Higher Bal Mine engine house, Cornwall

Higher Bal Mine engine house, Cornwall

1-271-351 - Peter Thompson/Heritage Images

Higher Bal Mine engine house, Cornwall. In the Victorian heyday of the Cornish tin mining industry there were over 600 of these engine houses containing steam engines to pump water out of the mines and power winding gear in the mineshafts.


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Creator
  1. Peter Thompson, attributed to: British: Photographer

Medium
  1. Photograph

Geographic Hierarchy

World Europe United Kingdom England Cornwall

  1. 50 25 00 N , 004 45 00 W

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Science & Nature Technology & Innovation

Locations & Buildings Other

Trade & Industry Other

Science & Nature Technology & Innovation Industrial Machinery

Places Europe England Cornwall


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Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 3412x5118
File Size : 51,161kb


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  1. HIGHER~1.tif
  1. 0470006965
  1. 1-271-351
  1. 1271351
  1. HIGHER~1

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