StoneRoad2013's photos with the keyword: Lowca

This area of Lowca had a coal mine, seen on the hill behind (covered by the waste tips) and the Lowca Engineering Works and foundry either side of a small beck, on the shore line there appears to be a small, now silted up, dock. The beach has large amounts of foundry waste. This site had various companies who built bridges (eg at Ravenglass), iron ships (the first Iron ship launched fromCumbria - by the name of Lowca) and over 200 locomotives in total, firstly by Tulk & Ley (who built Cramptons for South Eastern Railway amongst others) who were taken over by Fletcher Jennings in 1857. (five of the latter company's products survive in the UK - including the eponymous Talyllyn at Towyn, Mid Wales - out of nine preserved, mostly narrow guage except Captain Baxter, which Standard gauge). There was a disastrous fire in 1912 and the company, by then "The New Lowca Engineering Co Ltd", was wound up in 1927 after over a decade in a moribund state. Information from various sources

Probably one of the smallest products from the Lowca foundry - a small flat iron. Being cast Iron, it would hold the heat and the weight would help smooth the item being pressed or ironed.

Looking towards Lowca - between the North Pier lighthouse and Redness Point - the area just above the shoreline was the site (now marked by the two tanks) on which the Fletcher Jennings locomotives were built.

There is a small inlet with the remains of a quay, just to the left of the two circular tanks on the right. The sloped area furthest to the left is the landscaped remains of a waste tip from a coal mine. Between that and the two tanks is the site of The Lowca Engineering Company - in the form of "Fletcher Jennings" they built almost 200 locomotives and other iron products between 1857 and 1912. some more info here : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fletcher,_Jennings_%26_Co .

View from Parton sea front car park, looking across to Lowca - behind the left hand pair of tanks is the site of the "Fletcher Jennings loco works" - the Cumbrian coast railway runs along the base of the cliffs and across in front of the houses and behind the camera position.