Dunkins garden Shaft / harriet shaft, Dolcoath

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Dolcoathguy
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16 years ago

Saw RHO van and 2 guys setting up a frame near to Dunkins Garden Shaft, Dolcoath.
I am guessing that they maybe removing some of the stone seats around it as the new CPR(Regeneration) road will go right over it.

Is it safe to come out of the bunker yet?

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Knocker
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16 years ago

You never noticed the steel structure?

Dolcoathguy
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16 years ago

I thought they were setting up a lifting frame as it was looking all new. I wasn't there long enough to see what they finished doing.
Will pop down tonight and have a look!

Is it safe to come out of the bunker yet?

Knocker
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16 years ago

Found out whats going on over there, the frame is a stand for an ex wheal Jane Sheave Wheal. The stones were moved for the crane that is installing the winder on Thursday.

Tezarchaeon
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16 years ago

Is that the same sheave wheel that was outside of Redruth tescos for a while and was just left at the mercy of the plants around it? I do hope so as it needs to be put in a better place.

Dolcoathguy
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16 years ago

Thanks for Info, Knocker.
Had a look, as you mentioned, they have set up a frame above a grassy area which will be a prominent feature on the junction of the new road that will be built right next to it.
They have also fenced off the grassed area North of Harriet engine house, blocking off several paths with no signage! (ie you walk 20 yards up the track and find it fenced off).

Is it safe to come out of the bunker yet?

Knocker
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16 years ago

Yeah, apparently the fencing was down to the Council yesterday morning, the guy doing the job is Pete Robinson (Ex Janer), he couldn't understand why the council fenced it off yesterday!

Knocker
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16 years ago

The winder is looking great, now all it nees is a house! lol.
The Sheave Wheal at the entrance to the site is also looking fantastic.

Dolcoathguy
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16 years ago

This sort of thing always causes debates about items placed "out of context" vs. Preserving items that may have gone to the scrapyard. Someone has already asked me if one of the boilers used to be in the "dry", but I suspect it was something from Crofty or Jane as the boilers from Harriet engine house Miner's dry probably ended up as scrap or a tank in WWII.

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spitfire
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16 years ago

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The German Cornish boiler now at Dolcoath came from Toldish Tin & iron mine removed about sixteen years ago and stored at Crofty.
The winder now stands on its original base when new, but when it was winding from Harriots' it only had one drum. the second was added by Holmans when it was moved to Roskear shaft

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carnkie
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16 years ago

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"Knocker" wrote:
The winder is looking great, now all it nees is a house! lol.
The Sheave Wheal at the entrance to the site is also looking fantastic.

I agree. Popped in briefly this PM. Won't upload many photos as no point in replicating the ones Dolcoathguy has already posted.
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The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.

Dolcoathguy
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16 years ago

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Carnkie,
Might be worth uploading some if they have completed the installation, my photos were with a cameraphone in passing with the fencing still up and other parts still to install.
So if you have photos taken with a more powerful camera showing the finished installation, please feel free to replace mine, I can delete any duplicates of mine.

Is it safe to come out of the bunker yet?

carnkie
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16 years ago

#13

Okay I'll add a couple. Can always be sorted later.

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

scooptram
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16 years ago

#14

god not another red thing 😠 it would have been grey

Roy Morton
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16 years ago

#15

It should be grey!!!
Looks like the blo*dy wheel of fortune in red! :curse:

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"But I''m not Chinese!"
"Then you must have forgotten something!"

Tezarchaeon
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16 years ago

#16

I believe they were originally yellow on No.2 shaft during their time at Wheal Jane.

Dolcoathguy
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16 years ago

#17

Any guesses until how long it will take some moron to try and strip the metal cable from the winder because they think it is a drum of Copper electrical wire left over by Western Power?

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Dolcoathguy
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16 years ago

#18

After a few months, the equipment installed here has proved very popular with the local youth. Climbing inside the winders and sitting on the boiler is very popular. BBQs have taken place next to the winders.
The boiler makes a satisfying gong when hit with a ball and everyone peers in the firebox.
This may sound like a criticisim but in fact it is not, as no one has yet destroyed or broken or painted anything and I think it has given local kids a real feel of mining equipment.

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