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Dr J
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15 years ago

Hi, hoping someone can help me! For the past while I've been working on this painting, and its finally finished but I'd really like to add the name of the mine...Does anyone know?

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The postcard it's based on just refers to a mine ruin in Cornwall...so that narrows it down to just a few hundred! :tongue:

I don't think its anywhere in the St Just/Botallack area as it doesn't familiar...so perhaps somewhere around the coast of St Agnes?

J

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spitfire
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15 years ago

It's Wheal Owles stamps engine, St Just. It's had quite a lot of restoration by the NT

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Vanoord
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15 years ago

"spitfire" wrote:
It's Wheal Owles stamps engine, St Just

Owles, everyone likes Owles...

Sorry, that's an in-joke 😞

Nice work, J! :thumbup:

Wheal Owles seems to have escaped ICLOK's camera so far... :bored:

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spitfire
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15 years ago

"Vanoord" wrote:

"spitfire" wrote:
It's Wheal Owles stamps engine, St Just

Owles, everyone likes Owles...

Sorry, that's an in-joke 😞

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Nice work, J! :thumbup:

Wheal Owles seems to have escaped ICLOK's camera so far... :bored:

No it hasn't it's just in the wrong album

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Vanoord
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15 years ago

"spitfire" wrote:
🔗Botallack-Mixed-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-004[linkphoto]Botallack-Mixed-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-004[/linkphoto][/link]

No it hasn't it's just in the wrong album

Ah.... :lol:

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Dr J
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15 years ago

Ok, thanks for that...West Wheal Owles... Is this definitely correct though? As I cant help noticing distinct lack of chimney in the photo as opposed to the feature on the postcard and painting... Did this fall down and get rebuilt then?

J

BTW-Wheal Owles, isn't that the mine which broke into flooded workings, several miners drowned?

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spitfire
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15 years ago

It is definitely so.

🔗Wheal-Owles-Tin-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-49455[linkphoto]Wheal-Owles-Tin-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-49455[/linkphoto][/link]

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ICLOK
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15 years ago

Nice Pic Mate... My :thumbup: Pics moved!

EDIT: Thats a flippin great then and now shot isn't it?

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tomh
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15 years ago

The chimney looks like it's in the wrong position if you look carefully

spitfire
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15 years ago

#10

The biggest clue is the rear window in the bob loft, very rare if not unique in any engine house

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ICLOK
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15 years ago

#11

Surely that would make the chimney on the RH side looking from the rear of the Eng Hse... is it just out of shot on your archive pic? just a thought! Regs ICLOK 🙂

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Graigfawr
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15 years ago

#12

Windows exist in rear gables of bob lofts at Talargoch Lead Mine, Dyserth, Clwyd, 100" pumping engine house of 1860, Penprys Colliery, Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, whim engine house of 1889. Based on the photos of rear gables of Cornish engine houses in Wales that I have to hand, this is a rate of around one in three.

ICLOK
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15 years ago

#13

I think spitfire is on about square windows.

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spitfire
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15 years ago

#14

quite correct ICLOK. Also the chimney is on the inside of the house

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