#tin mine

[weepingwidar]

Edward Burra (British, 1905-1976) - Cornish Landscape with Figures and Tin Mine (1975)

[s38s73r]

Afternoon sunshine, Geevor tin mine, Pendeen, Cornwall /Kernow

[properjobproductions]

Ruins of the Bellingham's 70" Engine House at the Wheal Jenkin mine, just outside Minions in Cornwall.

Wheal Jenkin mine was first opened in 1836 by the Cornwall Great United Mining Association, it was sold in 1872 to the Marke Valley Mine who expanded the site. In 1886 a new engine house was built to house the 70" pumping engine at the Bellingham mine shaft. In 1890 the entire Wheal Jenkin mine was closed.

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[bluecote]

Church Kneeler,

St Uny Church, Lelant, Cornwall.

June 23

[btaut]

St. Agnes, April 2023

[ilovekernow]

Shaft

[rherlotshadow]

Ding Dong Mine. Remains of an ancient tin mine in Cornwall.

[steam-and-stardust]

KNOCKER

The Cornish Knocker inhabits tin mines and other tunnels underground. Sometimes a human miner can find a rich vein of ore by following the mysterious knocking sound, which is of course these folk doing their own mining! Knockers are often happy to share the ore if human miners extract it and give the faerie a cut.

My interpretation wears canary wings on his hat to warn him of unsafe levels of gas underground, in an echo of the human tradition to use the birds as warnings. If the canary died, it was time to leave the mine sharpish!