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The 14-Year-Old Standing Stones
My feelings about Lord Stones Country Park sit somewhere between fondness and grudge. Our wedding guests gathered there for a run — a bottle of Champagne subtly secreted in the heather — before a cèilidh in the evening, so it has earned a permanent soft spot. During the 2001 Foot and Mouth outbreak, when most of Cleveland was f ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2026/07/10/the-14-year-old-standing-stones/
Pirates, Sugar and Stone: The Carlton Bank Alum Works
Some industrial stories begin with a balance sheet. This one begins with a privateer’s cannon.
The alum works at Carlton Bank, gorged out of the Cleveland Hills, has a history that stretches from the Caribbean to the Cleveland coast. It is, when you look closely, a rather splendid ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2026/03/17/pirates-sugar-and-stone-the-carlton-bank-alum-works/
Not Guilty: The Carlton Bank Case, 1972
Carlton Bank. Even on a dreich day there was a surprising number of folk around. Yet, in May 1972, it was the scene of one of the more extraordinary legal cases the North Riding has ever seen.
A potato merchant named Kenneth Saddington drove five miles up to these moors one Saturday night with a body in his car. H ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2026/03/09/not-guilty-the-carlton-bank-case-1972/
From Stone Ruck to the the Lure of Fascism
A tumulus mapped as Stone Ruck with a view up to Brown Hill, the high point of Carlton Bank. A single boulder, pressed into service as a boundary marker, denotes the Feversham estate from that of the Marquess of Ailesbury. Curiously, the boundary is not drawn at the top of the tumulus but shy of it, as t ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/09/07/from-stone-ruck-to-the-the-lure-of-fascism/
The Alum Industry of Carlton Bank
It is difficult to imagine that 250 years ago this tranquil scene was a hub of intense industrial activity. For over a century, Jurassic shales were quarried here to produce alum crystals, which were essential as a mordant in dyeing textiles and as a curing agent in tanning.
A comment on a previous post about how the alum was transported and its destination promp ...