Tin Mining Collection

Levant Mine, Cornwall. The Levant Mine operated from the late 18th century until its closure in 1930, mining tin and copper from beneath the sea bed

Sunset, Wheal Coates tin mine, St Agnes, Cornwall, 2009. The clifftop mine of Wheal Coates began to be worked in 1802. The ruined buildings that remain today date from the 1870s

Sir John Morshead, Bart. Lord Warden of the Stanneries, late 18th century, (1934). Portrait of Sir John Morshead, 1st Baronet, who was Lord Warden of the Stannaries in 1798

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

Botallack Mine engine houses, 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

Primitive methods in the worlds richest tin district, Taiping, China, 1936. Artist: Ewing Galloway
Primitive methods in the worlds richest tin district, Taiping, China, 1936. From Peoples of the World in Pictures, edited by Harold Wheeler, published by Odhams Press Ltd (London, 1936)

East Pool Whim Engine House, 19th century
East Pool Whim Engine House, a 30 inch rotative beam engine for a tin mine, 19th century

Shaft Engine House, 1910s
Shaft Engine House, a 90 inch beam pumping engine used in tin mining, 1910s

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