2015

NZ7120 : Skinningrove

taken 9 years ago, near to Skinningrove, Redcar And Cleveland, England

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Skinningrove
Skinningrove
Skinningrove is a down to earth, industrialised village in a steep sided valley on the Yorkshire Coast. The name is derived from old Scandinavian: skinnari means a tanner and gryfa means a steep sided wooded valley. A tannery was recorded there in the 13th century. By 1614 ‘jeators’ were collecting jet on the beach, probably for sale to carvers in Whitby. But by the mid 19th century industry was set to accelerate. 1840 saw the discovery of the main ironstone seam. Extraction began soon after, exporting the ore to the Bolchow & Vaughan Iron Works at Witton Park in County Durham. In 1874 Skinningrove had a pair of its own blast furnaces filling the air with smoke and sulphurous fumes. The slope on which I am standing is made entirely of slag which was dumped still hot and smoking over the cliff. Nowadays fulmars nest on the slag cliffs. On the cliffs in the distance on the sites of major alum production which gave off its own particular smells and fumes.

The mine closed in 1958; it is now a museum devoted to the ironstone industry. The blast furnaces have long closed replaced by a rolling mill which is still working. In 1973 Kilton Beck which flows down the valley ran bright orange with minerals from the ironstone workings. One of my first jobs when I moved to North Yorkshire as a rookie quantity surveyor was on the civil engineering plant to filter and clean up the beck. They had to have a second attempt a few years back but I read now that salmon and sea trout have returned to the beck.

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Geographical Context: Coastal Village, Rural settlement Primary Subject: Village other tags: Village Coast Valley Beach Cliffs Click a tag, to view other nearby images.
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Skinningrove Beck [20] · Skinningrove Beach [19] · Iron Works [7] · Ironstone [3] · Rolling Mill [3] Title Clusters: · Skinningrove [2] ·
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NZ7120, 155 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Mick Garratt   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Thursday, 10 December, 2015   (more nearby)
Submitted
Thursday, 10 December, 2015
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NZ 7139 2004 [10m precision]
WGS84: 54:34.2331N 0:53.8362W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NZ 7115 2012
View Direction
East-southeast (about 112 degrees)
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