This set of images are from a family walk which took place on "Boxing Day" (the 26th December). The weather was rather foggy, though in some parts of the walk it could have been low cloud, certainly not a day to linger with photography in mind.
Given the conditions we only had a short walk to have a look at the remains of Rosedale East Ironstone mines. These mines were working from around 1860 to 1929, with the Iron Ore originally being transported by pack horses to a town called Pickering from there on by rail to the blast Furnaces.
Later a standard gauge railway was constructed to link the mines to the furnaces on Teeside and also in County Durham. Our walk was on a small part of the trackbed of the railway.
I hope you enjoy joining in on the short walk
#1 There's a Hole in my roof (I know it should be a bucket) Dear Liza
#2 Do you know any good roofers please said the Noisy Cockerel
#3 Thinking about a new Vehicle Girls?
#4 Maybe not it's a left hand drive!
#5 Hurry up you lot I'm ready for my lunch
#6 SWMBO and the Hounds
#7 The remains of the Drift Mine entrance
#8 Remains of the Calcining Kilns, in which the Iron Ore was roasted to remove water and impurities to make it lighter to transport.
#9 Just for a sense of scale with the inclusion of the walking party
#10 A finally an image of some waste material from the ore roasting.