The Cornish Engine

This opens with waves crashing against the cliffs as if it were straight out of a Daphne du Maurier novel as we pan to ruined stannaries and scarred terrain. All we really need now is Leslie Banks and Charles Laughton. Sadly, no - not quite. Instead we are taken on a tour of the really quite precarious mines of Cornwall that are long since abandoned. There are still one or two pumping engines work...