Show on map 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”
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.
Show on map Carrs Tilery operated from 1867 until 1879, they produced land drains, pipes, tiles and bricks used by the Skelton Estate and the local ironstone mines. Its also believe they produced the bricks for the houses at Margrove Park.
The remains of two kilns are visible, one just consists of a few remains of walls.
 
A second is much more complete and heaps of tiles can also be found in the undergrowth.
 
 
The rest of the site is private property, although a chimney can be seen above the trees and a building beside the adjacent railway line remains.
  
Show on map A large number of pits, usually just mounds but occasionally shafts (up to 160ft deep)Â capped with large stones are spread across the moorland between Clitherbeck Farm and Poverty Hill. Coal was worked here from the 16th century until the 1890s
 
A well next to Rose Cottage has ochreous mine water bubbling up from the nearby workings.
 
Show on map Rock Hole Alum Quarry was started by John Atherton of Skelton Castle in 1604 and was the earliest in the district and the first success works in the whole country.
 
Despite being idle from hundreds of years, little vegetation ever grows back.
Show on map Taken as the sun cast a shadow over them last autumn.
 
The left-hand incline leads to an 1895 western silica quarries, the more prominent right-hand incline leads to the 1919 main and eastern silica quarries.The remains of a quarry can clearly be seen in the hillside center-right.
The silica works was at the bottom of the right-hand incline where the road to Castleton passed under the Esk Valley Railway.
Show on map This small stretch of wall is built from the tuyeres, which allowed air into the Bessemer converters of the Eston Steelworks.
 
The railway that ran along the embankment served the Eston Ironstone mines.
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Show on map A short series of posts inspired by looking through my older printed photos, before going digital and before this website existed.
I’m afraid I don’t remember the date this happened, but I got informed about it due to my job. The general public however were unaware and it must have come as a big shock to the people driving down the Trunk Road that day.
I suspect it was this event recorded in a corporate report I found online.
The old Lackenby open hearth steelmaking building at Teesside, which was built in 1953, was demolished in 2004. The building contained over 20,000 tonnes of structural steel and cladding, which was then recycled at a rate of about 1,000 tonnes each week over a five-month period.
 
A friend of mine has the whole thing on video, which i’ve now got on YouTube (no sound unfortunately)
Show on map Although there ironstone workings in the immediate area and this looks like a drift I dont think it is.
I think this is more likely the location where the culvert from the Boulby Alum Works passed underneath the road on its way to the Alum House for processing.
The house is probably not original, although a wall in the garden at the edge of the cliff looks much older. The vertical shaft from the Boulby Alum Tunnel on the shore would emerge in the garden of this house were it still open.
Show on map Aislaby Quarry was a source of blockstones in the 17th and 18th Century for harbours such as Whitby, Margate and Ramsgate, and the Strand Bridge in London.
The blockstone was returned from the Whitby pier in 1964
 
The quarry reopened in 2002, I have read that in the 1970s the remains of a jet mines were also accessible, but the whole area seems to have been freshly opened up, so I doubt the current owners would take kindly to visitors searching for any remains.
 
Show on map Two large telecommunications cables land on the Stray between Redcar and Marske.
CANTAT-3 links to Canada, Iceland, Faroe Islands, Denark and Germany.
Pangea North links to Fanø in Denmark
On Google Earth they can be clearly seen to line up with two rows of large posts either side of the car park, which must have been placed to alert any rogue JCBs to their position.
 
