ria chimney - all that remains of the foundry
In itself a pleasing chimney, characteristic of the region with the band around the top.
The local iron ore has particular qualities so that back in the day of small scale exploitation it was valued. The foundry was certainly running throughout and beyond the Hitler War and the hillsides of the valley in which we live are littered with the remains of narrow gauge railtracks and ariel cableways as the forest was heavily exploited to fuel the foundry. For this reason the present forest , although extensive, is not that old, having been replanted in the last fifty or sixty years or so.
ria chimney - all that remains of the foundry
In itself a pleasing chimney, characteristic of the region with the band around the top.
The local iron ore has particular qualities so that back in the day of small scale exploitation it was valued. The foundry was certainly running throughout and beyond the Hitler War and the hillsides of the valley in which we live are littered with the remains of narrow gauge railtracks and ariel cableways as the forest was heavily exploited to fuel the foundry. For this reason the present forest , although extensive, is not that old, having been replanted in the last fifty or sixty years or so.