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Lovely rich colours of the sandstone masonry of the old calcining kilns, just about still standing a century after abandonment.

Lovely rich colours of the sandstone masonry of the old calcining kilns at East Rosedale, miraculously still standing after a century of abandonment. The inner linings of fire bricks look very precarious. An idea of the industrial scene in the 1920s can be seen in this old photo https://goo.gl/images/yALTvwalthough when it was taken the kilns were, in fact, very cold and the hopper mechanism was…

Calcining Kilns, Rosedale East Mines

A bit of a dilemma. Parked at the Lion Inn and went for a circuit of Rosedale with visibility less than the width of the road and the temperature below 10ºc. And so it remained until tea time when the mist finally cleared and the sun came out. But by that time I was comfortably back home.

Rosedale was once alive with the noise, smoke and smells of ironstone mining. In 1853 ironstone was…