A view of Glaisdale, but not as we know it! This postcard is dated 29th. January 1872. Eric Johnson tells us: ”an interesting view of the short-lived Glaisdale Ironworks. Three blast furnaces with barrow hoist can be seen, moving left the blast engine house with boiler chimney, then the trestle bridge of the mineral railway which ran up Glaisdale Rigg to ironstone quarries. The smaller chimney was part of the shaft sunk to the small seam. Like the Runswick Bay Ironworks was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
The ill-fated ”Paddy Waddell’s Railway” more properly known as The Cleveland Mineral Extension Railway was originally intended to join this Ironworks at Glaisdale to the Teesside furnaces, the rest is history.
Image courtesy of Olive Bennett & Joyce Dobson and thanks to Eric Johnson for the update.
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