{"id":53806,"date":"2016-10-13T15:47:50","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T14:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=53806"},"modified":"2023-01-03T20:21:45","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T20:21:45","slug":"snilah-ponds-at-hummersea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=53806","title":{"rendered":"Snilah Ponds at Hummersea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53711\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/PC0050.jpg\" alt=\"Snilah ponds at Hummersea\" width=\"800\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/PC0050.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/PC0050-300x187.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/PC0050-482x300.jpg 482w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/PC0050-150x93.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/PC0050-400x249.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Entitled &#8216;The Cliffs, Loftus this postcard view over Hummersea farm and towards Boulby gives an excellent view of \u201dSnilah ponds\u201d were believed to have been the settling ponds for Hummersea Alum works. Alas no longer visible, they were &#8216;filled-in&#8217; in more recent times; older residents of Loftus have happy memories of looking for newts and similar wildlife in the ponds in their youth, happy days! Peter Appleton has updated our knowledge with: &#8220;No, not settling ponds for the alum works. There exists, among the Zetland papers at North Yorkshire County Record Office a sketch map (Ref.: ZNK\/V\/3\/8\/808) dated 8th April 1807 showing the arrangement for a system of drains and ditches to collect water and feed it into \u201cSnarley Pond\u201d. The outflow from the pond was shown as a \u201cNew Conductor for the water to the Alum House\u201d. This was shown heading off in the direction of the Alum House complex on the beach at Hummersea. That Alum House complex was commissioned during the winter of 1809\/10. The water was being gathered from source points all along the fields that lay adjacent to the cliff top and those to the south of the track that leads from present-day Hummersea House past Warren House and on towards Gallihowe.&#8221; Tom Sayers also remarks: &#8220;Famous for gold crested newts; Norman Lantsbery allowed the new Potash to fill in these historic ponds in exchange for widening the lane from Loftus to Street Houses. This would be a criminal offence today&#8221;.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Image and update courtesy of Peter Appleton; also thanks to Brian Pierce and Tom Sayers for the updates.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Entitled &#8216;The Cliffs, Loftus this postcard view over Hummersea farm and towards Boulby gives an excellent view of \u201dSnilah ponds\u201d were believed to have been the settling ponds for Hummersea Alum works. Alas no longer visible, they were &#8216;filled-in&#8217; in more recent times; older residents of Loftus have happy memories of looking for newts [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boulby-easington-and-grinkle","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53806"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73070,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53806\/revisions\/73070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}