View from the stamps engine house Wheal Peevor
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View from the stamps engine house Wheal Peevor
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 14 May 2018
This is the view from inside the house for the 32" stamps engine at Wheal Peevor. Erected in 1876 to drive a set of Cornish stamps (for crushing the ore). The cylinder opening is not in the rear wall but is in the south side wall where I had entered the building to look through the west wall. In 1912 the steam engine was replaced by a 150 horsepower gas-oil engine driving new Californian stamps. The plug door was widened to accommodate the drive built and this account for the odd-shaped opening in the bob wall. In the distance to the left is the 22" inch stamps engine house for West Peevor mine. This is on private land and in a dangerous condition.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.253279
Longitude
-5.217728