A busy day at Rosedale works I am informed that the west works started in 1857 and the east side in 1859. Simon Chapman advises: ”This is a view of the Rosedale East Mines in the 1920s. Central in the picture is a chute for loading ironstone direct into railway wagons, while in the background, behind the white hut, a gantry spans the railway; this was the apparatus for recovering the calcine dust from below the iron-fronted or New Kilns. The wagons in the foreground are empty tubs from out of the pit. Right in the background, behind the ramshackle tipping huts, can be seen the cottages and workshops at High Baring. The Rosedale West Mines opened in the mid-1850s and the East Mines about 1865.”
Image courtesy of Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum, grateful thanks to Simon Chapman for the dating information.
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