New Consols

 

Wheal Martha engine house
Photo: Trevithick-Holman Archive

Wheal Martha engine house.  Phillip's Shaft was originally the site of a Sim's compound engine which was replaced by a 50-inch conventional engine which was in turn replaced by an 80-inch engine when the mine was reworked as New Consols.  To fit the new engine the house had to be 'stretched' by adding a new bob wall, strengthened by buttresses.