timbarberApr 3, 20215 min readA desolate past industrial lead mining landscape – a loop walk from GunnersideWith the stay at home restriction being released on the previous Monday, I was desperate to get out and back up to the Yorkshire Dales....
timbarberApr 14, 20203 min readTitus Salt - How Alpaca and Donskoi wool lead to his successIndustrialist Titus Salt will forever be remembered as a Yorkshire industrialist who pioneered the use of the model village for his...
timbarberMar 26, 20205 min readAlum production on the Yorkshire Coast - why 200,000 tonnes of urine were transported to Yorkshire!Alum has been mentioned throughout history from Egyptian, Indian and Chinese dynasties all Before Christ. It had many uses in chemistry,...