Abandoned
Feb 23, 2013 10:45:33 #
Two of these photo's show abandoned Mill stones (counted 22) left lying about high up in Upper Teesdale. They must have been there for a long time because a couple were just showing above ground. Below the Quarry was an old abandoned farmhouse with this rusting farm implement just left there!!
Feb 23, 2013 10:50:56 #
Who the heck rolled that stone up there?
Doddy wrote:
Two of these photo's show abandoned Mill stones (counted 22) left lying about high up in Upper Teesdale. They must have been there for a long time because a couple were just showing above ground. Below the Quarry was an old abandoned farmhouse with this rusting farm implement just left there!!
Feb 23, 2013 11:09:44 #
Any history behind them? Why were they abandoned? Seems like a lot of effort to make them only to leave them lying around.
Feb 23, 2013 11:32:55 #
I asked a local lad about them and even he couldn't fill me in as to who or why they were made, they must have been made for grinding some kind of corn but that area is mainly moorland fit only for rearing sheep. Anyway how the hell did they get them down (it was a steep and rough terrain all the way down) and the weight of them must have been in tons!...I doubt we will ever know. As an afterthought, perhaps they thought they had a market for them and then found it too difficult to transport them and just left them (I would love one of them in my garden!)
Feb 23, 2013 11:36:49 #
That was my guess - a keen entrepreneur who took a long time to realise the fundamental flaw in his business plan. :)
Feb 23, 2013 18:57:42 #
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