A massive mechanical miner will make his way through the former mining districts of west Cornwall this week as he heads for Geevor and the end of his two week journey.

Standing over 10 metres tall when fully upright, the Man Engine is Britain's largest ever mechanical puppet, created to commemorate the tinth -or tenth - anniversary of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape being added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites.

Having steamed and stomped his way from Tavistock, he will transform in Camborne at 11 am on Wednesday, before passing King Edward Mine at 3pm and Godolphin House at 6pm, and in Thursday will transform at Foundry Square in Hayle at 6pm.

On Friday he will be on full display at Penzance at 5pm, and on Saturday he will transform at St Just at 11 am, head through Botallack in procession at 1pm, and be at Geevor for his big finale at 4pm.

The Man Engine sports a number of motifs of Cornish mining, with a giant beam engine as a rocking neck, mining head gear, sheave wheels as shoulders, and hands that reflect massive 20th century excavators.

He is carried about by a puppeteer made out of a wheel loader, with a crew of 'miners' and 'bal-maidens' animating him during each transformation.