Show on mapThis trig point has been given a coat of paint and adopted as a memorial to Cleveland Ironstone Miners, its position does actually give a view of a large number of mines.
I’ve been unable to located any information on who did this, but have seen photos of it unpainted and in a hedge in 2009, theres also an impressive new cairn.
Some useful details have been provided by Dave Walsh :-
I have done some local digging and have found that the cairn and the plaque on the old trig point was the work of a guy called Fred Ramage from Beechcroft, Stanghow. I don’t know him myself, but I was told the cairn was a labour of love, using old stonework from some abandoned walls in the area, and that Fred both lugged the heavy stonework up to the hill top and erected the memorial. It seems the OS were happy for the plaque and the paintwork on the trig point, as they do not use them now, relying instead on aerial surveys and GPS. As I said I do not know Fred. However, I feel his work needs some celebration, and hopefully this site can provide it.
I’ll have to do a revisit.
It was getting quite overgrown 2 years ago and the flush bracket was difficult to photograph.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tomlevell/tags/lowhousefarm/
Feel free to use my trig photos on this blog for no commercial gain etc etc.
Thanks for the link, i’m yet to make 1p out of running this website since 2007 so I think we’re safe 🙂
Having read Simon’s great books on the subject of ironstone mining, you get to realise how dangerous the job actually was. In some cases injuries and death was an almost daily occurence so it is fitting a memorial has been built.
I have done some local digging and have found that the cairn and the plaque on the old trig point was the work of a guy called Fred Ramage from Beechcroft, Stanghow. I don’t know him myself, but I was told the cairn was a labour of love, using old stonework from some abandoned walls in the area, and that Fred both lugged the heavy stonework up to the hill top and erected the memorial. It seems the OS were happy for the plaque and the paintwork on the trig point, as they do not use them now, relying instead on aerial surveys and GPS. As I said I do not know Fred. However, I feel his work needs some celebration, and hopefully this site can provide it.