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English: The Pumping Engine House at South Wheal Francis. This building housed the engine used to pump water out of the mine in the final phase of working this mine between 1895 and 1918. It is a very different construction to the older Cornish engine houses and contained a compound pumping engine with both 40 inch and 80 inch cylinders. The grating in front of the building covers Marriott's shaft, which has an enormous 16 feet diameter. When the mine was in operation this view would have been obscured by the mine headgear over the shaft, a huge metal A frame construction half as high again as this building. An elevated railway at about the same height as this building took ore raised from the mine away to the left to be tipped in the ore bin.
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Author Tony Atkin
Camera location50° 12′ 32.1″ N, 5° 15′ 06″ W  Heading=337° Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo
Object location50° 12′ 32.1″ N, 5° 15′ 06″ W  Heading=337° Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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