5934 x 3925 px | 50,2 x 33,2 cm | 19,8 x 13,1 inches | 300dpi
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"Just before the fence begins there are a small concrete reservoir and a concrete chimney with a long brick-lined flue leading up to it from the foundations of a boiler house, and below, a shaft covered by an enormous concrete cap crowned with a 'bat castle'. Around the shaft are somewhat older concrete structures, some of them the bases for horizontal pumping and winding engines, others the remains of settling tanks. The truncated rectangular wall near the shaft is what survives of the count house. The shaft is called Vivian's (or Ladder) Shaft and belonged to an old mine called Wheal Tye. It was one of many small mines which became part of West Wheal Towan, and this may well be the shaft 'fitted with ladders' that Ernest Landry used to take his visitors down. The shaft was reopened in 1927; as Dines puts it, "no development ensued, " but the stack and other ruins may date from then, or from the period 1920-5 when an enterprise named Sally Bottoms was reworking sections of several old mines in this area". (An excerpt from Landfall Walks Books No.16 - Bob Acton)
