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Dolcoathguy Joined: 21/05/2008 Location: Camborne, Cornwall View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
Dunkins garden Shaft / harriet shaft, Dolcoath
Posted: 07/07/2009 09:38:47 Reply | Quote Saw RHO van and 2 guys setting up a frame near to Dunkins Garden Shaft, Dolcoath. I am guessing that they maybe removing some of the stone seats around it as the new CPR(Regeneration) road will go right over it. IP: 78.146.220.19 Edited: 13/07/2009 20:24:12 by Dolcoathguy |
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Knocker Joined: 17/06/2008 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
Dunkins garden Shaft, Dolcoath
Posted: 07/07/2009 13:35:13 Reply | Quote You never noticed the steel structure? IP: 90.221.179.116 |
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Dolcoathguy Joined: 21/05/2008 Location: Camborne, Cornwall View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
Dunkins garden Shaft, Dolcoath
Posted: 07/07/2009 13:45:53 Reply | Quote I thought they were setting up a lifting frame as it was looking all new. I wasn't there long enough to see what they finished doing. Will pop down tonight and have a look! IP: 78.146.97.27 |
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Knocker Joined: 17/06/2008 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
Dunkins garden Shaft, Dolcoath
Posted: 07/07/2009 18:10:42 Reply | Quote Found out whats going on over there, the frame is a stand for an ex wheal Jane Sheave Wheal. The stones were moved for the crane that is installing the winder on Thursday. IP: 90.221.179.116 |
Tezarchaeon Joined: 14/08/2008 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
Dunkins garden Shaft, Dolcoath
Posted: 07/07/2009 18:27:03 Reply | Quote Is that the same sheave wheel that was outside of Redruth tescos for a while and was just left at the mercy of the plants around it? I do hope so as it needs to be put in a better place. IP: 84.68.182.229 |
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Dolcoathguy Joined: 21/05/2008 Location: Camborne, Cornwall View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
Dunkins garden Shaft, Dolcoath
Posted: 08/07/2009 06:55:51 Reply | Quote Thanks for Info, Knocker. Had a look, as you mentioned, they have set up a frame above a grassy area which will be a prominent feature on the junction of the new road that will be built right next to it. They have also fenced off the grassed area North of Harriet engine house, blocking off several paths with no signage! (ie you walk 20 yards up the track and find it fenced off). IP: 92.27.166.93 Edited: 08/07/2009 07:00:22 by Dolcoathguy |
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Knocker Joined: 17/06/2008 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
Dunkins garden Shaft, Dolcoath
Posted: 08/07/2009 07:57:49 Reply | Quote Yeah, apparently the fencing was down to the Council yesterday morning, the guy doing the job is Pete Robinson (Ex Janer), he couldn't understand why the council fenced it off yesterday! IP: 90.221.179.116 |
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Knocker Joined: 17/06/2008 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
Dunkins garden Shaft, Dolcoath
Posted: 13/07/2009 08:43:15 Reply | Quote The winder is looking great, now all it nees is a house! lol. The Sheave Wheal at the entrance to the site is also looking fantastic. IP: 90.221.179.97 |
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Dolcoathguy Joined: 21/05/2008 Location: Camborne, Cornwall View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
Dunkins garden Shaft, Dolcoath
Posted: 13/07/2009 09:27:19 Reply | Quote This sort of thing always causes debates about items placed "out of context" vs. Preserving items that may have gone to the scrapyard. Someone has already asked me if one of the boilers used to be in the "dry", but I suspect it was something from Crofty or Jane as the boilers from Harriet engine house Miner's dry probably ended up as scrap or a tank in WWII. IP: 194.126.226.253 Edited: 13/07/2009 10:01:08 by Dolcoathguy |
spitfire Joined: 22/04/2008 Location: Camborne View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
Dunkins garden Shaft, Dolcoath
Posted: 13/07/2009 09:38:48 Reply | Quote The German Cornish boiler now at Dolcoath came from Toldish Tin & iron mine removed about sixteen years ago and stored at Crofty. The winder now stands on its original base when new, but when it was winding from Harriots' it only had one drum. the second was added by Holmans when it was moved to Roskear shaft -- spitfire IP: 81.141.108.124 Edited: 13/07/2009 17:33:06 by spitfire |
carnkie Joined: 07/09/2007 Location: camborne, cornwall View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
Dunkins garden Shaft / harriet shaft, Dolcoath
Posted: 14/07/2009 17:12:30 Reply | Quote Knocker wrote: The winder is looking great, now all it nees is a house! lol. The Sheave Wheal at the entrance to the site is also looking fantastic. I agree. Popped in briefly this PM. Won't upload many photos as no point in replicating the ones Dolcoathguy has already posted. (click image to open full size image in new window) -- The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there. IP: 79.74.244.65 |
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Dolcoathguy Joined: 21/05/2008 Location: Camborne, Cornwall View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
Dunkins garden Shaft / harriet shaft, Dolcoath
Posted: 14/07/2009 20:04:48 Reply | Quote Carnkie, Might be worth uploading some if they have completed the installation, my photos were with a cameraphone in passing with the fencing still up and other parts still to install. So if you have photos taken with a more powerful camera showing the finished installation, please feel free to replace mine, I can delete any duplicates of mine. IP: 78.144.200.84 |
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carnkie Joined: 07/09/2007 Location: camborne, cornwall View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
Dunkins garden Shaft / harriet shaft, Dolcoath
Posted: 14/07/2009 20:50:52 Reply | Quote Okay I'll add a couple. Can always be sorted later. -- The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there. IP: 79.74.212.203 |
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scooptram Joined: 22/05/2007 Location: Camborne Cornwall View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
Dunkins garden Shaft / harriet shaft, Dolcoath
Posted: 14/07/2009 20:54:00 Reply | Quote god not another red thing  it would have been grey-- mind that rock OUCH IP: 81.132.160.95 |
Roy Morton Joined: 09/10/2007 Location: Redruth Cornwall View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
Dunkins garden Shaft / harriet shaft, Dolcoath
Posted: 14/07/2009 23:46:19 Reply | Quote It should be grey!!! Looks like the blo*dy wheel of fortune in red!  -- 'Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear' IP: 81.153.210.132 |
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Tezarchaeon Joined: 14/08/2008 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
Dunkins garden Shaft / harriet shaft, Dolcoath
Posted: 15/07/2009 00:03:58 Reply | Quote I believe they were originally yellow on No.2 shaft during their time at Wheal Jane. IP: 81.76.13.103 |
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Dolcoathguy Joined: 21/05/2008 Location: Camborne, Cornwall View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
Dunkins garden Shaft / harriet shaft, Dolcoath
Posted: 15/07/2009 07:22:06 Reply | Quote Any guesses until how long it will take some moron to try and strip the metal cable from the winder because they think it is a drum of Copper electrical wire left over by Western Power? IP: 194.126.226.253 |
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Dolcoathguy Joined: 21/05/2008 Location: Camborne, Cornwall View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
Dunkins garden Shaft / harriet shaft, Dolcoath
Posted: 23/08/2009 20:55:01 Reply | Quote After a few months, the equipment installed here has proved very popular with the local youth. Climbing inside the winders and sitting on the boiler is very popular. BBQs have taken place next to the winders. The boiler makes a satisfying gong when hit with a ball and everyone peers in the firebox. This may sound like a criticisim but in fact it is not, as no one has yet destroyed or broken or painted anything and I think it has given local kids a real feel of mining equipment. IP: 89.242.108.56 |
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