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Miners

Miners

Miners working in a shaft at the 170 fathom level. This item is a lantern slide.

Note bunches of candles being carried for work underground.

Miners at Wheal Veor (Wheal Vor) Mine, wearing gear and helmets with acetylene lamps.

Gear Mine on the slopes of Trink Hill
Giew Mine closed 1922 see Williamd G a history of Giew Mine, journalof Trevithick Society No.11 1984. Cornish Studies Library Redruth.

A group of miners at Geevor Mine. There are 18in spanner tallow candles fixed with clay to their helmets.

Tamping Rods?

This painting was copied for Miss Rowena Cade, she had King Charles Spaniels

Mining Map Ref. MOR/MAP 37 SR No 12.

Mining / Quarry Pick Heads

Mining Artefacts

Mining Artefacts

Mining Artefacts

Mining Engine houses Head gear Levant. Outcrop of tin and copper greater than any other mine on Lands End Peninsula

Mining Equipment

Mining Hammers and Picks Assorted

Mining Large group of workers surface Tramsor tubs tipping material or ore into a Steam Lorry.

A Group of workers above ground. (posed)
Showing bal maidens.
The print is glued to a piece of an old Admiral Benbow ,Chapel Street restaurant Menu with prices in old pence.

Mining surface workings Levant.