1820 - Levant Mining Company is formed. 1836 - Some 320 men, 44 women and 186 children are by this stage employed at the mine. 1857 - The man engine, a mechanism of ladders and platforms to help ...

The National Trust has defended an Easter children's event at a mine in Cornwall where 31 men died nearly 100 years ago. A relative of a miner who died when a man engine transporter broke at Wheal ...

The graves of 15 men have been restored as part of the centenary commemorations of a Cornish mining disaster. On 20 October 1919, a wooden transportation system called a "Man Engine" collapsed ...

Part of the first series of the BBC hit was filmed at Levant Mine and annual visitor numbers have soared by 50 per cent to 100,000 since it was first broadcast in 2015 Comments News Tom Bevan 17: ...

IT is with pleasure we learn that the Cornish Engines Preservation Committee has been successful in acquiring the early winding engine at Levant Mine in Cornwall, and in leasing for a small ...

1820 - Levant Mining Company is formed. 1836 - Some 320 men, 44 women and 186 children are by this stage employed at the mine. 1857 - The man engine, a mechanism of ladders and platforms to help ...