East Cleveland's Industrial Heartland

A Heritage Lottery Funded project to discover, catalogue, promote and conserve industrial heritage across East Cleveland

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    • Spa Ironstone Mine
    • Spa Wood Ironstone Mine
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  • Local Industry
    • Loftus Alum Works
    • Ruston Hornsby Loco at North Skelton
    • Cleveland Ironstone Mine Shaft Depths
    • Alum Works in the Project Area
    • The Alum Industry of North-East Yorkshire
    • Selby Hagg and Saltburn Alum Works
    • History in Old Bricks
    • Is there a mine under my house ?
    • Skelton Ironstone Mines Map
    • Mining subsidence on Skelton High Street
    • Birk Brow damaged by subsidence
  • Activities
    • 3D modelling of mine remains
    • 3D Photogrammetry
    • Skelton Beck 3D Modelling
    • Small Mammal Surveying
    • Environmental Impacts of Ironstone Mining
    • Mine water discharges and invertebrate testing
  • People and Community
    • Ironstone Mining Songs
    • Upleatham (New Marske) Miners Payslip 1889
    • Closing of the Boosbeck Mines – 1887 – 1200 jobless.
    • Lingdale Ironstone Miners early 60s – Can you name any ?
    • Ironstone Miners Lodges and Banners
    • Kilton Pit Bravery Award 1956
    • Abraham Gray – South Skelton Manager
    • Cleveland Ironstone Bibles – Do you have one ??
    • Fred Appleton – Skelton Park Miner
    • Childhood Memories of Park Pit & It’s Miners by Les Haywood
    • Famine Stricken Cleveland – London Daily News 1892
  • Cleveland Ironstone Story
    • Part 1 – What is Ironstone ?
    • Part 2 – Where are the mines ?
    • Part 3 – Bord and Pillar Working
    • Part 4 – Ventilation
  • Miners Graves
    • St Nicholas Guisborough, Miners Grave
    • Marske Miners Graves
    • Guisborough Miners Graves
    • Kirkleatham Miners Graves

Month: July 2017

Skelton History Group – Valley of Industry Walk

20th July 20173rd April 2017 Chris Twigg Leave a comment News

Sunday: July 23rd – Valley of Industry – Duration 3-3½ hours Meet at 10:30am in the car park area on the north side of the road through the valley, on the site of the old shale tip (NZ 652 156), opposite Margrove Caravan Park. This what I call a “frying pan” walk: a stretch of […]

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Spa Wood Fatality – Sidney Frank Ord – 20 Jul 1914

20th July 201728th February 2017 Chris Twigg 2 Comments This Day in History

 Aged 20, Labourer, deceased was assisting to repair the road, at a curve, on a tramway leading to the shale tip; he foolishly stood inside the curve as a full set went up; the last tub got off the way and fouled a roller, with the result that the sudden strain on the rope pulled […]

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Skelton Park Fatality – William Ord – 19 Jul 1880

19th July 20173rd April 2017 Chris Twigg 1 Comment This Day in History

Aged 41, Shifter, fall of stone in main return; while removing some stone another fall took place from the roof which had been previously examined, Buried: Skelton Cemetery

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Spa Fatality – Samuel Miller – 14 Jul 1881

14th July 201728th February 2017 Chris Twigg 2 Comments This Day in History

Aged 33, Miner, while barrings down stone it drew a prop which struck his head

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3D Photogrammetry

10th July 201710th July 2017 Chris Twigg 2 Comments News

Since the start of the project we’ve been learning how to get a good set of photos for producing 3D models via photogrammetry . As practice we took over 500 photographs of the Zetland Lifeboat in Redcar, learning which areas the software had trouble interpreting. Zetland Side by Chris Twigg on Sketchfab   A fireplace at Skelton […]

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Skelton Park Fatality – William Garbutt – 02 Jul 1912

2nd July 20171st March 2017 Chris Twigg 1 Comment This Day in History

Aged 28, Miner, he and his mate were driving a lift out of a split wall which had holed; they had only got some 6 feet in, but the crossing timber being set, and the place well timbered, Garbutt fired his two bottom shots, one after the other, and had gone back to examine after […]

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