Engine House- Great Wheal Vor (Wheal Metal)

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Engine House- Great Wheal Vor (Wheal Metal)

Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 21 May 2017

This is the best view from the public road and not involving trespass. It is nice to see consolidation in progress. This finely proportioned engine house is listed Grade II and housed a 85" Cornish beam pumping engine on Ivey's Shaft of the Wheal Metal section of this rich and venerable tin mine. The engine was built in 1855, transferred here in 1864 and removed to the Newcastle & Gateshead Water Company's site at Wylam in c1880. It survived into the 1940s.

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