museum '5 Anode'
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Moseley Museum '6 Cathode'
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Moseley Museum '8 (Little George)'
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Moseley Museum '9'
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Moseley Museum '11'
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Moseley Museum '13 Lewis'
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Moseley Museum '20 Diode'
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Moseley Museum '72' and '64'
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Moseley Museum OHE loco
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Moseley Museum 'Atlas' shovel
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Moseley Museum overhead shovel
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Moseley Museum loco battery box
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Moseley Museum wooden frame
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Moseley Museum 'mine' exhibition
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Moseley Museum tramcar trailer bodies
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Moseley Museum driver training
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Moseley Museum driver training
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Moseley Museum driver training
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Moseley Museum driver training
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Moseley Museum driver training
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Moseley Museum driver training
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Moseley Museum driver training
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Moseley Museum driver training
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South Wheal Francis, Redruth - SW 6805 3935
The large copper and tin mine of South Wheal Francis,

South Wheal Francis boiler house
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South Wheal Francis compressor house
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South Wheal Francis compressor house
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South Wheal Francis compressor house
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South Wheal Francis engine house
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South Wheal Francis engine house
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South Wheal Francis engine house
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South Wheal Francis engine house
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South Wheal Francis engine house
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South Wheal Francis engine house
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South Wheal Francis miners dries
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South Wheal Francis miners dries
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South Wheal Francis miners dries
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South Wheal Francis ore bin
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South Wheal Francis ore bin
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South Wheal Francis, Pascoes Shaft
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South Wheal Francis pumping house
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South Wheal Francis Marriotts Shaft
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South Wheal Francis Marriotts Shaft
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South Wheal Francis Marriotts Shaft
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South Wheal Francis winding house
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South Wheal Francis winding house
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Aerial view of South Wheal Francis
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South Wheal Francis c1900
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Wheal Raven, Redruth - SW 6803 4255
Wheal Raven has three chimneys, the stepped chimney served a boiler house down in the valley. The other two are arsenic calciner flues. Wheal Raven worked in the 1830s and later became part of South and West Wheal Tolgus. Wheal Tehidy worked from 1834-1842 and 1851-1861 leaving its chimney for posterity and the chimneys of Wheal Uny stand out on the skyline.

Wheal Raven, Tolgus Valley
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Wheal Raven, Tolgus Valley
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Wheal Raven, Tolgus Valley
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Wheal Raven, Tolgus Valley
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Wheal Raven, Tolgus Valley
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Wheal Raven, Tolgus Valley
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Wheal Tehidy chimney
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Wheal Uny on the skyline
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Treamble, near Perranporth - SW 7845 5610
Unusually for Cornwall, Treamble was an iron and Fullers Earth mine, with its own branchline from the Perranporth to Newquay Railway. It was mainly active between 1920 and 1940.

Treamble branchline bridge
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Treamble mine tramway bridge
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Treamble mine tramway bridge
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Treamble mine building
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Treamble mine chimney
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