
This old flue winds up the moorland for a mile or so. It went from the smelt mill on Grassington moor to the chimney, but the lead mines shut 160 years ago so it is no longer used. Children were employed to crawl up the hot flue and sweep the lead deposits from the sides, the deposits mixed with arsenic and other poisons would hasten an early death.










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