Porthtowan - Wheal Lushington engine house

Introduction

The photograph on this page of Porthtowan - Wheal Lushington engine house by Chris Allen as part of the Geograph project.

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Porthtowan - Wheal Lushington engine house

Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 18 Sep 2016

The engine house was built for an "all indoors" beam engine that was never installed and now makes a distinctive house. In the foreground is the building housing the RNLI lifeguards and the local lifesaving club.

Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0

Image Location

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Latitude
50.286069
Longitude
-5.241984