Another shaft opens up..(Camborne)

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Dolcoathguy
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11 years ago

I guess they mean Tehidy road Stores??

http://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/House-collapses-near-Camborne-close-shaft-opened/story-20519489-detail/story.html?ito=email_newsletter_thisiscornwall#axzz2rnDUzLzA

It is the junction of Eastern Lane with Enys Road just before the Tehidy road post office ...

Nothing marked on Hamilton Jenkins maps, must be old!
Gustavus mine maybe??

BBC suggests not a shaft?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-25942266

After a further inspection the consensus is that it is a shaft...
(BBC report updated!)

Is it safe to come out of the bunker yet?

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Roy Morton
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11 years ago

More likely to be Parc An Bowen I think.

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Drillbilly.
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11 years ago

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I was drilling up the road and noticed it was on the move and snapped a pic. The house next door has a circular collapse structure which is choked with rubbish. I gather it was open.

Anyway, the whole building is buggered and I imagine it will be torn down, fixed and replaced with some quality rabbit hutches.

Dolcoathguy
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11 years ago

"Roy Morton" wrote:
More likely to be Parc An Bowen I think.

Good call Roy, AB was on Spotlight and said the same (after you had posted your reply).

I know 2 friends who have houses within 100 yds of this one and they are worried.

Is it safe to come out of the bunker yet?

Roy Morton
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11 years ago

He obviously follows the site :angel:
Wait till I see him next 😉 😉

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Roy Morton
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11 years ago

I snapped this one on the 15th of January and it looks like things are on the move. They could do with extending the fence perimeter though.

Watch This Space !
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Roy Morton
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11 years ago

Getting Back to the Tehidy Road/Eastern Lane collapse.
This is the adjoining property and I took these pics in October 2012; the subsidence had occurred at least 3 years before. I was expecting this one to go at some point but it's been stable now for some time.
Google Earth street view includes the hole.

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Drillbilly.
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11 years ago

Rumour has it that the carpark is fine

Knocker
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11 years ago

Interesting thing is the house next door was sold via auction about 2 years ago, with the auction pack there was a mining report which bascally suggested minimum work was required to stabilise it - I guess whoever bought it must have realised they had bought a lemon and have never done anything with it. Could be an interesting liability issue for the insurers!

Drillbilly.
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11 years ago

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It may have had a report but was not drilled afaik.

Knocker
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11 years ago

#11

From memory, it basically said the three features were old shallow workings and not shafts, that required infilling and the house locally underpinning.

Roy Morton
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11 years ago

#12

It seems the whole locality could do with underpinning. 😮

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carnkie
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11 years ago

#13

Was it not the case that a few years ago a huge hole appeared in the road directly opposite this house. If I remember correctly the house opposite this one was up for sale and that went at auction as well.

As far as I know there are also three shafts behind Tehidy Post Office.

I live a couple of hundred yards away.

The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.

carnkie
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11 years ago

#14

My previous post was of course incorrect, It refers to the bottom of Tehidy road.

Anyone for a bath.

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