Pool

Pool is one of several villages that have been consumed by the Camborne and Redruth conurbation. Very much in the heart of Cornwall’s mining area, here can be found Cornish Mines and Engines, where the secrets of the county’s dramatic landscape can be discovered, and where Trevithick’s mighty steam engines are explained. At the Cornwall Industrial Discovery Centre you can take in an audiovisual overview of the history of Cornish mining and the miners, though the two dramatic beam engines take centre stage; at Michell’s Engine House, the winding engine now operated by electricity was originally worked by steam and raised ore and miners from 1,600 feet below surface, Another giant at Taylor’s Shaft, adjacent to the visitor centre, is one of the largest (and the last) Cornish engines to be constructed, originally built in 1892 to pump water form the nearby Carn Brea mines.