tarboat's photos with the keyword: brassington

Hoben International is owned by Goodwin PLC and is the UK’s largest processor of ground silica flours. These silos are at their Brassington site adjacent to the former Cromford and High peak Railway opposite Harboro Rocks. Silica flours are used in a wide cross-section of applications inducing refractory products, construction products, drilling muds, glass fibre manufacture and many more applications. Products and Services within the Hoben International portfolio include silica flours, fire mortars, specialist blends concrete and grouts, non-ferrous foundry moulding plasters.

Below Harboro Rocks in the High Peak of Derbyshire stand the remains of a mill for processing silica sands and iron oxides which were used in the production of paints and the former also for refractory bricks. Little is known about this particular plant and it has been suggested that it never went into production.

Remains of British Thompson Houston electrical switchgear in the substation for the WWII mineral mill at Harboro Rocks near Brassington.

This vent is in the outer wall of the substation for the silica grinding works just below Harboro Rocks, Brassington, Derbyshire. It is marked "COWELLS SANATORIUM VENTILATOR" and I can find no trace of the manufacturer.

This mobile radar unit was operating in the car park of Hoben Minerals at Harboro Rocks, Brassington in the Peak District. What I want to know is why it was there?

Whilst out and about in the White Peak of Derbyshire we found this Southern Hawker ( Aeshna cyanea ) dodging the showers at Harboro Rocks near Brassington. On returning an hour or so later he had flown off.

Below Harboro Rocks in the High Peak of Derbyshire stand the remains of a mill for processing silica sands and iron oxides which were used in the production of paints and the former also for refractory bricks.

The draw tunnel of the limekiln at Astonhill is built with large gritstone blocks. At the draw hole end the stonework is blackened with soot from the firing.

Whilst driving to Cromford on a route I have used many times, I was surprised to spot a limekiln alongside the road that I had never noticed before. On the way back I stopped for a look. It is an eighteenth century intermittent kiln in quite good condition considering its age. The pot is lined with sandstone as is the draw tunnel. To the left is the small quarry that supplied the stone.