North Wheal Basset Lyle's Shaft Pumping Engine House black plaque — Report the wrong picture

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This black commemorative plaque records: North Wheal Basset Lyle's Shaft Pumping Engine House. Built in 1879, this building housed an 80-inch cylinder beam engine for pumping water from Lyle's Shaft and via a flat rod system to Grace's Shaft located 150 metres to the west. Mineral Tramways. Recorded plaque organisation: Mineral Tramways Project.

North Wheal Basset Lyle's Shaft Pumping Engine House, built in 1879, is significant for its role in Cornish mining history, housing advanced pumping technology essential for extracting water from deep mines and facilitating mineral extraction during the height of Cornwall’s mining industry.

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