Iron Ladle and Scale Car, Kirkleatham Museum

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Hidden away in a staff car park and with no information board.

Iron was poured into this vessel and taken to the caster plant and tipped into “pigs

Kirkleatham Old Hall Musuem  Kirkleatham Old Hall Musuem

The other unusual item is apparently a scale car from the Cleveland Iron Plant. It picked up the charge for the blast furnace before dumping it in the furnace hopper cars.

Kirkleatham Old Hall Musuem Kirkleatham Old Hall Musuem

The “Old Hall” museum itself is always worth a visit, although it was actually the Free School built in 1709 perhaps by William Wakefield or Robert Hooke

Kirkleatham Old Hall Kirkleatham Old Hall

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