Wheal Owles - New Poldark Series

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jhluxton
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11 years ago

From a picture posted on The Poldark 2015 Facebook Page it appears that filming of the new series will take place around Wheal Owles, a replica horse whim appears to have been erected and the engine house appears to be having some temporary wooden bits added to it.
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fjällvandring
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11 years ago

Poldark arg! I can't wait to see what Jud will be like in this series, he was always my favourite character.

jeg elsker Norge, landets dialekter, folk, landskap og naturen!

agricola
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11 years ago

Was in the area Thursday, looking good ... Will take camera next time .

If it can't be grown it has to be mined.

grimwald
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11 years ago

My son is location assistant on the filming, so yes it is true some of Poldark will be filmed at Wheal Owles, tho' some of the crew seem to be worried about a radiation issue, can't imagine why.:confused::lol:

Drillbilly.
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11 years ago

The Owles tips are ok-ish, it's Edward which is off the scale.

Cave Witch
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11 years ago

Wheal Owles! Hope they like radiation.

Dolcoathguy
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10 years ago

A list of locations can be found here:
http://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/11801484.Poldark_fan__Why_not_visit_the_top_seven_locations_used_in_new_TV_adaptation/?ref=mr

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3636060/locations

Is it safe to come out of the bunker yet?

exspelio
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10 years ago

Ho, Hum!,
Expect an invasion of 'TV Tourists', I know Hayfield & area had one after 'The Village', Hadfield after 'League of Gentlemen', and Holmfirth is still ongoing from 'Last of the Summer Wine', apparently these people capture stills from the programme and go looking for the locations! 😮 ----

Get a life!!!

Always remember, nature is in charge, get it wrong and it is you who suffers!.

Tony Blair
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10 years ago

My ex-was from Scarborough. I remember going into a pub in Cloughton (famous yellow sandstone) hoping for a Last of The Summer Wine vibe. Although there was a chap wi' flat cap 'n' whippet, the rest of the encumbents were like something out of Devonport, ie:- chavs with leisurewear and lager

RJV
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10 years ago

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"Tony Blair" wrote:
I remember going into a pub in Cloughton (famous yellow sandstone) hoping for a Last of The Summer Wine vibe.

Think you need a new map!

That's a akin to going to a pub in Redruth hoping to get an authentic Taunton experience... ::)

Dolcoathguy
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10 years ago

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After watching it, all I could keep thinking about was that was a pretty big engine house for a drive of "30 fathoms" ..obviously built to put a Boulton / Watt beam engine in, in the near future when they started to make them. :)

Yes I know, the program makers had to make do with what is around..... at least it led to an interesting conversation with a colleague about when the first cast iron beams started to be used.

Is it safe to come out of the bunker yet?

AR
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10 years ago

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"Tony Blair" wrote:
My ex-was from Scarborough. I remember going into a pub in Cloughton (famous yellow sandstone) hoping for a Last of The Summer Wine vibe. Although there was a chap wi' flat cap 'n' whippet, the rest of the encumbents were like something out of Devonport, ie:- chavs with leisurewear and lager

You needed to carry on up the road to Staintondale and the Shepherds Arms (alas, now closed) to get the proper rural pub experience, beside which it wouldn't have been be "Last of the Summer Wine" - it's Woollybacks not Wezzies up that way....

Follow the horses, Johnny my laddie, follow the horses canny lad-oh!

Dolcoathguy
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10 years ago

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Did anyone else spot a glaring "what was missing" from all the Engine houses last night?
Are they all waiting for a mass delivery?

Is it safe to come out of the bunker yet?

wheal
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10 years ago

#14

The 100 years in the future headgear on Allens Shaft of Botallack slipped through too.:)

poke around long enough and you'll find something..

Roy Morton
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10 years ago

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"Dolcoathguy" wrote:
Did anyone else spot a glaring "what was missing" from all the Engine houses last night?
Are they all waiting for a mass delivery?

I guess you are referring to the boiler house, or lack of one.
They must be stripping the workings above adit at present, to make enough money to buy one and put the engine to work again. Then there's the cost of the coal, and an engine driver and.....sod it lets go streaming! :lol:

"You Chinese think of everything!"
"But I''m not Chinese!"
"Then you must have forgotten something!"

exspelio
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10 years ago

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Errr-- there was smoke coming out of the stack last Sunday eve's programme :confused:

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AR
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10 years ago

#17

Given that it's set in the 1780s I would have thought they'd mainly have Newcomen engines with the boilers under the cylinder at that point? I wonder if Ross will strike it rich at the mine and be able to afford one of those flashy new Watt engines....:lol:

Follow the horses, Johnny my laddie, follow the horses canny lad-oh!

Tamarmole
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10 years ago

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"AR" wrote:
Given that it's set in the 1780s I would have thought they'd mainly have Newcomen engines with the boilers under the cylinder at that point? I wonder if Ross will strike it rich at the mine and be able to afford one of those flashy new Watt engines....:lol:

On May 18th 1783 James Watt wrote to Mathew Boulton that twenty one of their engines had been erected in the County and that only one Newcomen engine remained. :smartass:

Peter Burgess
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10 years ago

#19

I didn't notice any bobs or pump rods. But I was only half watching the program.

Dolcoathguy
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10 years ago

#20

That's exactly what I noticed Peter!

Where were the Bob / beams?

Also as others have also pointed out
Where were the Boilers?
Where were the huge piles of Coal need to power it all?
Would "600 guineas" get a New Boulton / Watt engine?

I suppose you could argue they only worked to adit level and the smoke was from cooking whilst they await delivery of a new engine.

Poldark also mentioned using Iron Ladders - would they have lasted longer than pitch pine in that corrosive setting?

Is it safe to come out of the bunker yet?