Parts might now be an industrial museum, but not a museum where everything can be predicted. At Pool near Camborne there are two working engines which can be visited. Most mine workings are left to fall into disrepair. Here, at Blue Hills near St. Agnes, the buildings reach almost to the water's edge. This also means they take a battering in every storm.
Nothing much is left but for a few walls overlooking the ocean.
The same could be said for the Cornish tin industry. Just a few years back there were working mines - South Crofty, Pendarves, Wheal Jane, Geevor. Now all have closed.