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spitfire Joined: 22/04/2008 Location: Camborne View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Goonvean & Rostowrack Posted: 11/09/2008 10:57:28 Reply \| Quote The beam engine at the above pit is now in the last stages of being removed to be put into storage. Rumour has it that it will latter go to Hayle to be put on display, Albeit in dismantled form! -- spitfire IP: 81.141.104.209
Tezarchaeon Joined: 14/08/2008 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Goonvean & Rostowrack Posted: 11/09/2008 12:06:48 Reply \| Quote You aren't serious about the engine not being re-assmbled are you? If so then thats a really sad way to end the engines life. IP: 86.143.192.187
Peter Burgess Joined: 01/07/2008 Location: Merstham. Or is it Godstone ...... ? View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Goonvean & Rostowrack Posted: 11/09/2008 13:19:44 Reply \| Quote Yes, very sad. I'm glad I live close to Kew Bridge. I might not visit more than once in a blue moon, but the sight and smell of the place is unforgettable. Silent power is so much more awe-inspiring than a mega-horsepower infernal combustion engine. So what steam power sites are there in Cornwall? Levant? Anywhere else? -- Hey, who turned out the lights! IP: 81.144.191.248
carnkie Joined: 07/09/2007 Location: camborne, cornwall View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Goonvean & Rostowrack Posted: 11/09/2008 13:46:06 Reply \| Quote Regarding metal mines there are two at East Pool and Agar, Taylor's pump and Michell's whim, And the Robinson pumping engine at South Crofty. Spitfire can probably add to the list. -- The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there. IP: 88.105.173.199
Peter Burgess Joined: 01/07/2008 Location: Merstham. Or is it Godstone ...... ? View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Goonvean & Rostowrack Posted: 11/09/2008 14:19:52 Reply \| Quote Sorry, I didn't make myself clear. I meant live steam. -- Hey, who turned out the lights! IP: 81.144.191.248
carnkie Joined: 07/09/2007 Location: camborne, cornwall View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Goonvean & Rostowrack Posted: 11/09/2008 14:32:45 Reply \| Quote Right. I was just about to give a link to the Cruquius engine in Holland that was the biggest ever built and has been restored to working order although they now don't use steam to drive it. I'll give it anyway as it's an interesting site. [web link] -- The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there. IP: 88.105.193.40
spitfire Joined: 22/04/2008 Location: Camborne View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Goonvean & Rostowrack Posted: 11/09/2008 14:52:21 Reply \| Quote There are now ( or will be ) three beam engines in bits. the Rostowrack rotary and the Carpalla pumping engine. The only one under steam is at Levant plus Parkandillack on air and Greensplat worked by hydraulic ram and East Pool winder by electric motor -- spitfire IP: 81.141.104.149
Peter Burgess Joined: 01/07/2008 Location: Merstham. Or is it Godstone ...... ? View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Goonvean & Rostowrack Posted: 11/09/2008 15:05:11 Reply \| Quote How lucky that Kew Bridge wasn't developed into a Tesco or Homebase store then. -- Hey, who turned out the lights! IP: 81.144.191.248
MineRover Joined: 09/09/2008 Location: Essex View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Goonvean & Rostowrack Posted: 11/09/2008 18:09:51 Reply \| Quote I think the Rostowrack engine was formally displayed at the Holman Museum until it closed. It is now at the King Edward Mine and there are plans to re-erect the engine in the former winding engine house there. All they need no doubt is a hefty input of cash, and unless we can turn beam engine erection into a sport before 2012 I guess a lottery grant is out of the question! There is at least one Cornish engine stored in a dismantled state at the Science Museum, Wroughton Nr Swindon this is the 1863 Harvey’s of Hayle engine from the Carpalla clay works. This engine would fit nicely into the pumping engine house at Levant, in my daydreams if I won the lottery that is where it would end up! -- Alan. MineRover. IP: 194.72.123.7
GolowDydh Joined: 24/03/2008 Location: St Agnes Cornwall View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Goonvean & Rostowrack Posted: 11/09/2008 20:46:29 Reply \| Quote There have been a number of expressions of interest in the goonvean engine in recent years most have been thwawted by cost or lack of a suitable available alternative engine house. In the meantime it has continued to deteriorate in situ. I believe Hayle has some funding and together with the Prince's Trust the ambitious plan is to rebuild the whole (credit crunch permitting) -- The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down IP: 92.9.36.124
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	Goonvean & Rostowrack Posted: 12/09/2008 02:28:46 Reply \| Quote The Harvey's horizontal winder at Robinson's Shaft South Crofty is up for running on steam again from what one of the Heartlands project team told me. I just hope that their finances can match the size of their ideas. It would be a damned shame to let this perfectly good engine sit and fester. whether the 90" pumping engine will be activated I don't know but two steam live steam engines on the one site would be a real crowd puller. -- 'Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear' IP: 86.142.115.22 Edited: 12/09/2008 02:29:44 by Roy Morton
Knocker Joined: 17/06/2008 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Goonvean & Rostowrack Posted: 12/09/2008 07:29:43 Reply \| Quote The heartlands project team cerrtainly don't have a shortage of funds, with a bare minimum of £25 million. Just seen kerrier district council have put in a planning application to restore historic mining machinery on the Wheal Harriet Shaft site. The Goonvean engine may look a bit small in that engine house, but would certainly be interesting to see it. IP: 88.105.249.186

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