tarboat's photos with the keyword: frosterley

The second bank of limekilns at Bishopley Quarry, Frosterley, comprises five large continuous kilns that were one rail served. They have been out of use for over a century but remain in good condition.

The Sherburn Stone Company works this place in a low key manner to extract ornamental fossil-bearing limestone known as Frosterley Marble. This was also the site of Durham Industrial Minerals processing plant for fluorite from Groverake Mine until it closed in 1999.

Kiln top at one of the two banks of limekilns that served Bishopley Quarry, Frosterley. There are four kilns in one bank and five in the other.

Small roadside draw kiln close to Frosterley in County Durham.

This depression is the filled-in bowl of the limekiln close to Rogerley Hall, Frosterley. This is much safer than the many open kilns that can be found across Britain.

The Bishopley limestone quarries at Frosterley flourished during the nineteenth and first decades of the twentieth century. Closed by the 1940s, all that remains apart from the grassed over quarries are two massive banks of limekilns and this weighbridge building that once weighed the railway wagons into and out of the site.