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Levant Mine and Beam Engine is one of over 200 attractions around the UK that Blue Peter badge holders can get into for free. To gain free entry, each child must have a Blue Peter badge, a valid ...
Levant Mine is home to the only winding beam engine in steam, still in its original engine house. The National Trust is on the lookout for volunteers to help share the story of Cornish mining.
Recreating life as a mine worker in the tin mines of Levant, Ray Wyse is an engine driver on the restored 1840's beam engine which runs on steam.Every half an hour you can watch Ray and engine ...
Then, to learn more about the local industry of yesteryear, check out the Levant Mine and Beam Engine, site of the former tin and copper mine and its steam-powered engine which was used to pump ...
Follow the coast road north to the Levant Mine and Beam Engine, on what was also known, pre-Poldark, as the “Tin Coast”. Little remains other than the main engine room, an old two-storey stone ...
The engine, which is of the beam type, has a cylinder 24 in. in diameter with a stroke of 4 ft ... and an appeal has been made for funds for the purchase of a winding engine at Levant Mine, ...
Levant mine appears on Martyn's map of Cornwall of 1748, but only came together as a mine in 1820. It is best known for its 1919 disaster when the mine's rather antiquated man engine collapsed ...
Levant Mine and Beam Engine (Image: Getty) “This is our land just as Land’s End was before it was taken from us. Stop this wanton destruction and commercialisation of our Cornwall.” ...
The National Trust has been accused of being "insensitive" for charging visitors to park near the site of the Levant Mine disaster in Cornwall after the BBC's Poldark boosted the location's ...
Levant Mine is home to the only winding beam engine in steam, still in its original engine house. The National Trust is on the lookout for volunteers to help share the story of Cornish mining.