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Portable prospecting plant of Carnon Consolidated Tin Mines Ltd, seen at Sampson's Shaft of the Gwennap United Mines. A subsidiary of the Rio Tinto Zinc Corporation. Carbon are (were) the local operators of Wheal Jane and Mount Wellington mines.

Sampsons Shaft Gwennap United subsidiary of RTZ. Carnon operated Wheal Jane and Mount Wellington

Prospecting Plant of Carnon Consolidated Tin Mines Ltd at Sampson Shaft of Gwennap United Mines a subsidiary of RTZ. Carnon are Local Operators of Wheal Jane & Mount Wellington Mines

Prospecting Plant of Carnon Consolidated Tin Mines Ltd at Sampson Shaft of Gwennap United Mines a subsidiary of RTZ. Carnon are Local Operators of Wheal Jane & Mount Wellington Mines

Water Pumps used in Cornwall until 1950 when Electric Pumps intro- duced

Same shoot as 163,164

View across the beach area to the rock formation named Castle Treen Dinas.
Of interest to the reverse of the card is a hand ink stamped logo for Lands End

Porth Hellick Down Entrace Grave.

Overview

Overview, the correct name is Porth Nanven

Porthchapel Beach, near St. Levan

Porthcurno Beach

View from the seaward side showing the Cable and Wireless Telegraph Station building to the right, which is now houses the Telegraph Museum.
With a hand written message in ink to the reverse of the postcard to a recipient in Helston

Porthcurno showing the old Cable hut

Copy of a Post card looking across Porthcurno Bay towards Porthcurno inlet showing "the black house," Initial connecting point for the cable . also the Grooves in the cliff which were used for the Cables by Cable and Wireless.

Operating C & W Relay Equipment. General view of cable relay equipment when moved into new tunnels early in WW2. This view shows half the room, a similar length lies behind the camera. The lamps on the wall (red homewards and green outwards) are…