#ironstonemining — Public Fediverse posts
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Echoes in the Vale: The Ghostly Rise and Fall of Leven Vale Cottages
By the mid-1850s, “Ironstone Fever” had Cleveland in its grip. The success at Eston tempted the Trustees of the young Robert Bell Turton to open up the Kildale Estate through an 1855 Act of Parliament. Investors fell for the “rabbit ...
#Kildale #NorthYorkMoors #RiverLeven #19thcentury #history #IronstoneMining
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Echoes in the Vale: The Ghostly Rise and Fall of Leven Vale Cottages
By the mid-1850s, “Ironstone Fever” had Cleveland in its grip. The success at Eston tempted the Trustees of the young Robert Bell Turton to open up the Kildale Estate through an 1855 Act of Parliament. Investors fell for the “rabbit ...
#Kildale #NorthYorkMoors #RiverLeven #19thcentury #history #IronstoneMining
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Echoes in the Vale: The Ghostly Rise and Fall of Leven Vale Cottages
By the mid-1850s, “Ironstone Fever” had Cleveland in its grip. The success at Eston tempted the Trustees of the young Robert Bell Turton to open up the Kildale Estate through an 1855 Act of Parliament. Investors fell for the “rabbit ...
#Kildale #NorthYorkMoors #RiverLeven #19thcentury #history #IronstoneMining
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Echoes in the Vale: The Ghostly Rise and Fall of Leven Vale Cottages
By the mid-1850s, “Ironstone Fever” had Cleveland in its grip. The success at Eston tempted the Trustees of the young Robert Bell Turton to open up the Kildale Estate through an 1855 Act of Parliament. Investors fell for the “rabbit ...
#Kildale #NorthYorkMoors #RiverLeven #19thcentury #history #IronstoneMining
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Echoes in the Vale: The Ghostly Rise and Fall of Leven Vale Cottages
By the mid-1850s, “Ironstone Fever” had Cleveland in its grip. The success at Eston tempted the Trustees of the young Robert Bell Turton to open up the Kildale Estate through an 1855 Act of Parliament. Investors fell for the “rabbit ...
#Kildale #NorthYorkMoors #RiverLeven #19thcentury #history #IronstoneMining
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The Last Traces of the Belmont Ironstone Mine
Green “Yorkshire” fields in early spring, and nothing here looks remotely industrial. Yet the three red-brick Edwardian cottages sitting neatly in the middle distance were built for the men who ran Belmont Ironstone Mine, and the large brick building in the distance was once the stables for the horses ...
https://www.fhithich.uk/2026/03/28/the-last-traces-of-the-belmont-ironstone-mine/
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Cold Moor: A Close Brush with Industry
Cold Moor today looks like the sort of place that looks as though history slipped it by. Green, quiet, and peaceful. You would never guess how close it came to becoming a roaring industrial scar.
In 1911 the calm nearly ended. Plans were laid to turn this part of Lord Feversham’s vast es ...http://www.fhithich.uk/2026/02/27/cold-moor-a-close-brush-with-industry/
#ClevelandHills #ColdMoor #NorthYorkMoors #20thCentury #history #IronstoneMining
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Nab Gill: The Lost Industry of Eskdale
Cross the little packhorse bridge by Eskdale Mill in Boot, glance left, and you will see stonework that have long been forgotten. The remains stand upon a loading platform, above the overgrown site of Boot railway station. These are the offices and works of Nab Gill Ironstone Mine, named after the great cleft high on th ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/09/11/nab-gill-the-lost-industry-of-eskdale/
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Clearing the Past: The Lost Drumhouse of Newton Wood
A morning with the National Trust, cutting back the summer growth from around the brick and stone remains known as the Kip, at the Cliff Rigg end of Newton Wood.
The Kip is the remains of the head of a narrow-gauge tramway incline. Ore ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/08/01/clearing-the-past-the-lost-drumhouse-of-newton-wood/
#CliffRigg #NewtonWood #NorthYorkMoors #history #IndustrialArchaeology #IronstoneMining #NationalTrust
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The Slow Decay of Belmont Mine
It is disheartening to see the old mine buildings at Belmont Ironstone Mine partially collapsed. Built around 1909, they may not be the grandest examples of industrial architecture, but they are likely the most intact surface remains of any ironstone mine in the Cleveland area. Remarkably, some sections are still used as stables. I ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/06/30/the-slow-decay-of-belmont-mine/
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4th February, 1921: Redundancies at Roseberry Ironstone Mine
His day began long before any sensible person would even consider waking. At 4:30 in the morning, he and his wife dragged themselves from their bed, greeted not by comfort but by the biting cold. The morning’s first ordeal was the outhouse—an unenviable journey in deep winter, where snow, ice, and the ever-present r ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=37378
#Aireyholme #NorthYorkMoors #RoseberryTopping #history #IronstoneMining
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Bold Venture Gill
The public footpaths through Highcliffe Farm have been diverted. Fascinating. I am sure there is an entirely compelling reason for depriving the public of paths they have used for decades. Perhaps the landowner fancied some peace and quiet, or maybe there was a pressing need to shift things about for reasons too profound for us mere mortals to understand.
The new diversi ...
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The Loftus Mine Rescue of 1935 and the Bravery of George Heslop
On this day, 17th December, in 1935, a roof collapse at Loftus Ironstone mine trapped two miners, John Cooper Henry and Henry Murrell, under a heap of rock.
Enter George Heslop, the mine’s Agent and Manager, who arrived at 9 a.m. to find that the roof was still collapsing and other miners were understandably reluctant to risk th ...
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Where Birch Meets Rust: A Forgotten Landmark
Descending from Highcliff Nab to Guisborough, I felt a sudden urge to revisit a landmark I often passed on my runs around these woods many years ago. This viewpoint, on top of a spoil heap from the Belmont Ironstone Mine, was mercifully spared the blight of commercial conifers—perhaps because even saplings had standards and found the s ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=36958
#Guisborough #NorthYorkMoors #20thCentury #history #IronstoneMining
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The Miner’s Path: From Ironstone to Ypres
The constant rain has transformed Airyholme Lane into a stream, though it mercifully spills into the field before it reaches the farmyard. I cannot help but wonder what the weather was like on this day in 1917. The miners from Roseberry Ironstone Mine would have trudged along this track to and from their shifts. Did they feel fortunate, knowing th ...
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Roseberry Ironstone Mine — A Miner’s Day Begins
A significant anniversary in the history of Roseberry Ironstone Mine. It was on this day in 1921 that the men at the mine received notice to cease work with the mine due to be made idle at the end of the period of notice. In fact, output fell gradually until, in 1924, it stopped completely and a 'skeleton' maintenance employed until ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=34488
#Aireyholme #NorthYorkMoors #RoseberryTopping #IronstoneMining
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Ayton Banks Ironstone Mine — its legacy
Playing with my new tripod, a Christmas goodie. I do like the motion blur effect of long exposures.
The water is draining from the Ayton Banks ironstone mine, the stone of which turned out to be poor-quality, leading to the mine's brief existence. It had opened in the first decade of the 20th-century but closed during the depre ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=34177
#AytonBanks #GreatAyton #Gribdale #NorthYorkMoors #ecology #IronstoneMining
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Cutting the First Sod on the Codhill Branch on the Gisbro’ and Middlesbro’ Railway
Cutting the First Sod on the Codhill Branch on the Gisbro' and Middlesbro' Railway. — It having been generally circulated throughout the town of Gisbro' and neighbourhood that the first sod on the Codhill branch of the Middlesbro' and Gisbro' railway for the working of ironstone would be removed on Mond ...
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A familiar scene to many …
... least not Cleveland Way walkers heading south to Helmsley. Walkers going clockwise will be trudging up this bank to Coate moor and Capt. Cook's Monument.
Bankside Farm itself probably dates from the 18th-century, while the distant building to the right is the former manager’s house and workshop for the Coate Moor Iron Company. The drift entrance ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=31110
#Kildale #NorthYorkMoors #ClevelandWay #ironstone #ironstonemining