Prince Of Wales Engine House

Moorland view looking down to the prince of wales engine house near the village of minions on bodmin moor.

Prince of wales engine house. This is the delapidated remains of the prince of wales engine pumping house on the slopes of caradon hill on bodmin moor near the tiny ancient village. The prince of wales engine house seen here was built in 1907 over the prince of wales shaft incidentally sunk to a depth of 1200 feet 200 fathoms. The engine house fell into disrepair and was restored by the local prince of wales engine house society. The prince of wales engine house was built in 1871 to transport slate and water from the quarries towards tintagel.

Engine house of the prince of wales quarry disused slate quarry near tintagel cornwall. See why it was listed view it on a map see visitor comments and photos and share your own comments and photos of this building. 4 166 engine house at princess of wales quarry formerly listed as prince of 10 12 80 wales engine house trewamett gv ii engine house. Download this stock image.

The principle speaker was mr. Prince of wales engine house at phoenix united mine is a grade ii listed building in linkinhorne cornwall england. Prince of wales engine house by moonlight 09 01 09 photograph of wheal phoenix united on the mine exploration web site www aditnow co uk. The tips below the prince of wales engine house.

Prince of wales engine house the story of the restoration there was a public meeting held at the rural district council offices at camelford on 11th december 1972 with a view to restoring the engine house in the sanding road. It housed a 80 pumping beam engine the last to be built in cornwall by the world renowned holman brothers of camborne. J p stenlehofen of the institute of cornish studies and a member of the trevithick society. It has an unusual square base to the chimney.

Completed in 1872 restored in 1976. Much of the tip area has become noticeably more grassy since i was last here 7 or 8 years ago and despite some fairly big excavations by mineral hunters the abundance of finds has definitely dropped off. Prince of wales quarry engine house cornwall located in trewarmett cornwall south west england england little is known of this site s early history but it was at work during the mid ninteenth century.