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Levant

Reference: CO136
Location: Cornwall
Gallery: Cornwall,

Copper and tin have been mined here since 1820. By 1836 over 500 people including 186 children were employed on the site. Within the workings the infamous ‘man engine’ was a device of reciprocating ladders and stationary platforms and carried men many fathoms up and down the mine. In 1919 the man engine suffered a disastrous failure when a link between the rod and the engine snapped, killing 31 men. Levant experienced a steady decline thereafter and in 1930 the mine closed.