Cowark: View of theLime Kiln and Road Bridge

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iBase ID

269552

Reference identifier

ECL20140107002

Title

Cowark: View of theLime Kiln and Road Bridge

General notes

The image shows the road from Clitheroe curving to meet the road junction that serv.es as the centre of the Hamlet of Cowark. It is below this bridge that the image ECL20140107001/269551 was taken.
To the right is a lime kiln. These structures, introduced by the Romans, were once numerous but now much less seen, after the Industrial Revolution, especially the mass production of lime in the 19th Century. The kiln in the image currently survives (2022). They were used by communities to bake limestone - freely available in this part of Lancashire - to a temperature of c 900 degrees - to break it down to make fertiliser, whitewash, mortar and other essentials.

Medium

Glass slide, positive

Colour

Monochrome

Original image size

7.19 x 4.62

Year of image

c1900

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Locator

Box B 7A/2

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