Out & About …

… on the North York Moors, or wherever I happen to be.

Day: 17 December 2018

  • Tocketts Ironstone Mine Ventilation Shaft

    Tocketts Ironstone Mine Ventilation Shaft

    Hidden away on the steep wooded slopes of Tocketts Beck, a reminder of the Cleveland ironstone boom. A ventilation shaft with a tall, rather precarious looking chimney built to aid the updraft just above where a Public Footpath crosses the beck. The mine was a short-lived venture lasting for just nine years from 1880 although…