This brick-built Lime Kiln is the survivor of ten kilns built in a limestone quarry adjacent to the Bourne to Saxby Railway which was opened shortly after the railway was finished in 1893.

It is 7m high and has a single charging hole accessible from the top of the bank which it is built into.

The quarry is believed to have closed in 1960 and the kiln is one of very few surviving in Lincolnshire.

See: Stewart Squires, Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, 45 (2010), pp 36-39.

The former entrance to Grundy's No 1 ironstone mine, between Crofton Road and Greetwell Road in Lincoln.

This adit was in use from about 1904 and the mine had closed by 1920.

The mine has collapsed and the entrance has been sealed.

Stewart Squires

A dragline at work in the opencast iron ore mines.

DB 1980 

Frodingham Iron Works was established in 1864, to be joined by five other iron making companies in the Scunthorpe area by the end of the century.

In 1912 they absorbed the Appleby Ironworks to form the largest iron and steel making company in the area.

undated postcard by Arjay

The iron making process, the heart of the steel works.  Two blast furnaces are shown.

1930s photograph

Unidentified and undated photograph of steelworks in Scunthorpe.

David Robinson Collection

The square of concrete covers the Walesby Shaft, off Walesby Hill (TF143 932).

It was sunk by the Frodingham Iron and Steel Company in about 1919.

The scrub covered mound behind is the spoil removed from the 175 feet deep shaft. From the foot a tunnel was driven horizontally for some 217 feet.

Although beds of ironstone were proved they were very contorted and no mine went into production as a result.

Stewart Squires

The plaque on the millstone reads :-

"2009 Welcome to Wellingore Windmill Field, the site of the Parish's former limestone quarry and working windmill. 

This structure commemorates the fundamental roles played by the quarry and the windmill in Wellingore's industrial and cultural history.

It also introduces a new role for this historic site.

The millstone was located at an old mill nearby and the supporting limestone blocks come from the quarry at Metheringham. 

The original 18th century windmill was a two storey building with five more floors added in 1854.

It was a working mill until the late 1930s and lost its sails during WWII when it was considered too much of a landmark for the Luftwaffe.

The quarry mined stone mainly for use in building and road repair.

It was closed, filled in and grassed over in the mid 1960s. 

The field belongs to the Parish and has been transformed into both a recreational amenity and a habitat in which local wildlife can thrive.

The Parish Council are most grateful for the generous financial donations from outside agencies and the hard work given freely by Parish residents, without which this project would not have been possible"

DB 29 October 2019