IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Carthew, ST. AUSTELL, PL26 8XQ
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to PL26 8XQ by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Listing (106 Images Found)
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Treverbyn: china clay dry, Wheal Martyn
Pan kiln at the Wheal Martyn China Clay Museum and Country Park. Here the under-floor heating channels have been exposed. A chimney stack aided the movement of the hot gases along these flues. In the distance can be seen a truck on the traverser or travelling bridge, enabling clay slurry to be brought to all parts of the kiln from the settling tanks. When dry the clay was cut into blocks with a shovel for dispatch. Wheal Martyn museum is in Treverbyn parish, near St Austell
Image: © Martin Bodman
Taken: 25 May 2011
0.01 miles
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Treverbyn: old settling tank
At Wheal Martyn China Clay Museum and Country Park. Clay would flow from the settling tank into the pan kiln or dry in the slate-roofed building. The remaining clay slurry would be shovelled from the tank into narrow-gauge wagons and taken onto a travelling bridge or traverser in the kiln, for distribution onto the kiln floor, to be dried before dispatch. In Treverbyn parish
Image: © Martin Bodman
Taken: 25 May 2011
0.02 miles
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Old Pond
An old pond now a mini nature reserve and a haven for dragon flies.
Image: © Jay Pea
Taken: 7 May 2021
0.02 miles
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Water Wheels
A pair of water wheels, the larger of the pair drove the coupling rods to the edge of the pit several hundred yards up the hillside to pump China Clay slurry down to Wheal Martyn for processing.
Image: © Jay Pea
Taken: 7 May 2021
0.02 miles
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Treverbyn: tanks and dries, Wheal Martyn
At Wheal Martyn China Clay Museum. The dries or pan kilns are the linear slate roofed buildings on the left. In front of the dries are the settling tanks which used to accommodate china clay slurry after it had been processed through settling pits and mica drags. An overgrown, disused, sky tip stands on the skyline. In Treverbyn parish
Image: © Martin Bodman
Taken: 25 May 2011
0.03 miles
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Rough Settling Troughs China Clay Museum
As the slurry was washed down from the hillside through these troughs, the coarser unwanted material was removed.
Image: © Nigel Mykura
Taken: 3 Mar 2016
0.03 miles
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China clay museum Wheal Martyn
Mica drags
Image: © Chris Gunns
Taken: 18 May 2012
0.03 miles
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Inspection of the Pumping Rods
A section of the former pumping rod system used at Wheal Martyn.
Image: © Jay Pea
Taken: 7 May 2021
0.04 miles
