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The Man Engine

In July 2006, the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape was
added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites. Last year, in celebration of
the 10th anniversary, the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site Partnership
commissioned an exciting memorial to the historic engineering creativity of the
region with a 12 metre high mechanical giant called “the Man Engine”.
Part man, part machine, the towering metal ‘Man Engine’ designed by
Will Coleman and his team at Golden Tree Productions, Cornwall, had a real fire
in its belly, a beating beam-engine in its heart and the heritage of the entire
British Industrial Revolution in…