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Hingston Down Mine

Hingston Down Mine, located near Gunnislake commenced operation around 1850. The engine house on the site was constructed between 1903 and 1905 to house a rotative beam engine, originally built by the Bedford Foundry at Tavistock, obtained from the recently defunct Devon Great Consols nearby. The engine operated pumps and stamps. The surviving engine house is located at Baily’s shaft and is unusual as it as it had a flat hipped roof as built and looked very similar in appearence to the engine house that was constricted at the nearby Kit Hill Consols. The roof of the engine house remained partially intact into the 1990s. All work at the mine is believed to have come to a halt around the end of the First World War and the site was abandoned by 1926. The engine house was conserved in 2006.
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  • Hingston Down Mine, Cornwall - April 20, 2017

    Hingston Down Mine, Cornwall - April 20, 2017

    Interpretation board at the entrance to the Hingston Down Mine web site.

  • Hingston Down Mine, Cornwall - April 20, 2017

    Hingston Down Mine, Cornwall - April 20, 2017

    Bailey's Shaft Engine House at Hingston Down Mine.

  • Hingston Down Mine, Cornwall - April 20, 2017

    Hingston Down Mine, Cornwall - April 20, 2017

    Bailey's Shaft Engine House at Hingston Down Mine.

  • Hingston Down Mine, Cornwall - April 20, 2017

    Hingston Down Mine, Cornwall - April 20, 2017

    Bailey's Shaft Engine House at Hingston Down Mine.

  • Hingston Down Mine, Cornwall - April 20, 2017

    Hingston Down Mine, Cornwall - April 20, 2017

    Bailey's Shaft Engine House at Hingston Down Mine.

  • Hingston Down Mine, Cornwall - April 20, 2017

    Hingston Down Mine, Cornwall - April 20, 2017

    Bailey's Shaft Engine House at Hingston Down Mine. The engine house was unusual in that it had a flat hipped roof. Some of the roof supports remain in situ. Notice the Tavistock Iron Works reinforcing tie-rod plates similar to those seen at Wheal Grenville. They bear the date 1892 though the engine house bears the date 1903.

  • Hingston Down Mine, Cornwall - April 20, 2017

    Hingston Down Mine, Cornwall - April 20, 2017

    Bailey's Shaft Engine House at Hingston Down Mine. The engine house was unusual in that it had a flat hipped roof. Some of the roof supports remain in situ. Notice the Tavistock Iron Works reinforcing tie-rod plates similar to those seen at Wheal Grenville. They bear the date 1892 though the engine house bears the date 1903.

  • Hingston Down Mine, Cornwall - April 20, 2017

    Hingston Down Mine, Cornwall - April 20, 2017

    Bailey's Shaft Engine House at Hingston Down Mine. The engine house was unusual in that it had a flat hipped roof. Some of the roof supports remain in situ. Notice the Tavistock Iron Works reinforcing tie-rod plates similar to those seen at Wheal Grenville. They bear the date 1892 though the engine house bears the date 1903.

  • Hingston Down Mine, Cornwall - April 20, 2017

    Hingston Down Mine, Cornwall - April 20, 2017

    The concrete loadings outside the Bailey's Shaft Engine House.

  • Hingston Down Mine, Cornwall - April 20, 2017

    Hingston Down Mine, Cornwall - April 20, 2017

    Bailey's Shaft Engine House at Hingston Down Mine.

  • Hingston Down Mine, Cornwall - April 20, 2017

    Hingston Down Mine, Cornwall - April 20, 2017

    Bailey's Shaft Engine House at Hingston Down Mine.

  • Hingston Down Mine, Cornwall - April 20, 2017

    Hingston Down Mine, Cornwall - April 20, 2017

    Bailey's Shaft Engine House at Hingston Down Mine.

  • Hingston Down Mine, Cornwall - April 20, 2017

    Hingston Down Mine, Cornwall - April 20, 2017

    Hingston Down Mine interpretation board beside the mine engine house at Bailey's Shaft.

  • Hingston Down Mine, Cornwall - April 20, 2017

    Hingston Down Mine, Cornwall - April 20, 2017

    Bailey's Shaft Engine House at Hingston Down Mine. the cylinder mounting block.

  • Hingston Down Mine, Cornwall - April 20, 2017

    Hingston Down Mine, Cornwall - April 20, 2017

    Bailey's Shaft Engine House at Hingston Down Mine. Looking down into the cataract pit where the engine valve gear would have been located.

  • Hingston Down Mine, Cornwall - April 20, 2017

    Hingston Down Mine, Cornwall - April 20, 2017

    Bailey's Shaft Engine House at Hingston Down Mine view towards the flywheel loadings.

  • Hingston Down Mine, Cornwall - April 20, 2017

    Hingston Down Mine, Cornwall - April 20, 2017

    Bailey's Shaft Engine House at Hingston Down Mine view towards the flywheel loadings.

  • Hingston Down Mine, Cornwall - April 20, 2017

    Hingston Down Mine, Cornwall - April 20, 2017

    Bailey's Shaft Engine House at Hingston Down Mine window frame detail from inside the engine house.

  • Hingston Down Mine, Cornwall - April 20, 2017

    Hingston Down Mine, Cornwall - April 20, 2017

    Bailey's Shaft Engine House at Hingston Down Mine. Some of the remaining roof beams inside the engine house.

  • Hingston Down Mine, Cornwall - April 20, 2017

    Hingston Down Mine, Cornwall - April 20, 2017

    Bailey's Shaft Engine House at Hingston Down Mine. Some of the remaining roof beams inside the engine house.

  • Hingston Down Mine, Cornwall - April 20, 2017

    Hingston Down Mine, Cornwall - April 20, 2017

    Bailey's Shaft Engine House at Hingston Down Mine view from the front door and down the steps installed during conservation work.

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