boxfrenzy
02-11-2009, 06:05 PM
High above the picturesque village of Grassington is a bleak and desolate moor, where, back in the 15th Century, the monks of Fountains Abbey worked a smelt mill. Later, in the 18th and 19th century, this place became pretty busy.
This is the backfilled entrance to Barretts Incline. Carved above the entrance is the year it was built. Horse drawn tubs would have been drawn to the surface here.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2537/4068800120_9e7f0b5338.jpg
I'd imagine that with a spade, you could get through that. How do they stop kids from doing that? Forget security, Herras or triple prong. Simply dump a load of intestines and other internal organs down there.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2446/4068047271_8d6302889e.jpg
Much of the landscape is pitted with bell pits and disused mine shafts.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2655/4068789214_b787212ea5.jpg
A poor view looking down one of the shafts. Apologies for the almost gynecological shot
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2565/4068789416_febba83dcd.jpg
Up here is the remains of the winding house. This building originally housed the waterwheel used to pump out flooded levels. In the 1960's the building was used as part of a washing house to wash waste materials to retrieve barytes for the chemical industry.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2563/4068036051_54f010fe36.jpg
All over the landscape as you get higher are these.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2744/4068791142_b84cfd729e.jpg
Inside, the lead ore has discoloured the water
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2625/4068036593_7e18b35455.jpg
These are part of the flues which come from the big chimney. These are small tunnels that run underground.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3525/4068792522_09625ce09f.jpg
The total length of the flues on Grassington Moor is 1.7 km. It is the most complex system of flues in the Yorkshire Dales
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2464/4068796516_f7cf9fe243.jpg
The earth covering the stone arches help keep the flues airtight.Lead fume from the smelt mill settled on the side of the chimney and was regularly washed out of the flues.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2662/4068043155_6e650c37cd.jpg
The waste lead ended up in the settling ponds near the end of the flue which were eventually emptied and scraped out to recover the lead.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2434/4068794098_c880cf492d.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2533/4068040853_27a3dfc855.jpg
More flue action, heading closer to the chimney
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2600/4068797506_bc947cdbba.jpg
Parts of the roof had fallen in in parts, in other stretches, the tunnels remained pretty intact.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2470/4068042569_4f850c1a31.jpg
Climbing out, I was now pretty near the chimney. You can see the flue running up to the chimney.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3487/4068798026_f60587e095.jpg
A view inside the chimney looking upwards. I'm not sure what the wooden platform is.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2681/4068798828_bd957113cc.jpg
Next to the chimney is the remains of a disused chemical works, which may (or may not) have had a use during the second world war. The area up here was also used for military training, and walkers in the past regularly used to find hand-grenades:w00t Many of these were dropped "harmlessly" into the River Wharfe by the Police when they had been handed in to them.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2570/4068799306_241dfb90bb.jpg
You would like this place. And if you have kids, they might like it as well.
This is the backfilled entrance to Barretts Incline. Carved above the entrance is the year it was built. Horse drawn tubs would have been drawn to the surface here.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2537/4068800120_9e7f0b5338.jpg
I'd imagine that with a spade, you could get through that. How do they stop kids from doing that? Forget security, Herras or triple prong. Simply dump a load of intestines and other internal organs down there.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2446/4068047271_8d6302889e.jpg
Much of the landscape is pitted with bell pits and disused mine shafts.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2655/4068789214_b787212ea5.jpg
A poor view looking down one of the shafts. Apologies for the almost gynecological shot
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2565/4068789416_febba83dcd.jpg
Up here is the remains of the winding house. This building originally housed the waterwheel used to pump out flooded levels. In the 1960's the building was used as part of a washing house to wash waste materials to retrieve barytes for the chemical industry.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2563/4068036051_54f010fe36.jpg
All over the landscape as you get higher are these.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2744/4068791142_b84cfd729e.jpg
Inside, the lead ore has discoloured the water
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2625/4068036593_7e18b35455.jpg
These are part of the flues which come from the big chimney. These are small tunnels that run underground.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3525/4068792522_09625ce09f.jpg
The total length of the flues on Grassington Moor is 1.7 km. It is the most complex system of flues in the Yorkshire Dales
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2464/4068796516_f7cf9fe243.jpg
The earth covering the stone arches help keep the flues airtight.Lead fume from the smelt mill settled on the side of the chimney and was regularly washed out of the flues.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2662/4068043155_6e650c37cd.jpg
The waste lead ended up in the settling ponds near the end of the flue which were eventually emptied and scraped out to recover the lead.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2434/4068794098_c880cf492d.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2533/4068040853_27a3dfc855.jpg
More flue action, heading closer to the chimney
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2600/4068797506_bc947cdbba.jpg
Parts of the roof had fallen in in parts, in other stretches, the tunnels remained pretty intact.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2470/4068042569_4f850c1a31.jpg
Climbing out, I was now pretty near the chimney. You can see the flue running up to the chimney.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3487/4068798026_f60587e095.jpg
A view inside the chimney looking upwards. I'm not sure what the wooden platform is.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2681/4068798828_bd957113cc.jpg
Next to the chimney is the remains of a disused chemical works, which may (or may not) have had a use during the second world war. The area up here was also used for military training, and walkers in the past regularly used to find hand-grenades:w00t Many of these were dropped "harmlessly" into the River Wharfe by the Police when they had been handed in to them.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2570/4068799306_241dfb90bb.jpg
You would like this place. And if you have kids, they might like it as well.