The following historic images are courtesy Kresen Kernow archive, published by J C Burrow circa 1890.
Category: Cornwall
Duchy Records state that in 1799 the Wheal Virgin mine was “raising tin fast,” and was owned by a company called Gill and Co, its agent
Amalgamated alongside Wheal Cupboard and Poldory into United Mines around 1780. A great many of the mine pumps and engines of the area were installed by Richard Michell.
The only engine house in Cornwall to have a castellated stack! Wheal Ellen was in operation in the 1850’s and could have been a re-working
West Chiverton / Great West Chiverton mine was a rich producer of lead, silver-lead and zinc. At its peek it employed around 1,000 people. Batters’
The oldest of the mines in the Kit Hill/Gunnislake area was at Holmbush, the massive burrows of whcih stand immediately West of the Stoke Climsland
Already a considerable copper producer by the end of the eighteenth century, Old Gunnislake Mine is reputed to have produced over half a million pound’s
The earliest documented record of mining at Gunnislake Clitters dates to the 1820s. However, mining was probably going on long before, and within Clitters Wood
Hingston Down was a copper mine worked from at least the 17th century. During the 1850s rich copper deposits were discovered and by 1864, 225