THE BASSET MINES AT WHEAL FRANCES CORNWALL - 7/6/2024 - DRONE WITH A VIEW - {4K} DRONE FOOTAGE

South Wheal Frances and Cornish Mining
Between 1700 and 1914, the metal mining industry of Cornwall and west Devon transformed the landscape. It fed the Industrial Revolution in Britain and influenced the development of our modern world.
The Cornwall and west Devon mining landscape consists of ten areas with distinct personalities. South Wheal Frances is in the Camborne and Redruth Mining District of the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site.
World Heritage Site status recognises the importance on a global scale of Cornish mining’s historic landscapes, its outstanding mine buildings and other features. Cornish miners and engineers developed technologies which transformed mining worldwide. Their innovations and skills were vital to the Industrial Revolution and helpedshape our modern industrial society.
The Marriott’s Shaft complex is one of Cornwall’s most substantial, and more unusual, groups of mining remains. It was built for Basset Mines Ltd., formed in 1896, to exploit tin from the Great Flat Lode. They form a striking and remarkably intact survival, some buildings almost assuming cathedral-like proportions, set in open countryside around two
miles south-west of Redruth.
Basset Mines were exceedingly wet mines, pumping an estimated 100 times the weight of ore during wet winters. A big inverted compound (40-inch & 80-inch) pumping engine was erected at Marriott’s Shaft in 1897-1898 to replace an 80-inch Cornish beam pumping engine destroyed by fire, probably arson, in 1895. It was built by Hathorn Davey & Co., at their Sun
Lane Works, Leeds; the partner Henry Davey (1843-1929) was born in Lewtrenchard, Devon, and served his first five years in engineering apprenticeship at the foundry of Nicholls, Matthews & Co., in Tavistock. The winder house contained a cross-compound engine made by Holman Bros. of Camborne. The bi-conical drum gave a maximum winding speed of 2,000 feet per minute in the shaft.
The music is by Scott Buckley and the song is called Skyward, it can be found on his website www.scottbuckley.com
The video was shot with a DJI Mini 4 Pro drone following the sub 250g drone laws

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A Big thank you from Kettering, Northamptonshire, England, UK

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