A Boxing Day flight around the area of Pendeen and the Geevor Tin Mine, Levant Tin Mine and Pendeen Lighthouse and Headland.
Geevor Tin Mine formerly North Levant Mine is a tin mine in the far west of Cornwall, England, between the villages of Pendeen and Trewellard and is one of the largest surviving mining sites in Britain, located on the dramatic Atlantic Coast of Cornwall near Pendeen. Visitors can experience an underground tour of the 18th-century tunnels, explore the disused mine buildings, and learn what it was like to live and work as a Cornish miner.
Levant Mine and Beam Engine is a National Trust property at Trewellard, Pendeen, near St Just, Cornwall, England, UK. Its main attraction is that it has the world's only Cornish beam engine still operated by steam on its original site and originally mined copper, but in 1835 a large tin deposit was discovered, and the mine expanded to include both substances. Between 1820 and 1930 the mine was highly successful in both copper and tin production, extracting over 130,000 tons of copper ore during that span.
Pendeen Lighthouse was built by Trinity House in 1900 to guide vessels around the inhospitable shoreline from Pendeen to Gurnards Head has been guiding ships through this area for over a hundred years, its fairly squat white tower measuring 17 metres. Built at the turn of the 19th century, much of the rocky outcrop of the headland had to be removed to accommodate the lighthouse, fog horn and keepers’ cottages. Originally oil fuelled, the lamp became electric in the 1920s and the whole affair was made automatic in 1995. The initial oil lamp can still be seen in one of the many maritime displays in the Trinity House National Lighthouse Centre in Penzance.