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GolowDydh
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17 years ago

A wonderful photo, this engine house was 'restored' in 2005 and now houses a web design company. More recently the boiler and compressor house shown in the picture was converted into offices (where I happen to work) Any idea of date?

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ICLOK
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17 years ago

I don't know when, but I have just updated Kitty with some archive pics from 11.02.98 when they were in use by a scrappy or car dealer.... , the other buildings had not long been converted by this point.

Interestingly I met a lovely old guy (in his 70's) with his son on site, Kenneth Prisk was his name and his father was apparently the last mine captain at Wheal Kitty, he could barely walk but he had gone out his way to see the place.
He certainly had some tall tales and some real knowledge of the mine.

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Roy Morton
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17 years ago

Funnily enough I know a couple who run a business from there too and these pics are on the wall.
The photo's are 1926...I think, but I will check once I can find my notes.
The fellow at the bottom right with his hand in a sling is Arthur Jory. What he didn't know about mining could be written on a pin head with a felt tip. He appears in some of the South Crofty pictures replacing a beam that had broken and fallen into the top of the shaft.
Note also the name on the cheekplate of the crab winch 'Andrew' this is SJ Andrew the steel merchant in Redruth and the dapper guy with the trilby on the left side of the bob platt is Eric Andrew. Other members of the family were also there that day. The celebrated mining engineer and historian Jack Trounson appears in one of the later shots.
Roy

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