Out & About …

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

Day: 4 February 2019

  • Roseberry Ironstone Mine

    Roseberry Ironstone Mine

    It would have been bleak for the folk of Great Ayton on this day in 1921 when the 220 workers at the Roseberry Ironstone Mine received notice to cease work, at the end of which the mine would be idle. It would have been the talk of the village. The mine had reopened in 1906…