Cornish Mining WHS - Port of Hayle
Cornish Mining World Heritage Site
Geevor & Lelant Mines Under The Atlantic
Geevor Tin Mine is a tin mine in the far west of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, between the villages of Pendeen and Trewellard. It was operational between 1911 and 1990 during which time it produced about 50,000 tons of black tin. It is now a museum and heritage centre left as a living history of a working tin mine.
Levant Mine and Beam Engine is a National Trust property at Trewellard, Pendeen, near St Just, Cornwall, England, UK. Its main attraction is that it has the world's only Cornish beam engine still operated by steam on its original site. There is also a visitor centre, a short underground tour, and a cliff-top footpath that leads to Botallack Mine.
The property is on the site of the former Levant Mine, established in 1820 and closed in 1930, where tin and copper ores were raised. The mine reached a depth of about 600 metres. It got the nickname mine under the sea, because tunnels were driven up to 2.5 km from the cliffs under the sea.
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Disused mining sites in Britain gain world heritage status
Pendeen, Cornwall - recent
1. Various, disused mines and mining-related structures at Geevor mine
Truro, Cornwall - recent
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Deborah Boden, Coordinator for Cornish Mining World Heritage Site
Well World Heritage Status is awarded by the United Nations Education Scientific and Cultural Organisation, and basically it's for those places around the globe that for either their natural or their cultural significance are of more importance than purely locally. What we're talking about here are places that have in some way contributed to or changed the way we live as a human society. And that's why Cornwall's mining industry was awarded that status.
Camborne, Cornwall - recent
3. Tilt up engine building
4. Wide shot, mine building with rusty wheel in foreground
London - 2 November 2006
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Franseco Bandarin, director of World Heritage at UNESCO:
You see industrial archaeology is becoming a very important domain of conservation. We have many archaeological sites, mainly in this country, because it was the first country for the industrial revolution that signify the advancement of humanity. So this site is probably one of the most important in the world for the mining and production of copper and tin. So in a way it represents an extraordinary example of that sector in the industrial revolution.
Camborne, Cornwall - recent
6. Entrance to King Edward Mine museum
7. Pan across museum display piece
8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Tony Brooks, Mining Engineer/Director, King Edward Mine Museum
Cornwall led the world in mining, led it technologically, producing probably in excess of half the world's copper - remember, the world was a different place of course in 1850 - a major producer of copper, and then later tin which had been produced in smallish amounts for a long period. And then by 1870 we were probably producing something like half the world's tin.
9. Tony Brooks starting machinery in mine building
10. Drive wheel turning
11. Pull out from main water wheel
12. Worker brushing off 'shaking table'
13. Close shot 'shaking table'
14. Close shot, water dripping
15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Tony Brooks, Mining Engineer/Director, King Edward Mine Museum
It was the development of high-pressure steam by people like Trevithick and other engineers who took the basic beam engine, which was a very simple piece of kit, and turned it into what was known as the Cornish Engine which pumped all the mines here well into the twentieth century and was exported around the world. You can go to South Australia and you will see the iconic engine houses you see here. You can go to Mexico, you can go to the far west of Ireland and it looks like little Cornwall. The technology was driven by the minerals below our feet.
16. Worker demonstrating technology to visitor
17. Various of machinery used for extracting minerals from ore
18. SOUNDBITE: (English) Deborah Boden, Coordinator for Cornish Mining World Heritage Site
Cornwall and West Devon were an incubator for the industrial revolution. Without the minerals, without the expertise and the population that was here, many of the things that we now take for granted would not have been able to be developed or developed so quickly. And from here thousands literally hundreds of thousands of people migrated around the globe. They took their skills, the took their culture with them and a result you have Cornish mining landscapes and the residual communities, if you like, all around the globe. That's definitely worth recognising and celebrating.
Pendeen, Cornwall - recent
19. Entrance to Geevor Tin Mine
20. Geevor sign
21. Tilt up shaft 'headgear'
22. Winching mechanism
23. Wide shot of mine shafts from top of headgear
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WE Great Place present MAN ENGINE at Wentworth Woodhouse and Elsecar Heritage Centre.
The largest mechanical puppet ever constructed in Britain is coming to Yorkshire this month.
Man Engine, a 36ft (11m) tall miner powered by Volvo, will visit Barnsley and Rotherham as part of its 2018 Resurrection Tour.
The giant mechanical miner will visit Elsecar Heritage Centre in Barnsley and Wentworth Woodhouse near Rotherham from 23 to 24 June. The events will include theatrical shows, live music, fireworks and storytelling to celebrate the area’s iron and coal industrial heritage.
In 2017 Man Engine won ‘best arts project’ in the National Lottery Awards. The invention was made to mark the tenth anniversary of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape being added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites.
Yorkshire’s Man Engine festivities will begin at Elsecar Heritage Centre from 7pm on Saturday 23 June for the ‘after darker’ where pyrotechnics will light up the night sky. The celebrations will continue at Wentworth Woodhouse near Rotherham on Sunday 24 June from 12 noon with a 1940s vintage-themed picnic. Entertainment will include live music, street performers, craft activities and food and drink stalls.
The events have been funded by Great Place Wentworth and Elsecar - a three-year partnership between Barnsley Council, Rotherham Council and the Wentworth Woodhouse Preservation Trust, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Arts Council England.
Cllr Roy Miller, Barnsley Council’s Cabinet Spokesperson for Place, said: “The arrival of Man Engine celebrates the iron and coal industrial heritage of both Elsecar and Wentworth in a big coming-together event.
“Mining was the backbone of Elsecar and Wentworth and an intrinsic part of their histories. So, it’s fitting that Man Engine should visit both of these great places in what will be a truly unmissable weekend.
“We can’t wait for people from across Yorkshire to see the star of our show and experience some spectacular white-hot pyrotechnics.”
Cllr Sarah Allen, Rotherham Council’s Cabinet Member for Cleaner, Greener Communities, said: “It’s a really exciting summer of events in Wentworth, with the Tour de Yorkshire, the Wentworth Music Festival and now the Man Engine!
“With Rotherham’s proud mining history, I hope that many people from across the borough will take this opportunity to come along and enjoy what promises to be an amazing spectacle.”
Penzance, St Just,Hayle,Camborne Back In Time 1991
This video i took in 1991 in Penzance and St Just had a look around the then
abandoned Geevor tin mine in Pendeen, the trip in my 1979 Ford Granada 2.3v6
took me along the coast road through St Ives and ended in Hayle..
The video was shot on my then new Sharp C670 camcorder which i still have
in good working order on VHS .C format...
Hayle Model Railway Club and Duchy Railroaders Hayle Day Care Centre Part 9.wmv
27th May 2012 The Hayle Model Railway Club and Duchy Railroaders at Hayle Day Care Centre.
Underground at Geevor Tin Mine
I got to go underground at Geevor Tin Mine in Cornwall, it was very scary.
Saltash Museum Remembers WWI
Filmed at Saltash Heritage Museum in Lower Fore Street, Saltash, Cornwall. The It Will Be Over By Christmas - Saltash Goes To War exhibition, where they have re-created a WWI Trench!
Magnificent Man Engine Event At Elsecar Heritage Centre
The Man Engine, The largest mechanical puppet in action and a short tribute to the local coal miners with wild firework Display at the Elsecar Heritage Centre in the railway iron works yard in South Yorkshire, England, With magnificent performance of this massive 11 metre high metal constructed puppet set in this original historic mining village.
View (North) from Tintagel Castle Cornwall England English Heritage
May 2015
New visitor centre under construction.
The Man Engine
The Man Engine - the biggest mechanical puppet ever constructed in Britain. Commemorating 10th anniversary of the Cornish mining landscape becoming a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
SHIPWRECK
The Cornish coast, near Land's End, was the scene of the wreckage of the French trawler Vert Prairial, with the tragic loss of all hands.
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Hand paper sheet making machine, 12x12, Noble & Wood
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1998 Jayco Eagle 12UDST – Stock #17350
1998 Jayco Eagle 12UDST — Pre-Owned Fold Down
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Places to see in ( Hailsham - UK )
Places to see in ( Hailsham - UK )
Hailsham is a civil parish and the largest of the five towns in the Wealden district of East Sussex, England. It is mentioned in the Domesday Book, where it is called Hamelesham. The town of Hailsham has a history of industry and agriculture. The name ‘Hailsham’ is thought to come from the Saxon ‘Haegels Ham’, meaning the clearing or settlement of Haegel, Hella or a similar name, possibly even 'Aella’s Ham’, the clearing of Aella the Saxon. The name of the town has been spelt in various ways through the ages from ‘Hamelsham’ (as it was referred to in the Domesday Book), ‘Aylesham’ in the 13th century, and later Haylesham, to its present spelling.
The site of Hailsham has been inhabited since at least the Neolithic age. It was an Ancient British settlement that existed before the Romans invaded Kent and Sussex in 43 AD. The Anglo Saxons invaded Sussex in the year 477 AD. The Saxons are thought to have invaded at an original landing place at Selsey. According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, in 491 AD they attacked and took the British stronghold of Anderida which was the fort that is believed to have been built by the Ancient British and the Romans at what is now Pevensey, just a few miles from Hailsham, thereby consolidating their conquest and forming the small kingdom of the South Saxons, or Sussex.
The manor of Hailsham is recorded in the Domesday Survey completed by the Normans in 1086, 20 years after the conquest. During the seventeenth-century civil war between Charles I and Parliament, Hailsham and this part of Sussex declared against the royalist cause. Originally, the market was held in the High Street and in Market Square, only moving to its present location in 1868. Sheep and cattle were driven from miles around along the various ancient droves until the arrival of the railway station and motor lorries. Today, the weekly livestock markets, together with the monthly farmers’ market continue whilst stall markets are held weekly in the town centre on Saturdays or Thursdays.
Glimpses of the town's past are to be found in photographs and artefacts available for viewing at the Heritage Centre in Blackman’s Yard, Market Street, which is run by members of the Hailsham Historical and Natural History Society. A small display is available to members of the public including period kitchen, farming and agriculture, local industry and wartime memorabilia.
The civic parish of Hailsham is approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) in breadth and 4 miles (6.4 km) from north to south between its extreme points. Its boundary (going in a clockwise direction) runs from its most northerly limit, near Carter`s Corner Place, in a southerly direction around Magham Down, over the Herstmonceux road and crosses the low-lying farmlands, passing close to New Bridge and on across Horse Eye Level to Rickney.
In the county of East Sussex, about 6 miles (10 km) from the coast, and between the well-wooded hills of the southern Forest Ridge and the undulating chalk countryside of the South Downs, Hailsham is surrounded by much attractive and unspoilt scenery. Hailsham is the largest settlement in the southern half of the Wealden district, and the largest inland town in East Sussex with around 8,500 homes and a population of just over 20,000.
Hailsham was granted a charter to hold a market in 1252 by King Henry III. From 1997 to 2012, there was much controversy over the sale of Hailsham Cattle Market and its redevelopment into a supermarket. The land freehold was, until being sold to market operator South East Marts in January 2012. Hailsham has a variety of local and national shops, restaurants and several supermarkets. The main shopping area has developed along the High Street and George Street. A parade of units at St Mary's Walk made a contribution to retail facilities in Hailsham.
One of the Hailsham Town Team's main initiatives since it was established in 2013 was the establishment of a regular town centre market. The market, which is based in Vicarage Field, is open between 8.30am and 3pm every Saturday. Hailsham is near the junction of two major roads, the A22 road to Eastbourne and the A27 South Coast Trunk Road. Hailsham is served by Stagecoach Buses on routes that serve the town, extending to Eastbourne, Bexhill and Uckfield). Hailsham used to have a railway station on the Cuckoo Line, running from Polegate to Tunbridge Wells.
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National Maritime Museum Cornwall, Falmouth Cornwall
A short video guide to the fantastic National Maritime Museum Cornwall. Dipping its toe in Falmouth's harbour, the multi-award winning museum celebrates Cornwall's maritime history and heritage.
Published by: National Maritime Museum Cornwall and Visit Cornwall
Producer: soundviewmedia.co.uk
Class 390054 Departs Crewe
390054 Depart crewe on Euston To Edinburgh service
Filmed At the Crewe Heritage Centre
Copy of new wreck
Diving a new wreck to us from Hayle on Cornish Diver
The mini cornwall film
Enjoy a brief tour of the scenic west and the life that goes on around it, and glimpse the past in it's ancient landscape.
Come on board.