James Elkington

The Cupola Flue on Grassington Moor Yorkshire

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Grassington Moor

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.

Rocking Hall

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Four miles across Barden moor in North Yorkshire, and miles from anywhere is these two deserted buildings with a ‘rocking stone’ between them.

My two grandsons playing on the stone, trying to make it rock – it didn’t!