Engine houses at Fortescue's Shaft, Wheal Grenville
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Image: © Rod Allday Taken: 22 Oct 2008
Both built in 1892, in the foreground is the winding engine house and the pumping engine house is at the rear. The stack on the latter was originally higher but was damaged by a lightning strike in 1897. Wheal Grenville closed in 1920.
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