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144-inch-diameter cylinder, powering eight beams, used to drain Haarlemmermeer in the Netherlands Cruquius station
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 and the foreman Billy Gilbert.png "Francis Harvey, Jebus Bickle (an important figure at Harvey's who came from a large family of engineers) and the foreman Billy Gilbert")
Harvey & Co. of Hayle was responsible for producing the world's largest ever beam engine. With a 144-inch- diameter cylinder, powering eight beams, it was used to drain the Haarlemmermeer in the Netherlands and has been preserved at the Museum De Cruquius (above). The three men shown stood with a miscast of the gigantic cylinder are Francis Harvey, Jebus Bickle (an important figure at Harvey's who came from a large family of engineers) and the foreman Billy Gilbert. read more »
190130 | Cornwall Council admits defeat and calls for help in bid to solve the Hayle underground water mystery
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Cornwall Council admits defeat and calls for help in bid to solve the Hayle underground water mystery
1822 | The people at Hayle called out the Yeoman Cavalry for trading in copper-ore at 4s. per ton
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1822
May 14. — The Captains of the colliers trading to this port, Hayle and Portreath, formed a combination not to carry copper-ore for less than 5s. per ton, or to sell coals from Wales for less than 50s. per way (16s. 8d. per ton). May 20. — The sailors at Hayle dismantled Captain Sargeant's vessel for trading in copper-ore at 4s. per ton, on which account the people at Hayle called out the Yeoman Cavalry.
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1824 November 10 | Some houses on the beach were unroofed, windows broken, and cellar-doors forced open by the violence of the w
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1824 November 10 -- Wind N.E., a very heavy gale, with a tremendous sea ; damage to shipping trivial, but some houses on the beach were unroofed, windows broken, and cellar-doors forced open by the violence of the waves. The sea broke at intervals into the churchyard, the graves were levelled, and two head-stones washed down.
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1826 | The schooner Polmanter began to load alongside St. Ives Quay the first cargo of copper-ore ever shipped from this port
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1826
April 12. — The L Ocean ran on shore on the Eastern Spits, and filled with water; crew saved. The pilot, Richard Grenfell, received an injury. April 13. — The L! Ocean discharged 100 tons logwood into Hayle barges. Her repairs at St. Ives, previous to her loss, cost £1,249 17s. 6d. The wreck has been sold for £205.
May 12 --The schooner Polmanter began to load alongside St. Ives Quay the first cargo of copper-ore ever shipped from this port direct from a mine. This cargo is from Wheal Trenwith.
May 27. — Mackerel selling 3d. each ; butter in Pen- zance market io^d, and beef 7d. per pound ; barley 16s., wheat 27s., potatoes us. per bushel.
1824 | It is related that very great alarm was occasioned at St. Ives on the first appearance of a steamer on the coast
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October 15, 1824. — Arrived a steam vessel, which went for Hayle.*
* It is related that very great alarm was occasioned at St. Ives on
the first appearance of a steamer on the coast. It was thought to
be a vessel on fire, and boats were manned to go out to her
assistance ; but on her coming nearer she was discovered to be a
steam vessel, which went into Hayle.
* It is related that very great alarm was occasioned at St. Ives on
the first appearance of a steamer on the coast. It was thought to
be a vessel on fire, and boats were manned to go out to her
assistance ; but on her coming nearer she was discovered to be a
steam vessel, which went into Hayle.
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Velling-Varine, Sunday 8 August 1743 | Charles Wesley
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The First Wesley “Meeting House” at Copperhouse, Hayle | August 1785 | Hayle Pump 2019
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1856 | Notice to quit, Angarrack Smelting House, Phillack
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