Carn Galver & Lanyon Quoit

[changeling67]

One misty, moisty morning when cloudy was the weather...

Today has been my day off and I have celebrated it, by taking a misty drive with my son around the north cliffs of West Cornwall.  I am always interested to take photos of derelict buildings, especially Cornish Heritage - the Tin Mines from the Industrial Revolution.
This is part of Carn Galver, near Zennor, details are as follows;

Carn Galver (Wheal Rose) Tin Mine (United Kingdom)

Carn Galver Mine. The name Carn Galver means rockpile at the lookout place. There is a small pumping and a whim engine house on the St Just - St Ives coastal road (B3306). The mine was worked until 1878. It was restored twenty ago by the National Trust. This mine was never really productive and suffered from drainage problems.

Carn Galver Mine appears to have operated 1851–59, and 1871–77, 1882, becoming in 1907 Bosigran Consols

Gurnard's Head copper mine was operating in the 1830's using a 20 inch wide water wheel. Porthmeor Valley - contains many mining remains, including water wheel pits and circular ore washing sites Carn Galver - near the hamlet of Rosemergy, was part of Morvah and Zennor United. It was a very wet mine, and the pump drew water from 780 feet down, with a second engine used to raise and crush the ore. It stopped working in 1878

1871 it employed seventy miners, with an adit 70 fathoms below the surface and a shaft sunk to 130 fathoms. The ore was crushed by a compound steam engine, fitted with two pneumatic stamps. The mine was pumped out by steam power.


Content taken from:

http://www.cornwall-calling.co.uk/mines/st-just-area/carn-galver.htm

Lanyon Quoit - an ancient Megalithc chamber - more details -----> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanyon_Quoit.

My Flickr Photos

Carn Galver - http://www.flickr.com/photos/schnowbaby/sets/72157642297494664/
Lanyon Quoit - http://www.flickr.com/photos/schnowbaby/sets/72157642295036795/

Comments

[bardcat.livejournal.com]

Ah! Wonderful! I feel like I was there!

[calico-pye.livejournal.com]

It's been a very foggy day - but it was lovely to have some time off :-)

[kingtycoon.livejournal.com]

Western Hemisphere: The derelict buildings and structures were all built by your grandparents generation.

Eastern Hemisphere: The derelict buildings and structures each have a branch of scholarship dedicated to them and a museum with a gift shop.

[calico-pye.livejournal.com]

We have many derelict mine works in Cornwall, because it was the most prolific tin, copper and china clay pits in the UK, from the time of the Industrial Revolution then tailing off around the 1980s. There are a few of the Engine Houses still intact - they have some small museums and/or coffee shop added on.

With the Megalithic sites, usually they are protected by laws, so they can be seen/touched, but not 'disney-fied' eg plastic keyrings etc. That is left to the holiday resort areas. There are plenty of stone circles from the Megalithic times in Cornwall, left over from a more Celtic/pagan time :-)