Remains of vaulted ovens near Massey's Forge
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Remains of vaulted ovens near Massey's Forge
Image: © Andrew Curtis Taken: 24 Feb 2012
The kilns are built of fire-bricks bricks marked ‘E & M', the Emerson and Milner trademark, also made after 1850 by William Cochrane Carr. It is not known whether they are the two Newcastle kilns known to be at Milner's Yard, used for burning gas retorts in 1863, and at that time, part of Cowen's business; or earlier coke ovens, of the rare ‘long oven’ type, which may have been associated with Massey’s Forge steel works.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.964912
Longitude
-1.722895