Out & About …

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

Day: 10 October 2021

  • Belman Bank

    Belman Bank

    Around a decade ago, felling on Belman Bank — ‘Beautiful Mountain’ — revealed the great bowl left by Thomas Chaloner’s alum works, said to be the first in Yorkshire. The manufacture of crystals of alum, used in waterproofing hides and in medicinal products, from the alum shales in the Upper Lias beds is a complicated…