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Radnor Road, REDRUTH, TR16 4BQ

This chapel building has the words "United Methodist Church" and "1902" above the door. It looks like it is now being used for storage or industry.

This, the main engine house at Wheal Peevor mine, originally ran a 60" pump, followed by a 70" leviathan, to keep the mine workings clear of water. The main boiler chimney is obvious (most of the remains of the boiler house have gone, but they were to the left of the picture, and the door quarterway up on the left led into the boilerhouse); the assorted other openings on the walls provided routes for various steam pipes and support beams for the engines.

In 1872, this building housed the original 22" cylinder steam whim, which powered a winding drum of cable that lifted ore up the main Sir Frederick's Shaft, anything up to 650' below ground level. When the mine was re-activated in 1911, the original engine was ditched, and replaced by a twin cylinder horizontal steam engine, mounted on the concrete plinths nearby.

The arch is what is left of the boiler house for the pumping engine house on George's (later Sir Frederick's) shaft. The house was built in 1872 having been moved from Little North Downs Mine with a 60" engine believed to be possibly of 1835 vintage. It ceased work in 1887 but was mothballed until being scrapped in 1900. In 1912 an old 70" inch engine was squeezed in and the shaft renamed Sir Frederick's Shaft. The mine was unsuccessfully reworked for Tungsten from 1912 to 1918 and again in 1938. I don't know when the 70" was scrapped though. The house in the background is the 1876 house for a 32" rotative stamps engine.

From 1872, this building originally housed a 60" steam-powered pumping engine, which was replaced in 1911 by a 70" monster. It lifted water out of the main 'Sir Frederick's Shaft', a 660' hole, the capped opening of which is still visible immediately to the right of the right-hand wall.

The pumping engine house is closest on the left and the distant chimney is on the stamps engine house. The whim engine house is hidden out of sight to the left. This grouping of three engine houses is best seen from a distance.

The three engine houses here are best appreciated from a distance, either on or across the A30. Here the stamps engine house is on the left, the pumping engine house is right of centre and the chimney on the winding engine house just peeks over the undergrowth on the right. The dressing floor area is virtually under the photographer with a buddle just visible at the bottom edge. The stamp drive was converted from beam engine to gas engine. The gas engine was in the beam engine house and drove via a belt through the widened plug door. This is an unusual feature.

Built 1876 for a 32" rotative beam engine driving Cornish stamps and later converted to house a gas-oil engine.