Title

Engine house, West Wheal Owles Mine, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, 1967-1970

Caption

Engine house, West Wheal Owles Mine, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall, 1967-1970. The engine house viewed from the south-east. Wheal Owles was used as the setting for the Poldark family mines of Wheal Leisure in the BBC television series (2015 onwards).

Date

1967

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England Archive

Reference

HRM19B42_223

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

64,3Mb (4,0Mb) / 15,7in x 15,9in / 4711 x 4767 (300dpi)

Keywords

ocean sea coast building buildings England coastal industry country chimneys steam television British geography English color industrial chimney ruins cliff cliffs ruin Cornwall mining Atlantic Ocean location century Britain steam power TV abandoned derelict concept ruined seventies disused redundant Sixties Colour telly 1970s 1960s 20th century Botallack English Heritage tin mine Cornish engine house geographical feature television programme TGN tin mining clifftop photograph landscape Eileen Deste Deste Eileen Deste Eilenn spoil heap Poldark West Wheal Owles Mine photograph landscape