Lumsdale
Matlock, Derbyshire. Wed 23 Oct 2019
The view looking down the falls
This was not a good place to suffer vertigo and I had to move back
and look upstream and at some of the ruined mill buildings
before going back for more pictures - I had earlier photographed
from where the person in red is standing
I continued upstream
A single stone bleaching vessel
Pictures show the effect of different shutter speeds on the waterfall
!/30, 1/8
and 1/250. I think the faster speed gives a more natural effect
Water pours over the dam of the Lower Pond
The Lower Pond built in the 1850s has been restored several times,
most recently in 2014
The cottages above the pond were once the site of a lead smelter
The Middle Pond was created in the 1780s. It had become silted up
and was restored in 2014
The top dam was built in 1785, but burst after heavy snowfall melted
in 1947
This was the site of the oldest mill in Lumsdale, a former lead smelting
mill which was converted to a bone mill
around 1600. Bones were heated and then crushed to be used as pigments.
The mill only closed in 1920.
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