It be time for some hard rock mining me 'ansome

The tunnel from the miner's dry to the man engine shaft at Levant.The man engine (a lift arrangement powered by a beam engine) here collapsed one October day in 1919 leaving 31 dead and more injured.This was Cornwall's 2nd worst mining disaster. The worst was at East Wheal Rose further up country where 38 or 39 were killed in July 1846 where a cloudburst caused major flooding from above. The mine at Levant had workings stretching a long way under the sea, miners working the upper levels could hear during rough weather, boulders being swept backwards and forwards across the sea bed above their heads.

Trewellard Cornwall

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