A lovely picture of the walls of Kilton Castle courtesy of Ray Brown who thinks it was taken in the late 70’s. Was that when Leeds University used to come in the summer to excavate there? I wish I could have seen it in all it’s glory.
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This lovely photo courtesy of Ray Brown shows the castle wall from the other side. Were these just a lookout post or were they there to shoot the arrows through?
This postcard is a lovely example of early colour photography. The original was posted in Loftus on July 30, 1905.
I don’t think you could see it like this now as it is so over grown all around it, but a lovely photo. (photo courtesy of Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum)
Another hand-tinted picture postcard. Not so much the castle but the ruins of what must have been a beautiful castle, not as much can be seen today as it is difficult to find in the undergrowth with brambles and nettles covering what remains.
Once the impregnable stronghold of the De Thweng’s, Kilton Castle fell into disuse when Lucy De Thweng married and went to live at Skelton Castle (not the neo-Gothic building that now occupies the site of the old Skelton Castle). Even less of this castle exists today, despite its Ancient Monument status. Another from the book of views of Loftus.
Kilton woods on one side of the valley and Whitecliffe woods and Glover’s Path on the other side with the beck running between. The children seem to be having a great time in the beck
An idyllic rural image, just to show that the Loftus area wasn’t all Ironstone Pits and Smelters – well most of it was!
You can see from this much earlier image how light and open the valley was originally. I wonder if the viaduct had been built with arched spans whether the problem would still have manifested itself. I’d need an engineer to tell me – is there an engineer in the house?
A beautiful valley and an elegant structure, before the viaduct became unstable and was filled in with waste from the mine to create an embankment. |
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