Echo Tunnel – Liverton Mines, Kilton Viaduct

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Located where Kilton Beck passes under a viaduct that was buried in 1913.

Viaduct
To the north you need to climb down a steep shale bank that looks like its regularly used by scramblers, the water at that end is almost knee deep, so we couldn’t attack it from that side and had to go all the way back up.

Echo Tunnel North Entrance

To the south another steep climb passing a large heap of burnt out cars, but the beck is much shallower and access is easier. Here’s an image from inside with a normal flash, and a colourful HDR image built up from several shots.
Echo Tunnel  Echo Tunnel HDR Shot

Then it was time for some fun

Echo Tunnel Light Painting Echo Tunnel Light Painting Echo Tunnel Light Painting

If anyone fancies calling Most Haunted looks like theres a ghost too :-)

Echo Tunnel Light Painting Ghost

Many thanks to Sayzey for putting me on to this one, and giving me the idea to try HDR photography. 

Sparrow Lane Bridge, Guisborough

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Sparrow Lane followed the line of what is now Pytchley Road, with the bridge passing under the dismanted Guisborough and Brotton railway line.

The North-West edge of the bridge appears to be present in the undergrowth, with an arch visible just under ground, the top row of stone poke out just below the level of the adjacent path.

Buiried Sparrow Lane Bridge, Guisborough Buiried Sparrow Lane Bridge, Guisborough

More stonework is visible at the top of steps on the south side, although the main area on the south is currently inaccessible due to thick undergrowth.

Buiried Sparrow Lane Bridge, Guisborough

I would guess the bridge was filled-in when estate to the south was built, although i have no pictures or written proof as yet.

Hunters Scar Jet Mine

I’m currently unable to find much information on the site, it was a jet mine at some point, later converted for water storage.

Possibly for the nearby Gribdale Terrace when the Ayton Bank and Ayton Monument ironstone mines were operational.

The mine is accessed via a tight tunnel with a water pipe down the center.
Hunters Scar Jet Mine, Great Ayton Hunters Scar Jet Mine, Great Ayton

Inside the mine has concrete dividers storing deep pools of water, and a ladder leading vertically into the woodlands above.
Hunters Scar Jet Mine, Great AytonHunters Scar Jet Mine, Great AytonHunters Scar Jet Mine, Great Ayton

The ladders look very unsafe so its best to back track through the tunnel and look for them in the woods.

Hunters Scar Jet Mine, Great Ayton Hunters Scar Jet Mine, Great Ayton