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  1. Lewis Hunton: The Boy Who Read the Rocks

    Stand on the site of the old Loftus Alum Works and you feel rather small. These 213-metre cliffs are not pretty. For centuries, workers burned shale and processed aluminium sulphate here, poisoning the ground so thoroughly that almost nothing grows. The place looks dead. It seems more of the remains of t ...

    fhithich.uk/2026/04/08/lewis-h

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