Wheal Martyn Clay Works - Celebration of Light and Clay
BRINGING CHINA CLAY TO LIGHT
China clay mining has transformed St Austell’s landscape dramatically over time. Immerse yourself in our Cornish china clay heritage and explore this transformative effect as the Wheal Martyn clay pit, woodlands and trails undergo a very special transformation of their own.
Working in partnership with Greenwave Laser, we will be holding a three day event including stunning laser show performances projected onto the clay pit, and immersive light trails, leading into a Woodland Wonderland UV experience.
Follow a beautiful light trail, exploring the changing landscape by torchlight. Encounter natural and industrial features adorned by light in fascinating ways, and look out for four iconic exhibits along the way. See how the latest LED technology, vivid colours and patterned displays create stunning effects on the iconic elements of Wheal Martyn, such as the waterwheel and flat rod tunnel.
Once you reach Pit View, get ready for an awe-inspiring laser light performance, projected onto the unique canvas of Wheal Martyn’s working clay pit.
Follow the path down to an immersive Woodland Wonderland UV experience. Draw with light on glow frames, or sit for a moment on a UV sofa, hung with lights, and consider how ‘black light’ creates the colour around you. See the ethereal glow of UV bubbles floating in the air, and gasp as colours burst and scatter in vibrant displays. Treat yourself to some festive food and drink too!
Many Thanks to:
Arts Council England
Cornwall Council
FEAST Cornwall
Produced by:
Greenwave Laser
Future Sync Media
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CPR Investigation #10 ~ Wheal Martyn Museum, Cornwall ~ Public ghost hunt
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UK Moonscape - China Clay Quarry & Mining St Austell Cornwall 2012
Here is a video I filmed in May & June 2012 during the extended bank holiday period in & around the vast China Clay workings situated in Cornwall mostly around the St Austell, St Dennis & Bugle areas.
Wheal Martyn VR experience: 6
Heritage Ability is now available in Virtual Reality! We're testing out some exciting new VR technology to help you explore England's heritage better than ever.
Travel to Wheal Martyn in Cornwall with our 360 video - best enjoyed with a VR headset, but if you're using a phone, move your phone to look around.
Please ensure your YouTube settings are set to HD (1080s or higher) for the best experience!
This video was filmed at pit view.
St Austell Bay in South Cornwall, a video guide
A short video guide to St Austell Bay, on the South Cornwall coast, a haven for watersports, family holidays, walking, history, gardens.
Featuring: St Austell Bay, Charlestown, Polkerris, Eden, Pentewan, Wheal Martyn, St Austell Brewery, Gribben Head.
Publisher: Visit Cornwall
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Wheal Martyn BSL Tour: The Crib Hut
On your visit to Wheal Martyn, you can now hire a tablet to use while you explore and discover the history of this beautiful place in British Sign Language (BSL).
This video was made by BSL users for BSL users as part of the Heritage Ability scheme. Visit heritageability.org to find out more!
Cornwall 2016 - Gopro Hero +
We´ve spent 3 days in Cornwall. It is the beautiful part of England which is worth to visit even for more days and I suggest visit it definitely in summer. :) Visited places: Eden Project, Restormel Castle, Pendennis Castle, St. Catherine´s Castle, St. Michael´s Mount, Godrevy Lighthouse, Geevor Tin Mine, Minack Theatre, Land´s End, Tintagel Castle... It is my first video by Gopro Hero +, so it is not perfect but I will keep trying...
China Clay (1964)
St Austell, Cornwall.
Various shots of man-made China clay pits, looking somewhat like a lunar landscape. A large truck travels past; a hose blasts the clay hills with a fierce jet of water, causing the clay to explode away from the rock face and cascade down into the valley; a nerdish man directs the hose.
The liquid clay runs in rivers to huge vats that rotate to extract the clay; the resulting powder falls through a chute into a huge storage tank. A man stands at the base of one of the clay 'mountains' and picks up a handful. The powder is seen being tipped from a lorry onto a conveyor belt, taking the clay to the hold of a ship.
Note: on file are notes on the scenes shot.
Cuts exist - see separate record.
FILM ID:289.11
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PRINCE OF WALES AT CHINA CLAY WORKS - NO SOUND
Shot of the Prince with others at the China Clay works. Shot of the men working in the Clay Pit with barrows etc.
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Cornwall College Dance | Site-Specific at Wheal Martyn
A behind-the-scenes look at Cornwall College Dance students' participation in Clay Walks, a site-specific, promenade performance at Wheal Martyn Clay Works in Cornwall. The production involved twenty local groups, and was directed by Suzie West of Spindrift Dance Collective.
Views of St Austell Bay, South Cornwall
This short film features wonderful aerial and water views of St Austell Bay on the South Cornwall coast.
With its many sandy beaches, St Austell Bay is a haven for watersports and family holidays. The area is also fantastic for walking and cycling with many woodlands and trails.
The film features shots of: St Austell Bay, Mevagissey, Pentewan, Polkerris, St Austell Brewery, Gribben Head, Wheal Martyn Museum, Charlestown, Eden Project and Heligan Gardens.
Publisher: Visit Cornwall
Producer: SoundView Media
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China Clay (1948)
St Austell, Cornwall.
At the Little Treviscoe Pit we see various shots of a china clay works. Heaps of china clay are piled about the landscape. High pressure water hoses wash the clay down from the pit walls. The liquid clay runs down the cliff, mixing with sand as it goes into a basin. It is then is pumped into the micas, a system of long channels. A man pushes the clay along with a wooden pole.
Two men covered in clay shovel thick clay from a pit into a wagon, then pull the cart along a track. Inside a drying shed the clay is tipped out into kilns and is seen bubbling as it dries.
At Fowey we see brief and dark shots of ships being loaded with dried clay.
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Bradleigh Lodge - Cornwall, United Kingdom - Awesome place!
Bradleigh Lodge - Book it now! -
A 6-minute drive from the centre of St Austell, the family-run Bradleigh Lodge offers high-quality bed and breakfast accommodation on the south Cornwall coast. With free secure parking, it is around 20 minutes' drive from the Eden Project and Truro.
Traditional in style, the rooms each offer a modern en suite bathroom with a power shower. Each room also has a modern flat-screen TV and tea and coffee facilities, with hot chocolate and biscuits.
A Continental breakfast with a selection of cereals, bread, toast and preserves, is served each morning. The spacious breakfast room has long windows and French doors opening on to the garden, ensuring pleasant views.
The largest town in Cornwall, St Austell has many restaurants, pubs and shops, as well as a cinema. Among local attractions are the St Austell Brewery and Wheal Martyn Country Park, less than 8 minutes away, while the Lost Gardens of Heligan are 13 minutes’ drive.
China Clay (1940-1949)
Title reads: British Instructional Films presents China Clay.
Location of events unknown, probably Cornwall.
Shot of a clay mountain with a quarry at the foot. A shot of the quarry fades into a graphic to illustrate which area of the ground will be quarried for the clay.
Various shots of industrial processes involved in obtaining the clay. Water from large hoses is pumped on to the ground. Another graphic illustration lists the various elements which make up the hillside. The water is shown trickling down the hillside. Intertitle reads: Clay water is pumped to sand pits. Shots of the water on its journey.
Graphic to show which elements are extracted to leave the clay. Intertitle reads: Waste sand is removed to dumps. Men working on the clays shovelling sand. Moving large barrows filled with sand. Conveyor belt to take the sand away up a steep hillside. Pipes snaking up the hillside. A large area of water, milky water being added to it. Fine particles are extracted from the water. Intertitle reads: In settling pits for about 16 hours. More shots of industrial process and graphics explaining what is happening. Intertitle reads: Drawn to kiln tanks. The water is pumped into a filter press. Intertitle reads: Pumped into filter press. Interior of building where water is extracted under high pressure. Graphic of clay being compressed to remove the water.
The clay is now formed into sheets. It is removed for drying on a trolley. Intertitle reads: Removed for drying. Clay tipped off trolley and broken up by two men with large hoes. Intertitle reads: Stored and despatched. After the clay has dried it is moved by men with shovels then transported in a mechanical digger.
End title: A British Instructional Film.
Note: sound track is missing.
FILM ID:1397.03
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St Austell - St Austell Tourist Information, St Austell Weather, Things To Do In St Austell
- St Austell - St Austell Tourist Information, St Austell Weather, Things To Do In St Austell. At the epicentre of Cornwall's china clay industry, St Austell combines heritage, contemporary commerce and tourism in one neat package. The town grew in the mid-1700s after the discovery of valuable china clay, known as white gold, in the area. Used initially in pottery, today Cornwall's china clay is shipped all over the world as an additive to everything from tyres to toothpaste. Situated about a mile from the coast and within easy access to the Eden Project and Heligan Gardens, the town's main streets are home to both local and national retailers. The recently opened chic shopping centre, White River Place, incorporates a state of the art four-screen cinema and a range of pubs, restaurants and cafes. At the historic core of the town is the fine Holy Trinity Parish Church and opposite, the Italianate facade of the Market House. The town also has a modern leisure centre with sports hall, swimming pool and squash courts.
The Eden Project. Now one of the most famous attractions in the world, a visit to Cornwall would not be complete without walking through the tropical biome in wonder at the amazing plants that tower above you.
Pop into the St Austell Brewery Visitor Centre near the main railway station. It's an interactive museum telling the story of the pubs, beers, wines and spirits of Cornwall and the families who created them.
At the Georgian village of Charlestown a mile away visit the Charlestown Shipwreck Centre packed to the gunnels with historical artefacts relating to HMS Victory, Titanic, smugglers and pirates making it the largest private collection of its type on public display in Europe.
Learn all about the china clay industry at Wheal Martyn Museum and Country Park an excellent open air museum dedicated to the area's all-encompassing industry. Apart from displays of bygone work practices, you can see the breathtakingly massive modern working pits that use high-pressure hoses to blast the clay from the ground.
Pinetum Park on the outskirts of the town is packed with exotic plants that grown in a unique microclimate. Painstakingly cultivated by ray and Shirley Clemo and planted out with seeds brought pack from their travels across the world, Pine Lodge is a gardener's paradise.
For older kids and teens Kidzworld and Cornish Market World complex is a covered outdoor leisure area with full size dodgems, mini-golf, foam shooters, pool tables, arcade games, table tennis and lots more.
Get some lucky strikes at the 8 lane at Ozzell Tenpin Bowling near the town centre. Open 12 hours a day during school holidays.
There is a new cycle/walking path that takes the old mineral tram route from the town centre all the way to the Eden Project just under 7 miles away. On route you'll pass a bizarre landscape of disused china clay pits, bright white walls and luminous turquoise water. It's all looks a bit lunar and although a far cry from Cornwall's more picturesque image, is quite fascinating.
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