Exploring Botallack | Crowns Engine Houses | Levant Mine Fail | McFaddens Pasty Review!
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- Join us as we explore the beautiful and iconic engine houses of Botallack Mine!
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Being a floating rock in space....a lot of those buildings were probably stores, workshops and offices I bet.
Can't believe you haven't a McFaddans before. Great pasty. They used to have a shop at the bottom of Causwayhead.
Great vlog.
Did they? I didn’t know that. Yep, until this video I was a McFaddens virgin!
What a beautiful day! Those pasties look delicious. 😮🎉😊
They were good!
@@theBriceSide Can you give them a score out of ten please?...on the same scale as your pasty-off videos if at all possible please. Cheers 'n' gone.
@@mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm420I’d say a 7. 👍🏻
Hi there! Fantastic video of one of my favourite places!. That circular building at 11+ minutes in is one of Levant Mine's explosives store (there's another one not too far away), where they'd have stored the dynamite & gunpowder - far enough away from the main mine buildings that it wouldn't damage them if the whole lot exploded!
The oval stone structure with the grille on top at 15 mins is one of the shafts of Wheal Cock, a mine in between Botallack and Levant - there's another grille-covered shaft down below on the seaward side, with an extremely impressive wall stopping it falling down into the sea!
Yes, as another commentor says, the labyrinth you were walking round was the arsenic labyrinth - basically a huge flue, which led up from the building with the complex brickwork, the calciner, where the ore was roasted. The fumes passed up the flue, round the zig-zag labyrinth, over the arch, back along the labyrinth on the other side, then to the tall chimney. They roasted the ore to remove the arsenic, which was an unwanted contaminant in the ore, but they collected the arsenic salts too, as it was a useful by-product. I don't think it was scraped off by the children, I think the regular miners did it. It was known to be highly poisonous - their PPE was a handkerchief over the mouth and nose! I don't think they had a very long life expectancy!
The Crowns engine house you walked down to - the upper one - was the one that hauled the ore up from the mine. There was a wooden superstructure built between the shaft - diagonally down from where the path was roped off - to the mouth of the shaft in the rocks below, which held rails carrying the skips that were hauled up out of the mine.
There is a rather dodgy and dangerous way down to the lower engine house, which pumped water out of the mine, but it's not really worth going down there anyway.
Wow! Great info. Thank you. 👍🏻
Good afternoon Mr Briceside. I told you macfaddens were good pasties mate. 😊I love that area around the cliffs, I was brought up on the outskirts of st just so it’s my old stapping ground. 😊
It was a good one for sure. 👍🏻
@@theBriceSide glad you enjoyed it,,
The labyrinth was for collecting arsenic.The "waste" from the mine would have been heated,&the arsenic deposited on the walls,&I think that the children were given the job of scraping it off.
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We really wanted to explore the cave at the end of the video last time we were there but it was covered with slugs of all things 😮
Slugs!! 😂😂