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Wheal Jenkin & Marke Valley Consols

Established (as a tin mining site worked by shallow shafts and an adit) when it was taken up in 1824, and worked by the Cornwall Great United Mining Association (London) between 1836-7.

A steam engine was erected at Wheal Jenkin in October 1836 to work 40 head of stamps, and 21 heads of new water-stamps were also under construction to handle the ore from the Cornwall Great United Mines.

In the 1870s Wheal Jenkin it was acquired by the Marke Valley adventurers. In 1881, the mine was re-opened as part of Marke Valley Consols Mines Ltd. Working for tin, the former Whim shaft was re-opened as Bellingham's shaft, and, in 1886, the Holman's shaft (South Caradon) 70" engine was re-erected in a new engine house.

The mine closed in 1890 and there are no records of any attempt to re-prospect the lodes during the early years of the 20th Century.
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  • Wheal Jenkin & Marke Valley Consols, Cornwall - September 07, 2020

    Wheal Jenkin & Marke Valley Consols, Cornwall - September 07, 2020

    Bellingham's 70inch pumping engine house on the left and the stamps engine house on the right viewed from the track bed of the Liskeard and Caradon Railway which ran through the mine site.

  • Wheal Jenkin & Marke Valley Consols, Cornwall - September 07, 2020

    Wheal Jenkin & Marke Valley Consols, Cornwall - September 07, 2020

    The stamps engine house which accommodated at 36 inch engine.

  • Wheal Jenkin & Marke Valley Consols, Cornwall - September 07, 2020

    Wheal Jenkin & Marke Valley Consols, Cornwall - September 07, 2020

    The stamps engine house which accommodated at 36 inch engine.

  • Wheal Jenkin & Marke Valley Consols, Cornwall - September 07, 2020

    Wheal Jenkin & Marke Valley Consols, Cornwall - September 07, 2020

    The stamps engine house which accommodated at 36 inch engine.

  • Wheal Jenkin & Marke Valley Consols, Cornwall - September 07, 2020

    Wheal Jenkin & Marke Valley Consols, Cornwall - September 07, 2020

    The 70 inch pumping engine house at Bellingham's Shaft was completed in 1886. The remains of the boiler house can be seen alongside

  • Wheal Jenkin & Marke Valley Consols, Cornwall - September 07, 2020

    Wheal Jenkin & Marke Valley Consols, Cornwall - September 07, 2020

    The 70 inch pumping engine house at Bellingham's Shaft was completed in 1886. The remains of the boiler house can be seen alongside

  • Wheal Jenkin & Marke Valley Consols, Cornwall - September 07, 2020

    Wheal Jenkin & Marke Valley Consols, Cornwall - September 07, 2020

    The 70 inch pumping engine house at Bellingham's Shaft was completed in 1886. The remains of the boiler house can be seen alongside

  • Wheal Jenkin & Marke Valley Consols, Cornwall - September 07, 2020

    Wheal Jenkin & Marke Valley Consols, Cornwall - September 07, 2020

    The 70 inch pumping engine house at Bellingham's Shaft was completed in 1886. The remains of the boiler house can be seen alongside

  • Wheal Jenkin & Marke Valley Consols, Cornwall - April 19, 2017

    Wheal Jenkin & Marke Valley Consols, Cornwall - April 19, 2017

    General view of Wheal Jenkin through the power and telephone lines outside of Minions village.

  • Wheal Jenkin & Marke Valley Consols, Cornwall - April 19, 2017

    Wheal Jenkin & Marke Valley Consols, Cornwall - April 19, 2017

    General view of Wheal Jenkin through the power and telephone lines outside of Minions village.

  • Wheal Jenkin & Marke Valley Consols, Cornwall - April 19, 2017

    Wheal Jenkin & Marke Valley Consols, Cornwall - April 19, 2017

    Window detail of the stamps engine house which accommodated a 36 inch engine.

  • Wheal Jenkin & Marke Valley Consols, Cornwall - April 19, 2017

    Wheal Jenkin & Marke Valley Consols, Cornwall - April 19, 2017

    The 36 inch Stamps Engine House showing the the flywheel slot. The Flywheel was around 29ft in diameter, This stamps engine pumped from Bellingham's Shaft by flat rods until the 70 inch pumping engine was installed in 1886. After this 12 extra head of stamps was added to the stamps battery.

  • Wheal Jenkin & Marke Valley Consols, Cornwall - April 19, 2017

    Wheal Jenkin & Marke Valley Consols, Cornwall - April 19, 2017

    The stamps engine house which accommodated at 36 inch engine.

  • Wheal Jenkin & Marke Valley Consols, Cornwall - April 19, 2017

    Wheal Jenkin & Marke Valley Consols, Cornwall - April 19, 2017

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  • Wheal Jenkin & Marke Valley Consols, Cornwall - April 19, 2017

    Wheal Jenkin & Marke Valley Consols, Cornwall - April 19, 2017

    The stamps engine house which accommodated at 36 inch engine.

  • Wheal Jenkin & Marke Valley Consols, Cornwall - April 19, 2017

    Wheal Jenkin & Marke Valley Consols, Cornwall - April 19, 2017

    The stamps engine house which accommodated at 36 inch engine.

  • Wheal Jenkin & Marke Valley Consols, Cornwall - April 19, 2017

    Wheal Jenkin & Marke Valley Consols, Cornwall - April 19, 2017

    The stamps engine house which accommodated at 36 inch engine.

  • Wheal Jenkin & Marke Valley Consols, Cornwall - April 19, 2017

    Wheal Jenkin & Marke Valley Consols, Cornwall - April 19, 2017

    The stamps engine house which accommodated at 36 inch engine.

  • Wheal Jenkin & Marke Valley Consols, Cornwall - April 19, 2017

    Wheal Jenkin & Marke Valley Consols, Cornwall - April 19, 2017

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  • Wheal Jenkin & Marke Valley Consols, Cornwall - April 19, 2017

    Wheal Jenkin & Marke Valley Consols, Cornwall - April 19, 2017

    The stamps engine house which accommodated at 36 inch engine. Phoenix United Mine Prince of Wales engine house can be seen in the distance.

  • Wheal Jenkin & Marke Valley Consols, Cornwall - April 19, 2017

    Wheal Jenkin & Marke Valley Consols, Cornwall - April 19, 2017

    The stamps engine house which accommodated at 36 inch engine.

  • Wheal Jenkin & Marke Valley Consols, Cornwall - April 19, 2017

    Wheal Jenkin & Marke Valley Consols, Cornwall - April 19, 2017

    Stamps engine house with the Prince of Wales Shaft Engine House at Phoenix United Mine visible in the back ground.

  • Wheal Jenkin & Marke Valley Consols, Cornwall - April 19, 2017

    Wheal Jenkin & Marke Valley Consols, Cornwall - April 19, 2017

    Second hand 16in cast iron Rising Main used as a passage under the Liskeard and Caradon Railway track bed for a flatrod drive from the Stamps Engine to pump from Bellinghams Shaft in use between 1882-1886.

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