Joyce Dobson loaned us this rather good photo of the alum house at Hummersea all the others I have seen the house has been in ruins.
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Maybe I would ’cos I am nosey, it’s the entrance to the alum mine on Hummersea beach. Chris Twigg tells us: ”Rather than a mine, it was connected by a shaft to the Alum House on the cliff top. Presumably to allow the transportation of goods in and out.The alum shale was actually been quarried on the cliff top to the west.”
At one time well used tracks but now rusting and decaying, but what brick work on that tunnel, believed to have been built in the 17th century.
You can almost smell the damp in this part of the tunnel, I wonder who were the last workers here, anyone got any photographs of the alum workers?
Doesn’t fill you with confidence to go much farther into the tunnel does it?
Looks like some climbing to do to get any farther into the tunnel.
I don’t know how far in the tunnel these people went but here it is blocked by a fall of rock.
Yes I like this photo and that is why I published it taken from inside the alum tunnel.
A view from the cliff looking down on the alum house at Hummersea. Thanks to Tina Dowey for the loan of this card that was posted in 1907.
A long walk by Hummersea farm to get to this beach, but well worth it, as we can see frequented by local people. I never knew what the ruins were, can anyone out there help? (The ruins were the remains of the old alum house associated with Hummersea Alum Mine – Rodders) |
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