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wheal
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I have just up loaded a few photographs taken this afternoon of New Shaft. Been trying to photograph this for several years without luck but the low tide today yielded results. Incredible that after being abandoned in the early 19c the wooden collar is in such good order.

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

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Peter Burgess
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6 years ago

Are there any illustrations of what it might have looked like when being worked?

ttxela
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6 years ago

Presumably from inside some sort of caisson?

wheal
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6 years ago

https://www.aditnow.co.uk/Photo/An-Early-Engraving-Of-The-Wherry-Mine_117478/

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

royfellows
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6 years ago

So Very Foolish: A History of the Wherry Mine, Penzance

https://www.moorebooks.co.uk/So-Very-Foolish-A-History-of-the-Wherry-Mine-Penzance.html

Unfortunately currently out of stock.

My avatar is a poor likeness.

wheal
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6 years ago

A wooden 'turret' sealed with tar.

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

Peter Burgess
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6 years ago

Nice - looks like flatrods driven from the shore.

royfellows
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6 years ago

Am I missing something, cant find it in the database.
Also, I note that "Wheal Speed" has "Wheal" spelt "Wheel" so is out of alphabetical order.

EDIT
Got it from the photo link, no probs

My avatar is a poor likeness.

ttxela
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6 years ago

"wheal" wrote:
https://www.aditnow.co.uk/Photo/An-Early-Engraving-Of-The-Wherry-Mine_117478/

Is that a horse at the end near the shaft?

Peter Burgess
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6 years ago

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Continual submergence often keeps timbers in a good state. It may depend on the type or wood I suppose. Shaft linings in old limestone workings near Burwash in Sussex, some 200 years old, exposed by KURG a few years back were still quite solid once you got down below the natural water level.

wheal
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6 years ago

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"ttxela" wrote:

"wheal" wrote:
https://www.aditnow.co.uk/Photo/An-Early-Engraving-Of-The-Wherry-Mine_117478/

Is that a horse at the end near the shaft?

Having blown the image up it certainly looks like it possibly drawing material up the shaft via a capstan. The mine reached a depth of around 150ft.

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

I.A.Recordings
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6 years ago

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Well done in getting out there to photograph the remains. Tried a few years ago, but the low tide wasn't low enough :(

If you haven't got a copy it is well worth tracking down Peter Joseph's "So very Foolish (A History of the Wherry Mine)" published by the Trevithick Society, 2012 (ISBN: 978 0 904040 95 1).

It is a fascinating history, but as an A5 booklet, items like this tend to "disappear" quite quickly.

Chalcocite
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6 years ago

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I'm surprised no one has done a real good survey of the long rock mine which was in the same area. 🙂

wheal
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6 years ago

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"Chalcocite" wrote:
I'm surprised no one has done a real good survey of the long rock mine which was in the same area. :)

https://www.aditnow.co.uk/SuperSize/Shaft-At-Long-Rock_47095/

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

Moorebooks
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6 years ago

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"I.A.Recordings" wrote:
Well done in getting out there to photograph the remains. Tried a few years ago, but the low tide wasn't low enough :(

If you haven't got a copy it is well worth tracking down Peter Joseph's "So very Foolish (A History of the Wherry Mine)" published by the Trevithick Society, 2012 (ISBN: 978 0 904040 95 1).

It is a fascinating history, but as an A5 booklet, items like this tend to "disappear" quite quickly.

I still have a few copies for sale a load were sold last weekend - don't know why

Mike