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| steamyjim |
China Clay Works, Small Tin Mines and other industries?Does anyone have any pics they can scan in or whatever of the following industrysChina Clay work's Small tin mins and tin streams Rolling mills Early blast furnaces eg Blist's Hill To be honest any industrys like that that are not in citys etc like cotton mills if you get my jist 
I love drawing things for the railway and aulthough most will not get done i still love planning them 
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| steamyjim |
Any information would be most useful
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| jamespetts |
It might help to know the period that you are after  There are lots of pictures of old Cornish tin mines on the internet - some are most picturesque.
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| steamyjim |
Ermmmm between about 1800 to 1900
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| jamespetts |
Ahh, the 19th century? Well, for the Cornish tin mines, you'll have to look at the pictures of the ruins, and then imagine them un-ruined, with a beam engine's beam sticking out of one side
If you search Google images for Cornish tin mines, you'll find a great deal of useful material Very best wishes...
Edit: Note that the mines usually had at least two beam engines: one larger reciprocating beam engine for pumping the water (the "pumping engine"), and another, smaller rotary beam engine (the "whim engine") for winding up the ore (and sometimes the miners) from the mines. In the late 19th century, some of the new mines had horizontal engines instead of rotary beam engines for winding the whims, but, since the beam engine was invented in Cornwall, they were slow to abandon the beam engine format, and most mines still had the rotary beam engines by the time that they closed in the 20th century. |
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| steamyjim |
Aye, i have a lot of knoweledge of industrial heritage
Just don't have many pics of it in books etc 
Im going to try and get to some more of the industrial sites in Wales and Cornwall as they interest me
To be honest its realy any time before WW1 that im realy looking for
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| steamyjim |
Any pics of industrial canals serving the industrys would be good aswell
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| mc_mc |
Photography itself didn't become widespread till the 1850's so you will have to settle for the artist's impression for stuff before that.
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| steamyjim |
Aye, anything would be useful. Drawings, paintings engravings etc
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