Random Mine of the Day : Holmbush Mine / Hitchen's Shaft Complex / Little Hurtdown

Today, I have been mostly staring blankly into space in a fog of cold-induced blurgyness.  I did not go to Holmbush mine, because the tracks around there get awfully muddy when it rains this much, and also so as to walk dogs somewhere where I could basically tip them out into a fenced area in order to not have to engage brain or travel at more than half a mile an hour.

But if I'd walked a bit further around the hill, I would have seen this:

The Cornwall Heritage Environment Record doesn't have much on Holmbush mine, but fortunately because the enginehouse is a listed building since it is ' one of very few 19th century engine houses to have retained a considerable part of its original roof structure into the 21st century', Historic England has lots about it.

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